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September 7, 2018 |
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Gmail is bringing a new look to users at U-M. Google’s email service has a brand new look on the web, additional features and new ways to manage work on the go. The switch will take place Sept. 18, although users can revert to “classic Gmail” for up to a month. “Classic Gmail” will not be available after Oct. 16.
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U-M ranked 28th overall in a list of universities throughout the United States, and No. 2 among public universities in the country. The rankings, announced Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education, focus on performance indicators for student success and learning.
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As students, faculty and staff kick off the new academic year, the Office of Student Life reminds the campus community that services previously located in the Michigan Union are fully functioning in temporary locations. The Union will remain closed for renovation until winter 2020.
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A new home for museum specimens
 Movers have finished hauling more than 20 million museum specimens from U-M’s zoology, paleontology and anthropology collections to a state-of-the-art collections and research facility. The specimens were moved to the university’s research museums complex on Varsity Drive, about five miles south of Central Campus. In this video, museum officials highlight some of the many specimens in museum collections.
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COMING EVENTS
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Sept. 7
With Ravi Pendse, vice president of information technology and CIO, and President Mark Schlissel, noon-1 p.m., Diag, Central Campus
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Sept. 8
U-M’s Asian/Pacific American Studies Program presents the first and only Asian-American dance rock band, 8-10 p.m. Saturday, Michigan League Ballroom
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Magdalena Zaborowska, professor of American culture and Afroamerican and African studies, was interviewed about the life and legacy of American novelist and social critic James Baldwin.
BBC
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“There’s not really anything important about the candidate that the Senate doesn’t already know. It’s really unlikely that any senator’s mind is going to be changed by anything the nominee says. … The real function of the confirmation hearings now is for the benefit of the senators,” said Richard Primus, professor of law, on this week’s confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
WDET Radio (Detroit)
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In a study of more than 900 oil and gas executives since 1992, Catherine Hausman, assistant professor of public policy, found that a 10 percent increase in oil prices raises executive compensation by 2 percent — strong evidence of a “pay-for-luck” dynamic, with large rewards to executives who happen to be in the industry at the right time.
The Washington Post
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VICTORS FOR MICHIGAN
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For three weeks each summer, students from the School of Dentistry head to Bay Cliff Health Camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to provide dental exams, cleanings, fillings and more at no cost to the campers, who may otherwise have trouble finding dental care.
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