Today's Headlines
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Athletics renames softball stadium to honor Carol Hutchins
The U-M athletic department will honor the career of retired softball coach Carol Hutchins by renaming its softball stadium Alumni Field at Carol Hutchins Stadium in her honor.
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Recreational Sports fields to be added on North Campus
Two new artificial-turf sports fields will be constructed on North Campus, to serve as a space for student health and well-being, replacing facilities displaced by the new Central Campus housing project.
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Regents approve plans for UM-Flint collaborative tech facility
The Board of Regents has approved design and construction plans for an academic teaching facility at UM-Flint that will focus on technology, flexibility and collaboration.
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Ono launches search for ethics, integrity and compliance officer
President Santa J. Ono has appointed a committee of faculty and staff to assist in the search for U-M’s first ethics, integrity and compliance officer, who will report directly to Ono and lead an effort to bolster U-M’s dedication to integrity.
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Regents Roundup — March 2023
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U-M launches effort to support student climate education
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Two SACUA seats decided after election; third requires runoff
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U-M’s Earl Lewis awarded the National Humanities Medal
Coming Events
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Mar 24
Emerging and Future Paradigms for High Performance Computing
The Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Annual Symposium, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Rackham Building, Amphitheater
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Mar 27
Women Leading Local Government
An interactive seminar presented by the Michigan Municipal League’s 16/50 Project, 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m., Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium
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Mar 28
“NATO Today: Confronting the Crisis in Ukraine and Adapting to Meet Global Challenges”
Fifth annual Vandenberg Lecture with Ambassador Julianne Smith, U.S. permanent representative to NATO, noon-1 p.m., Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium
In honor of Hutch
Athletic director Warde Manuel gives a congratulatory hug to retired softball coach Carol Hutchins after the Board of Regents voted March 23 to rename the university’s softball stadium in Hutchins’ honor. The home of U-M’s softball program will now be known as Alumni Field at Carol Hutchins Stadium. (Photo by Roger Hart, Michigan Photography)
Read more about Hutchins’ recognitionSpotlight

“I love wood. That’s what I’m really into. But I’ve come to appreciate ceramics, because I can come up with an idea and realize it so quickly, which is appealing.”
— Mark Meier, lecturer II in architecture in the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, who builds furniture, sculpts ceramics and explores his expansive curiosity through digital means
Read more about Mark MeierU-M Heritage

The first teach-in
In 1965, only a handful of students were radical in their politics. But the faculty included a scattering of progressives involved in the early stirrings of dissent against the war. The attack on North Vietnam rang in their ears like a shrieking alarm. Faculty members Zelda and William Gamson sought to do something.
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As lawmakers appear closer than ever to blocking TikTok, a total ban would most likely result in Apple and Google removing the popular Chinese social media app from their app stores and turning off app updates. “Everyone who’s installed it would still have it. But my guess is that for everyone who has it on their phone, it would stop working in various ways,” said Kentaro Toyama, professor of information.
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“The most useful way to use them is to spark conversation. Think about, ‘Here are the ways I’m different from other people.’ That might be helpful in understanding yourself,” said Robin Edelstein, professor of psychology, who sees some value in the popular Enneagram personality test but wouldn’t use it to make any “important life decisions.”
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Dave Ulrich, professor of business administration, says in today’s uncertain times, good business leaders should focus on what is certain in their environment: “It’s an actually really interesting contradiction. We shape the future by being certain about what we know and believe and what we value, and that becomes critical to our success. … Hope comes when we are optimistic that our efforts today will lead to success tomorrow.”
Forbes