Today's Headlines
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UM-Dearborn honors staff members with recognition awards
The Chancellor’s Staff Recognition Awards honor the achievements of staff members across UM-Dearborn whose hard work, dedication to excellence and push for innovation contribute to the campus’ mission.
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Applications open for 2025 Road Scholars Tour
The application period for the 2025 Road Scholars program, a unique, five-day bus tour, set for May 5-9, 2025, is now open through Dec. 1.
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U-M seeks to defend title in Big Ten Data Viz competition
The university is calling on faculty, staff and students to showcase their expertise and defend its title in the Big Ten Academic Alliance Data Visualization Championship, in which participants create compelling and competitive data visualizations.
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Report ranks U-M as a top U.S. university for studying abroad
U-M is the country’s top-ranked public university when it comes to studying abroad and No. 2 in the nation overall, according to the annual Open Doors report by the Institute of International Education.
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C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital study examines anger in kids
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Proposals sought for Artists in the Archives program
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New mural helps people visualize the concussion experience
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Presentations scheduled for campus climate survey findings
Coming Events
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Nov 21
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Address Poverty-related Issues
Discussion of how to leverage AI-enabled tools and approaches for meaningful social impact; 2-5 p.m.; Michigan League
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Nov 22
What Makes the Berliner Philharmoniker Unique Among Orchestras?
A free panel discussion that is part of a Berliner Philharmoniker residency at U-M; 6-7:30 p.m.; Earl V. Moore Building, Watkins Lecture Hall
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Nov 23
AI and the Business World
A Saturday Morning Physics presentation with Nigel Melville of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, 10:30-11:30 a.m.; Weiser Hall, 170 and 182 Auditoriums, or virtual
Parasite project
Amanda Koltz, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, recently started a project that enlists undergraduate students in the U-M Biological Station’s Field Mammalogy course. Koltz and collaborating researchers at Yale, Texas A&M and U-M are assessing disease ecology in the wild at UMBS by collecting data from white-footed mice. This video explains how the mice are studied and what researchers hope to learn.
Read more about this parasite research projectSpotlight
“I felt like cheer helped me when I was a kid and becoming an adult because it helped me become more personable.”
— Jennaye Wade, human resources generalist associate at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business who is a full-time volunteer varsity cheer coach and cheer director for the Washtenaw Junior Maize Football and Cheer League
Read more about Jennaye WadeIt Happened at Michigan
An historic public health degree
Paul B. Cornely graduated from U-M in 1934, making him the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in public health in the United States. Cornely then moved to Washington, D.C., where he taught at Howard University for 39 years, fighting for the desegregation of hospitals and equal health care opportunities for all.
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“The fact that it’s a CIA person here shows again that every day there are tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of people in the intelligence community and the military that have access to the most sensitive intelligence information this government has,” said Javed Ali, associate professor of practice of public policy, after a CIA official was charged with leaking classified documents about an Israeli strike on Iran.
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“People want to trust the science but are not always sure they can trust the scientists” to put personal biases aside when using their influence, said Arthur Lupia, professor of political science and interim vice president for research and innovation. “It’s one thing to discover something — it’s another thing to explain it effectively. For science to have public value, we actually have to do both of those things.”
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“What we’re beginning to see is a significant test by Donald Trump of just how far he can go. He’s already beginning to push the boundaries of the power of the president, especially in an era where he may have a more friendly set of courts,” said Barry Rabe, professor of public policy and environment, who believes Trump’s pick to head the EPA could launch “a frontal assault on the agency, trying to drive people out.”
Deutsche Welle (Germany)