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March 21, 2017 |
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The Senate Assembly on Monday elected three faculty members to fill seats on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, the executive arm of U-M’s faculty governance system. Elected to three-year terms were Joy Beatty of UM-Dearborn, Sami Malek of the Medical School, and Neil Marsh of LSA and the Medical School.
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Conversations are the catalyst for an improved social climate. That was the premise for the second annual Students of Color & Police Dialogue on Saturday. The event provided an opportunity for students and law enforcement officers to freely express concerns they have about the social climate.
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A student team from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy has won the 2017 Social Impact Challenge. The team’s innovative and research-driven proposal addressed entrepreneurial development through downtown training and neighborhood outreach for the city of Flint.
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Crystal structures app
 Joanna Millunchick, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Presidential Bicentennial Professor and professor of materials science and engineering, is working to change the way people visualize crystal structures. In this video, Millunchick and her development partner, Duncan Abbot, CEO of Gwydion Inc., explain how an app that centers on virtual and augmented reality, technology more frequently used for video games, can create a new affordable platform that will be available to anyone worldwide with a printer and a smart phone.
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COMING EVENTS
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March 21
With Graham Beal, director emeritus of the DIA, 6:30-7:30 p.m., U-M Museum of Art
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IN THE NEWS
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Research by Julia Lippman, lecturer in communication studies, suggests that romantic-comedy films featuring men behaving in a stalker-like way can make women more likely to tolerate real-life obsessive behavior.
BBC
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“There are more (American) Indians alive today than there were a hundred years ago, but the popular representation is something back prior to the reservation. If we are making complex bids for self-determination, or tribal sovereignty, it doesn’t help us when the popular conception is that we wear feathers and grunt,” said Joseph Gone, professor of psychology and American culture, commenting on primitive depictions of Native Americans as sports team mascots.
Detroit Free Press
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Michael Rice, instructor in internal medicine and director of inpatient medicine gastroenterology, discussed the difference between food poisoning and stomach flu.
Time
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VICTORS FOR MICHIGAN
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A $10 problem doesn’t need a $1,000 solution. Take it from Stephen John, a Medical School student whose infant respirator invention has already garnered recognition and some funding, and could soon be helping premature newborns breathe easier across the developing world.
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