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Michigan Minds

Michigan Minds brings to life the wide-ranging faculty expertise at the University of Michigan. This series features quick yet informative analysis that provides unique perspectives on today’s top issues. U-M faculty are among the world’s leading researchers and teachers across all disciplines. Michigan Minds taps that thought leadership and shares this expertise with the world. It is produced by Michigan News, a division of the Office of the Vice President for Communications.

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Latest Episodes:

Fostering Innovation to Create Economic Growth for Companies and Communities Jan 03, 2022

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In this episode of Michigan Minds, Director of the Economic Growth Institute (EGI) Steve Wilson explains how EGI works with businesses and communities to help them navigate challenges and create positive economic impact. He also discusses difficulties they are preparing to help organizations face in the new year and emphasizes how important students are to helping conduct research on equitable economic growth.

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Influence and Impact: Kids and Social Media Dec 19, 2021

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This episode of Michigan Minds features Jenny Radesky, MD, a developmental/behavioral pediatrician and assistant professor at Michigan Medicine. Radesky's research focuses on how the parent-child relationship and digital media use interact to shape child social-emotional outcomes. Radesky emphasizes the importance of research surrounding digital media and its influence on youth as it continues to evolve. She also highlights the significance of creating relationships with young adults and children where honest conversations about social media can be had.

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Facilitating Community Outreach Through Linguistics Research Dec 13, 2021

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Teresa Satterfield, PhD, is a linguist and professor of Spanish and romance languages in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. She is also the director of a community outreach and academic Saturday school called En Nuestra Lengua, which means ‘in our language’ in Spanish. Satterfield joined the Michigan Minds podcast to discuss En Nuestra Lengua, how it helps bilingual children, and how she facilitates community engagement work.

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Michigan's Economic Recovery and Forecast for the New Year Dec 06, 2021

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In this episode of Michigan Minds, Gabriel Ehrlich, PhD, Director of U-M’s Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics (RSQE), discusses the economic recovery in Michigan as well as the economic forecasts for the US and Michigan economies. Ehrlich's research focuses primarily on macro and regional economics, and economic forecasting.

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How Self Compassion Helps Leaders and Teams Nov 29, 2021

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Susan Ashford, the Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professorship in Management and Organization at the Ross School of Business, joins this episode of Michigan Minds to talk about her research, which aims to help people become maximally effective in their work settings, with an emphasis on self-leadership, proactivity, change from below, leadership, and its development.

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NAGPRA at U-M: Learning, Growing and Building Bridges Nov 22, 2021

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The Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was passed in 1990 to require museums and other institutions that receive federal funding to follow a process for transferring human remains and associated objects to the Indigenous peoples that have the legal right to them. The University of Michigan has an established set of policies and procedures to guide these efforts, and for the past decade Ben Secunda has been overseeing the project’s implementation.

Secunda joins Michigan Minds to explain the significance of NAGPRA, detail how transfers are conducted, and emphasize that this project is much more than federal compliance — it’s relationship building.

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Collaborative and Innovative Approaches to Mental Health Care for Veterans Nov 10, 2021

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In this episode of Michigan Minds, John McCarthy, PhD, talks about veterans’ mental health and suicide prevention — areas in which he has done extensive research. McCarthy is a research associate professor in the Michigan Medicine Department of Psychiatry, director of the Serious Mental Illness Treatment Resource and Evaluation Center at the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, and director of Data and Surveillance, Suicide Prevention Program at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Ann Arbor.

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How Law Students, Faculty Provide Free Legal Services To Veterans Nov 10, 2021

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Matthew Andres, clinical assistant professor of law at Michigan Law, joined Michigan Minds to discuss the services available to veterans in Michigan through the Veterans Legal Clinic (VLC). Andres is the director of the VLC, and in this episode he outlines the ways that Michigan Law students have helped veterans with civil court cases, how tough it can be for veterans to transition out of the military, and how veterans can receive free legal assistance from the clinic.

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What the 'Lyme wars' Can Teach Us About COVID-19 Controversies Oct 22, 2021

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This episode of Michigan Minds features Abigail Anne Dumes, PhD, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. Dumes discusses her recent article for The Conversation about the 'Lyme wars' and what we can learn and how we can find common ground in the COVID-19 debates about schools reopening.

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Pioneering Learning and Weather-Related Tools Oct 13, 2021

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In this episode of Michigan Minds, U-M professor of climate and space sciences and of engineering and 2021 Distinguished University Innovator Award winner Perry Samson, PhD, discusses the series of pioneering learning and weather-related tools and technologies he helped develop and the successful companies he launched around them.

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