Today's Headlines
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DEI Summit to focus on humanity, mental health, spiritual diversity
The U-M community will have a chance to examine the role of the arts in supporting humanity, mental health and wellness, and religious and spiritual diversity at the 2022 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Summit.
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College of Pharmacy plans medication disposal event Oct. 4
The College of Pharmacy will host a Safe Medication Disposal Event from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 4 at two locations: on Ingalls Mall across from the Rackham Building and on the Medical Campus.
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Rising food prices hit less-healthy older adults hardest, poll suggests
Three-quarters of people older than 50 in the United States say the rising cost of groceries has affected them somewhat or a lot, and nearly a third say they’re eating less healthily because of increased food costs, a U-M poll suggests.
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U-M leaders discuss campus culture values at assembly
University leaders gathered to discuss key U-M values in this year’s second Culture Journey Community Assembly, which took place over Zoom.
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Enrollment of new and international students up at UM-Dearborn this fall
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Engineering team receives $2M grant to empower mobility
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NIH grant funds national firearm research coordinating center at U-M
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Agencies laud UM-Flint for being veteran friendly
Coming Events
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Sep 30
The war in Ukraine: Russia, the EU, and NATO
A discussion with Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, John Beyrle, Stephen Biegun, 4-5:30 p.m., Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium
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Oct 3
A conversation about technology, surveillance and civil liberties
With Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts, 4-5 p.m., Weill Hall, Room 1110, and virtual
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Oct 3
Signe Karlström Memorial Event 2022
A performance by Swedish folk quintet Jaerv and neo-classical crossover duo The OK Factor, East Quad, Keene Theater, 8-9:30 p.m.
DEI Summit 2022
In this video, U-M students and staff invite the campus to the 2022 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Summit on Oct. 12. The campus community will have an opportunity to examine the role of the arts in supporting humanity, mental health and wellness, and religious and spiritual diversity.
Read more about the DEI SummitSpotlight
“You’re working with one of the world’s biggest jigsaw puzzles. That’s why I keep getting drawn back there.”
— Richard Redding, associate research scientist in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, who has spent nearly every winter in Egypt for about 30 years uncovering the mysteries of the Old Kingdom
Read more about Richard ReddingU-M Heritage
The first freshmen
Their names are nowhere on the U-M campus. Unlike professors who taught them, there is no monument, no dormitory wing, no conference room that pays homage to their tenure or contributions. But in 1841, they did what no other young person had ventured to do in Ann Arbor. These six young, white males enrolled.
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Unlike online tutoring and cryptocurrency trading — areas that China’s regulators have unambiguously quashed — dating and other services centered on social encounters have remained relatively unscathed. “Rather than simply cracking down, dating apps are seen as technologies that can be effectively co-opted by the state,” said Yun Zhou, assistant professor of sociology and Chinese studies.
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“Of the many costs that the War on Drugs inflicts on the Black community, the practice of deliberately charging innocent defendants with fabricated crimes may be the most shameful,” said Samuel Gross, professor emeritus of law, whose research shows that innocent Black people are much more likely to face wrongful convictions than innocent white people and seven times more likely to be victims of police misconduct.
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Ken Kollman, professor of political science and director of the Center for Political Studies, says it’s not surprising that Democrats are reshaping their campaigns around the momentum of the improving economy: “They will adapt to the moment, and especially if they are getting some traction by touting their recent policies on student loan forgiveness or the recent reduction in gas prices that are happening nationwide.”
Michigan Advance
