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April 5, 2017

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Golden Apple winner discusses life story to inspire students

During his ideal last lecture Monday, Golden Apple Award recipient Edward Cho urged students to leave their self-doubt behind, know they are good enough and to remember there is hope and light at the end of hardship and pain. The annual student award recognizes one faculty member for outstanding teaching.


Robert Ortega to chair faculty governance during coming year

Robert Ortega, professor of social work, will chair the university’s faculty governance system for 2017-18. The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, central faculty governance’s nine-member executive arm, approved Ortega by acclamation at its meeting Monday.


Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery announces $500K in grants

The Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery at U-M has announced its first round of grant recipients, with $500,000 earmarked for high-risk, high-reward initiatives with the potential to drive new advances in cancer research. Four grants were awarded to research teams representing multiple U-M schools and colleges.

Nanomaterials in 3-D

Knowledge of nanoscale materials — things 100 nanometers and smaller — is important for researchers designing semiconductors, metal alloys and other advanced materials of the future. Robert Hovden, assistant professor of materials science engineering, has helped develop a new open-source software platform that enables researchers to easily create 3-D images from electron tomography data, then share and manipulate those images in a single platform. In this video, Hovden describes the new platform and what it can do. Read more about Hovden’s work.

Michigan Medicine on 100 Great Hospitals in America list

Michigan Medicine is once again listed among Becker’s Hospital Review’s annual list of “100 Great Hospitals in America.” The list, which has been published since 2012 and has included Michigan Medicine every year, highlights hospitals that serve as industry leaders in innovation, quality patient care and clinical research.

COMING EVENTS

April 5

Michigan Past & Present

Exhibit profiling U-M’s first six students and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017, 7 a.m.-11 p.m. daily through Sunday, Michigan Union, Willis Ward Lounge

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IN THE NEWS

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Comments by Anna Kirkland, associate professor of women’s studies and political science, and associate director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, were featured in a story about how companies that make self-driving cars will deal with litigation.

Automotive News


“In a world where Obamacare is not going to be repealed and replaced, do you work to try to make it succeed, or do you take steps to undermine it in order to continue blaming President Obama and the Democrats for the dysfunction of the health care system? Right now we don’t know the answer, and we are getting conflicting signals from the administration,” said Nicholas Bagley, professor of law.

The Associated Press


Research by Eduardo Villamor, professor of epidemiology and research professor at the Center for Human Growth and Development, suggests that kids are more likely to develop childhood epilepsy if their mothers were overweight or obese early in pregnancy.

HealthDay

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VICTORS FOR MICHIGAN

The right combination

Jessica Hallgath has long held a passion for science and a love for volunteering. And as a volunteer at the Michigan Science Center in Detroit, the UM-Dearborn senior has had the opportunity to combine both interests and show others the happiness they bring.

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