Today's Headlines
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Times Higher Education ranks U-M No. 22 worldwide
The University of Michigan is the No. 22 university in the world and the No. 14 university in the United States, according to the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
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Three Medical School faculty receive prestigious NIH awards
Three U-M investigators have been acknowledged by the National Institutes of Health’s prestigious High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.
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Semester of ‘Gender Euphoria’ celebrates diversity through art at U-M
The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design is presenting a semester-long celebration featuring queer artists and artmaking around the theme of “Gender Euphoria.”
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University launches new surveys of sustainability indicators
U-M has launched its latest Sustainability Cultural Indicators Program surveys, which aim to assess sustainability knowledge, behaviors and attitudes among students, faculty and staff.
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U.S. News names Mott named No.1 children’s hospital in state
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Two multidisciplinary research projects to split $15M
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ISR looks to the future while marking first 75 years
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U-M shares campus hammock policy, updates poster guidelines
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REMINDER: Candace Johnson Award nominations due Oct. 11
Coming Events
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Oct 9
The Invented Library of an Invented Disciple
Reimagining the “Johannine” Literature, with Hugo Méndez of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 4-6 p.m.; Michigan Union, Pond Room
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Oct 9
A Conversation Across Differences
Former governors Steve Bullock of Montana and John Kasich of Ohio on democracy and civic discourse; 4-5:30 p.m.; Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium
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Oct 10
Disability Dialogues
Share experiences, concerns, insights, and ideas directly with ADA coordinators; noon-1 p.m.; virtual
Watt a journey!
A group of U-M engineering students has worked closely with rural communities in Brazil’s Pantanal region on ways to improve residents’ lives, like putting power in schools and designing innovative incinerators. In this video, the students of the Pantanal Partnership and the Brazilian people they worked with talk about the efforts to support community autonomy, preserve unique habitats and generate ecotourism.
Read more about the Pantanal PartnershipSpotlight
“I’m very passionate about facilitating your own ability to still be excited by common birds.”
— Meg Millure, annual giving and stewardship officer in the School of Information who has a deep and special affinity for birds, particularly peregrine falcons.
Read more about Meg MillureIt Happened at Michigan
‘New era for dental students’
In 1875, Gov. John J. Bagley signed a bill enabling the Board of Regents to establish and maintain a dental school in connection with the Medical School. This marked the establishment of the nation’s first state university dental school, heralding a “new era for dental students.”
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Because none are purebred, American tigers held in captivity are most likely not ideal candidates for captive-breeding programs intended to restore populations in the wild. “Would those individuals be able to persist and thrive in an environment that a single subspecies was adapted to? I think people are concerned that they probably wouldn’t,” said Neil Carter, associate professor of environment.
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Many dating apps’ algorithms tend to operate on the assumption that “like attracts like,” which can come down to users’ appearance — inadvertently “siloing” users of color even for users who would otherwise be open to dating different races, says Apryl Williams, assistant professor of communication and media and of digital studies.
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From a propulsion standpoint, larger ships would likely outperform smaller ships environmentally because of an “economy of scale” effect, says Matthew Collette, professor of naval architecture and marine engineering: “A ship that, say, holds 4,000 passengers is not going to require four times the power to go through the water that four ships that hold 1,000 passengers are going to require.”
USA Today