Today's Headlines
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UM-Flint opens residence hall to area health care workers
UM-Flint is opening its First Street Residence Hall to medical professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Doctors and nurses in Genesee County will be able to stay in the hall beginning April 3.
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New COVID-19 paid-time-off bank supports faculty and staff
The university is providing a new bank of 80 hours of paid time off for COVID-19-related absences as guided by the federal Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act. The new PTO is effective April 1.
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Kellogg Eye Center, College of Engineering team up on shield
A team from the Kellogg Eye Center and College of Engineering joined forces to create a new, larger breath shield that will help providers and patients reduce COVID-19 transmission.
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Publicly shaming harassers may be popular but doesn’t bring justice
U-M researchers seeking to understand what people who are harassed on social media want sites to do found most wanted some action that felt just but a one-size-fits-all approach will not work.
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Aggressive social distancing may cut COVID-19 hospitalizations
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U-M leads $62M ‘largest radio telescope in space’ mission
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Would a sewage surveillance effort help track COVID-19?
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U-M professors coordinate international donation efforts
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Poverty Solutions issues COVID-19 resource guide for Michiganders
Coming Events
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Apr 21
Record event listings suspended
The University Record is temporarily suspending its print and online event listings. Read more.
Morality in crises
Wild stock market gyrations and runs on toilet paper as well as other home goods might seem like acts spurred by financial and economic fear and panic. But Paolo Pasquariello, professor of finance in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, sees such reactions as rational — if not always ethical — in a time of a global pandemic. In this video, Pasquariello shares his experiences and lessons learned from past crises.
Read a Q&A with U-M professor Paolo PasquarielloFaculty/Staff Spotlight
“As an engineer, I have great respect for nature — there really is no better designer. Living things are extremely complex organic machines that got optimized in such a beautiful way over a long period of time.”
Nilay Chakraborty, associate professor of mechanical engineering at UM-Dearborn
Read more about the Faculty/Staff SpotlightThis Week in U-M History
April Fool’s
The Cube featured an April Fool’s Day look on April 1, 2008. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of March 30-April 5.
Read more about U-M in HistoryMichigan in the news
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As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to spike, American health care workers will likely face agonizing decisions on how to ration care — and soon. “Doctors who have dedicated their careers to helping people now have to turn people away. It’s dreadful. It’s really on all of us to pull together so that we don’t force these horrible triage choices,” said Elizabeth Anderson, professor of philosophy.
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“All hospitals are challenged. Rural hospitals have huge cash issues. They have very thin if any cash margin, so they don’t have what they need to weather the ups and downs,” said Marianne Udow-Phillips, executive director of the Center for Health and Research Transformation, on the existential threat the coronavirus crisis poses to small, independent and rural hospitals across Michigan.
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“Due to the built environment of prisons and issues of overcrowding, it is extremely difficult to practice recommended social distancing or isolate yourself if you are sick. … Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti — the only women’s prison in the state — houses over 2,200 women but only has capacity for 1,100,” said Nora Krinitsky, director of the U-M Carceral State Project and Prison Creative Arts Project.
Detroit Metro Times
