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Fun in the snow

A shroud of snow covers this bronze puma as it guards the entrance to U-M’s Museum of Natural History on Jan. 25. A near-constant gentle snowfall left a blanket of winter’s bounty around the Ann Arbor campus. The day provided many opportunities to showcase the campus’ beauty under fresh powder, or join a raucous snowball battle on the Diag. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)

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Spotlight

Petra Kuppers, the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture in LSA who with her wife launched Turtle Disco, weekly group sessions that incorporated writing and movement

“I love expressing myself through movement. … There are certain things you can’t express in writing that movement can allow me to access.”

— Petra Kuppers, the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture in LSA who with her wife launched Turtle Disco, weekly group sessions that incorporated writing and movement

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U-M Heritage

James van Gundia Neel died of cancer at his home in Ann Arbor on the first day of February 2000. He was 84. He was promptly memorialized as one of the greatest scientists in U-M's history. But a few months after his death, he was accused of causing a deadly epidemic among Indigenous villagers in the Amazon rainforest.

The fake news about James Neel

James van Gundia Neel died of cancer at his home in Ann Arbor on the first day of February 2000. He was 84. He was promptly memorialized as one of the greatest scientists in U-M’s history. But a few months after his death, he was accused of causing a deadly epidemic among Indigenous villagers in the Amazon rainforest.

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    • Joel Slemrod

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    • Zirui Huang

    “Consciousness is complex and studying it is like solving a scrambled Rubik’s cube. If you look at just a single surface, you may be confused by the way it is organized. You need to work on the puzzle looking at all dimensions,” said Zirui Huang, research assistant professor of anesthesiology, whose research provides a new way to assess a patient’s wakefulness, awareness and sensory organization.

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