Today's Headlines
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Support resources, insurance available for international travelers
As travel season approaches, faculty and staff are encouraged to register their international travel and enroll in travel-abroad health insurance, even for personal travel.
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Chemicals stored in home garages linked to ALS risk
A new Michigan Medicine study finds that storing chemicals in a garage at home may be associated with an increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
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Law student wins Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Law student Rana Thabata has been awarded a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a program that provides financial support to immigrants and children of immigrants.
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Study: Alphabetical order of surnames may affect grading
An analysis by U-M researchers of more than 30 million grading records from U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades.
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Senate Assembly passes resolution regarding pay‑raise schedule
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Dearborn, Flint campuses announce commencement schedules
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Students turn fallen campus trees into public tables
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McCauley shares vision for making education more accessible
Coming Events
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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
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Apr 19
IHP-EIHS Symposium
Approaches to Oral History and the Work of Inclusive History, with Camron Amin, Alexis A. Antracoli, Lorena Chambers and Jay Cook; noon-2 p.m.; Tisch Hall, Room 1014
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Apr 22
2024 Ermine Cowles Case Memorial Lecture
Pincelli Hull of Yale University will speak on using fossils to understand biodiversity dynamics on an ever-changing planet; 8-10 p.m.; Rackham Amphitheatre
Surname order and grades
Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade. An analysis by U-M researchers of more than 30 million grading records from U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades. In this video, researchers Jun Li, Jiaxin Pei and Helen Wang discuss the study’s findings and how they arrived at them.
Read more about the studySpotlight
“I was keen on exploring this idea of beauty emerging despite injury or destruction.”
— Irina Bondarenko, a statistician lead for the biostatistics 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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“The bad news is the decline of RenCen, the most identifiable building in Detroit’s skyline. It’s going to be difficult to find tenants for all that space, and they are unlikely to be as prestigious as GM,” said Erik Gordon, clinical assistant professor of business, on the news that General Motors will move its global headquarters from the Renaissance Center.
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Singapore’s new prime minister, U-M alum Lawrence Wong, is taking over at a time when the city-state faces many new challenges, says Linda Lim, professor emerita of corporate strategy: “This is the opportunity for (Wong) and the rest of his leadership team to show that they can meet these challenges with fresh ideas and a more participatory democracy and inclusive economy than has hitherto characterized the nation’s political system.”
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“Not having the EPA doing its job is hugely damaging, not only to the public who are being harmed by noise but also to the research community. We don’t have access to a stream of funding that should be there,” said Rick Neitzel, professor of environmental health sciences, lamenting the lack of financial support from the federal government to research and regulate noise control.
Scientific American