Today's Headlines
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U-M endowment up $500M after another strong year
The value of U-M’s endowment rose to $12.4 billion, and its 20-year annualized return of 9.2 percent ranks U-M in the top decile for long-term investment performance among university endowments.
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New investment fund to offer early-stage capital for U-M startups
U-M Tech Transfer, the unit responsible for commercializing university research and innovations, will create the Accelerate Blue Fund to provide seed capital to nascent U-M startup companies.
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Valeria Bertacco appointed vice provost for engaged learning
Valeria Bertacco has been appointed vice provost for engaged learning. Her three-year appointment approved by the Board of Regents is effective Oct. 21, and she will succeed James Holloway.
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Regents approve renovations to Biomedical Engineering Building
The first floor of the College of Engineering’s Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building will receive new state-of-the-art design, innovation and prototyping spaces.
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Regents Roundup — October 2019
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Food, retail partners announced for renovated Michigan Union
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Solar Car Team finishes third in Bridgestone World Solar Challenge
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DEI progress report: U-M has made gains, has more to do
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$10M gift fuels U-M efforts to improve the world’s health
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U-M matches school-record Graduation Success Rate in NCAA report
Coming Events
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Oct 19
Drug take-back events
U-M’s Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network partnering on nine Washtenaw County medication take-back sites, 11 am.-2 p.m., various locations
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Oct 21
Agrippina: “I, Me, Mine”?
A lecture and discussion with Mary T. Boatwright, professor in department of classical studies, Duke University, 4:30-5 p.m., Angell Hall, Room 2175
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Oct 22
The Causes and Consequences of Human Obesity
Taubman Prize keynote by Sir Stephen O’Rahilly of the University of Cambridge, 10 a.m.-noon, Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building, Kahn Auditorium
IPE in Action
Bruce Mueller, professor of pharmacy and associate dean for academic affairs, facilitates a structured discussion of a patient case during IPE in Action. The Oct. 16 event was designed to anchor U-M’s momentum around interprofessional education in the health sciences. Focusing on better health outcomes through interprofessional collaboration, it drew more than a thousand students and a hundred faculty members from 11 U-M schools on three campuses.
Read more about IPE in ActionFaculty/Staff Spotlight
“Having English students learn typesetting gives them opportunities to re-encounter language as a physical, visual process.”
Fritz Swanson, lecturer II in the Department of English Language and Literature and founder of Wolverine Press
Read more about Fritz SwansonThis Week in U-M History
Mobilizing ‘Minutemen’
On Oct. 15, 1942, students volunteered for the War Manpower Mobilization Corps, the “Minutemen of the Campus.” Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of Oct. 14-20.
Read more about U-M in HistoryMichigan in the news
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Having more women role models in the automotive industry would encourage young females to apply for jobs traditionally held by men, says Cindy Schipani, professor of business law: “I also think that Mary Barra’s leadership at GM, with her background in engineering, serves as a terrific role model for women engineers, and may influence the career choices of some women.”
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Huei Peng, director of Mcity and professor of mechanical engineering, says that while the technology is advancing, even low-speed self-driving cars have severe limitations. He compared them to the Wright brothers’ early airplanes: “They flew a very short distance: not very high, not very far, not very fast. They were not very exciting. They were not very useful.”
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“Their finding that wealth was inherited, rather than achieved, has real impacts for research on inequality and will likely change our understanding of ancient Europe,” said Alicia Ventresca Miller, assistant professor of anthropology, commenting on an archaeological discovery that humans have a history of status division stretching back at least 4,000 years.
Scientific American
