Today's Headlines
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U-M initiative pairs students with older adults to improve hand function
Through the Hands and Health at Home program, School of Kinesiology students visit older adults in the Ann Arbor area twice a week to perform exercises to improve hand function.
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University receives $3.6M to advance nuclear energy
Four U-M projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Partnerships program aim to make nuclear energy safer and more equitable.
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$4.8M campaign led by U-M will improve forecasts in western U.S.
A new science expedition in Yampa Valley, Colorado, will improve forecasts of snowfall and estimates of how climate change will impact snowpack and water availability in the western U.S. mountains.
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A leap toward carbon neutrality, CO2 to methanol
U-M researchers have developed a catalyst material known as cobalt phthalocyanine that converts carbon dioxide — a significant driver of climate change — into renewable fuels such as methanol.
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REMINDER: Distinguished University Innovator nominations sought
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Karen Thole to become College of Engineering dean
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Endowment 101: Facts about U-M’s $17.9 billion endowment
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$14.5M center to help Navy overcome emerging challenges
Coming Events
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May 9
Building Strong Roots
Tools for Strengthening Parental Mental Health, webinar; 7-8:30 p.m.; virtual
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May 10
“War Relics”
Exhibition of works by Enna Diddio; 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; North Campus Research Complex Building 18, Connections Gallery; runs through Aug. 2
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May 13
Anxiety in Adults and Kids: Tips for All Ages
With Stefanie Russman Block, Hans Schroder and Jami Socha from the Michigan Medicine Department of Psychiatry; 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Focusing on mental health
In his May video message to the university community, President Santa J. Ono acknowledged U-M’s focus on well-being, and particularly its efforts to promote mental health. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and Ono recognized Kelcey Stratton, chief behavioral health strategist at University Human Resources, as this month’s Portrait of a Wolverine.
Spotlight
“Hong Kong has turned me into a voracious omnivore who lives to eat and plans everything around it.”
— Gray Carper, a service quality analyst with Health Information Technology & Services who first visited Hong Kong in 2003 and now lives there and serves as a tour guide
Read more about Gray CarperIt Happened at Michigan
The university’s first gift — in 13 volumes
The first recorded gift from an individual to the university came from a well-to-do fur trader who never set foot in Ann Arbor. In 1840, Charles W.W. Borup shipped to U-M a highly regarded German encyclopedia set. Borup’s donation of 13 volumes gave U-M its first gift and a solid scholarly foundation in its fledgling library.
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“It’s not really all that clear what’s going to happen with broker commissions. … At least initially, we’re likely to see the percentage commission system continue,” said Brian Connolly, assistant professor of business law, about a new real estate rule that no longer requires sellers’ agents to offer commissions to buyers’ agents.
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“We hope that our data will ultimately improve winter storm forecasts and tell western cities when to expect a drought because of insufficient snowpack,” said Claire Pettersen, assistant professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, who is leading a multi-university field campaign on the impact of climate change on snowpack and water availability in the western United States.
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“In the early days of bone marrow transplantation … cardiotoxicity leading to heart failure was a major concern. This concern has persisted in contemporary BMT,” said Salim Hayek, associate professor of internal medicine, whose research team created a novel tool that predicts a person’s risk for cardiovascular complications after bone marrow transplantation.
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