Today's Headlines
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University shares efforts to aid planning for fall semester
U-M leaders are reaching out to inform faculty members and unit human resources officials about procedures and resources that will help guide them as they prepare for students to return to campus this fall.
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Schlissel, Collins outline fall plans to faculty at town hall
U-M will test students for coronavirus, allow highly at-risk faculty to teach remotely, and implement other measures aimed at keeping people safe while preserving as much in-person instruction as possible this fall.
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Grants address poverty, COVID-19 impact across Midwest
A network led by Poverty Solutions U-M has awarded six grants totaling $150,000 for projects to improve economic mobility and address the impact of COVID-19 throughout the Midwest.
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Advanced Transportation Hub funds promising mobility projects
The Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization Innovation Hub for Advanced Transportation at U-M recently awarded a combined $710,000 to eight high-tech, early-stage projects.
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Statement on Homeland Security policy affecting international students
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Police brutality teach-out encourages learners to get informed, involved
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Buildings analysis group examines emissions reductions potential
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U-M fitness program guides kids through at-home exercise
Coming Events
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Jul 6
Attend at Home — Week of July 6
Each week, U-M’s Arts & Culture website highlights selected virtual events or exhibitions around the university.
This week includes: Linda Dzuris playing the Lurie Carillon, an exhibition of Coptic manuscripts, the Ark Family Room Series with SistaStrings, the Virtual Family Art Studio, a panel discussion on Jews, racial justice and policing, and the Nevertheless Film Festival.
The Record is sharing Attend at Home while its print and online event listings are temporarily suspended. Read more
Keeping patients safe
Michigan Medicine has a long-standing commitment to the health care needs of its communities. Patient safety is Michigan Medicine’s highest priority, and that’s especially true during the global COVID-19 pandemic. This video explains Michigan Medicine’s commitment to providing a safe, reliable place to receive care and the steps taken to ensure patient safety.
Read more about the precautions Michigan Medicine is takingFaculty/Staff Spotlight
“I used the Great Lakes supercomputer at U-M Ann Arbor to train my model because this is a very computationally demanding process.”
Halil Bisgin, assistant professor of computer science in UM-Flint’s College of Arts & Sciences
Read more about Halil BisginThis Week in U-M History
Diag flagpole
A flagpole from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition is Chicago was installed on the Diag on June 23, 1898. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the weeks of June 22-July 19.
Read more about U-M in HistoryMichigan in the news
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“I hope at least that the questioning that has started with monuments, because they’re visible, because they’re large and because they’re easy to remove, will continue to happen as we start to re-evaluate the symbols on money, on our stamps. The flags and other symbols that we use. The songs that we sing for our patriotic anthems. And that definitely, we will get to re-evaluate our K-12 curriculum,” said Alvita Akiboh, assistant professor of history and postdoctoral fellow.
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“Think about ADHD, think about overwork and overstress. Is there a relationship here to the kinds of places that we’ve built for ourselves? And how different it is from the environments that our brains evolved in?” said environmental psychologist Avik Basu, lecturer of environment and sustainability, who believes even small doses of nature are better than none at all.
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“Families are facing a challenging decision regarding whether to send their children to school for in-person classes in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. … Some families simply don’t have a choice because they need to go to work,” said Kao-Ping Chua, assistant professor of pediatrics, whose research shows that a third of parents are unsure whether they will send their kids to school this fall.
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“Many of the opportunities to improve energy efficiency are connected to rebates and loans. For various reasons these options are unattainable, particularly for low-income Black households,” said Tony Reames, assistant professor of environment and sustainability and director of the Urban Energy Justice Lab. “We need to be more strategic and geographic in how we implement our energy efficiency programs.”
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“We had people in the audience rip up their programs and throw them in the trash, right in front of the choir, and walk out,” said Eugene Rogers, associate professor of conducting, who in 2015 led the Men’s Glee Club in the premiere of alumnus Joel Thompson’s “The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed,” a musical composition of the final words of seven unarmed Black men who were killed during encounters with police.
The New York Times
