Today's Headlines
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University establishes the Common Agenda for Well‑being
The steering committee of U-M’s Well-being Collective has established the Common Agenda for Well-being, which will serve as a blueprint for the collective’s work moving forward.
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Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe to deliver Wege Lecture
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe will deliver the Wege Lecture on Sustainability on April 24. Hayhoe’s talk will focus on “New Climate Solutions and Galvanizing for Action.”
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Arts Initiative announces 2024 Creative Careers Residents
The Arts Initiative has announced three master’s degree-level residents — Leah Crosby, Sara Faraj and Kara Roseborough — for its Creative Careers Residency.
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U-M sees surge in first-year, transfer student applications
With more than 105,000 applicants, U-M again set a record for application volume, with a growing number of prospective first-year and transfer students looking to enroll for the fall 2024 term.
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Study shows the evolving attitudes of Gen X toward evolution
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Nominations sought for Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award
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Dworkin, Sandvig receive 2023 public engagement awards
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U-M Debate team secures its first national title
Coming Events
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Apr 16
Tanner Lecture
“Truth and Love in Politics,” with Hélène Landemore of Yale University; 4-6 p.m.; Rackham Auditorium
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Apr 17
Tanner Symposium
With Don Herzog of the U-M Law School, Kyla Ebels-Duggan of Northwestern University, and Anne Phillips of the London School of Economics; 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Rackham Amphitheatre
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Apr 18
An Evening with Kemp Powers
A conversation with the Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, playwright, producer and director; 5:30-7 p.m.; Rackham Amphitheatre
Better battery manufacturing
New chemistries for batteries, semiconductors and more could be easier to manufacture, thanks to a new approach to making chemically complex materials that researchers at U-M and Samsung’s Advanced Materials Lab have demonstrated. Their new recipes use unconventional ingredients to make battery materials with fewer impurities. This video illustrates how a robotic lab tests these new designs.
Read more about the new battery researchSpotlight
“I was keen on exploring this idea of beauty emerging despite injury or destruction.”
— Irina Bondarenko, a statistician lead for the biostatics department at Michigan Medicine who grew up in Ukraine and has been inspired to create ceramic artwork honoring her homeland
Read more about Irina BondarenkoIt Happened at Michigan
The ‘rare and curious’ Stearns Collection
Frederick Stearns had never purchased a musical instrument, but a small guitar caught his eye. It was called a quirten and dated to 1807. He acquired instruments for the next 17 years, focusing on the “rare and curious.” And then he donated his vast collection to the University of Michigan.
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Politics is the key factor behind universal injunctions by federal district courts that apply to everyone in the country, says Nicholas Bagley, professor of law: “It cannot help but call the judiciary into disrepute. It doesn’t look like they’re applying the law in a clear way. It will erode the judiciary’s legitimacy, no question about it.”
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“It’s not just that Indigenous people are in the wrong place at the wrong time. The source of climate change vulnerability is that racism, colonialism and capitalism have rendered tribes in a land situation where there are not a lot of options to adapt,” said Kyle Whyte, professor of environment and sustainability.
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About 60% of people ages 50 to 80 have visited an urgent care center or retail health clinic in the past two years, according to U-M’s National Poll on Healthy Aging. “These kinds of clinics, which typically offer walk-in convenience, expanded hours and self-scheduling of appointments … (have) transformed the American health care landscape,” said Jeffrey Kullgren, associate professor of internal medicine.
U.S. News & World Report
