Today's Headlines
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Video of May 16 community assembly on campus culture now available
A recording of the May 16 community assembly “Restoring Trust and Building for the Future,” on the status of U-M’s work related to campus culture and values, is now available.
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Museum of Natural History looks at pandemic’s inequities
The Museum of Natural History’s latest exhibit, “Facing the Pandemic,” dissects the disparate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on different communities.
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$1.5M grant to support firearm injury prevention research
U-M has been awarded a $1.5 million federal grant to launch a postdoctoral research training program focusing specifically on the prevention of firearm injuries among children and teens.
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Everything old is new again in exhibit of Greek manuscripts
A new exhibit on display through June 28 in the Hatcher Library celebrates the centenary of U-M’s collection of Greek manuscripts, the largest such collection in the United States.
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Record reducing email, print publication for summer
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Faculty members receive Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Awards
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Ashley Lucas to receive 10th annual Shirley Verrett Award
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Polarized Instagrammers fueled coverage of athlete activism
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University leaders share update on culture, values work
Coming Events
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May 20
Jim Toy Celebration of Liberation
An event to honor the co-founder of the Spectrum Center, 7-8:30 p.m., Michigan Theater, 603. E. Liberty
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May 23
Nobel laureate Stanley Whittingham
“Overcoming Climate Change: The Critical Role and Challenges of Energy Storage,” 4:30-5:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium
2022 Road Scholars Tour
The annual Michigan Road Scholars Tour resumed this year after a two-year pause during the COVID-19 pandemic. From May 2-6, faculty members from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses toured the state, heard directly from community members and discussed a wide range of topics. Stops included Lansing, Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Traverse City, Pellston, Sault Ste. Marie, Brimley, Midland, Warren and Detroit.
The 2022 Road Scholars, pictured on the Capitol steps in Lansing, are: front row, from left, Kristi Thomas, LaSonia Forté; second row, Rodney Vergotine, Lawrence Seiford, Wendy Tremaine, Antonios Koumpias, Ambrielle Stoltz-Bango; third row, Randal Singer, Brendan Nieubuurt, Cyril Grum, Michela Arnaboldi, Gabriela Marcu, Prakash Sathe, Paul Reingold; fourth row, Folafoluwa Odetola, Heidi Buchele, Nicole Appleberry. (Photo by Dana Sitzler)
Read more about the 2022 Road Scholars TourSpotlight

“There’s horses where you say, ‘That probably won’t work,’ and there’s the ones where you say, ‘I need that horse.’”
— Esme Gregory, human resources assistant at the Institute for Social Research, who with her boyfriend owns and shows her eight Friesian mares and stud
Read more about Esme GregoryU-M Heritage

J-Hop’s rise and fall
Since its founding, the mid-year social event that became known as the Junior Hop, then simply and universally as J-Hop, had swelled into a glittering three-day-and-night festival. Nearly a century later in 1960, the future of the event was up the Student Government Council, which had a lot of history to consider.
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“This is gonna be a shot in the arm for a lot of the pro-reproductive rights organizations. I don’t know whether or not there’ll be a counter-mobilization that’s really going to work for the anti-abortion groups,” said Richard Hall, professor of political science and public policy, on the surge in donations to abortion rights groups and mobilization of pro-choice voters.
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COVID-19 cases in Michigan are up because the latest subvariant is so contagious and people are having much more contact with one another, says Laraine Washer, clinical professor of internal medicine and infectious diseases: “In Michigan at least, there’s much less mask wearing. There’s more interaction, and so more opportunity for a highly contagious subvariant to spread … with these subvariants, reinfection is possible.”
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“We need to have conversations with our children at the dinner table, in our schools, in our mentoring groups, to let them know that all lives have human value, and that we should not dehumanize the lives of Black and Brown and Asian folk,” said Riana Anderson, assistant professor of health behavior and health education.
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