Today's Headlines
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Ono: U-M will ‘sustain and strengthen’ its highest traditions
President Santa J. Ono opened the March 20 Board of Regents meeting by promising U-M will continue to “sustain and strengthen” its highest traditions and aspirations as a university.
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Three faculty members elected to serve on SACUA
Three faculty members with backgrounds in engineering, public health and computer science will soon join the executive committee of the U-M’s central faculty governance system.
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Neel U. Sukhatme named new dean of Law School
Neel U. Sukhatme, a distinguished legal scholar with expertise across multiple disciplines, has been appointed as the David A. Breach Dean of Law and professor of law.
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U-M Health completes schematic design of new specialty care center
U-M Health shared schematic designs for a new clinical facility in Troy with the Board of Regents, which approved the project budget and additional land purchases.
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U-M donors rally to support their passions on Giving Blueday
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School of Nursing receives $2 million grant
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Want to preserve biodiversity? Go big, U-M researchers say
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Clements acquires vast collection of industrial engineering history
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U-M study finds time does not drive forest carbon storage
Coming Events
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Mar 21
The Charcuterie Board Show
Each story performed on stage by the RC Players serves as a unique ingredient on this metaphorical charcuterie board; 8-10:30 p.m. March 21-22; East Quadrangle, Keene Theater
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Mar 23
Painting the Scene Inside: Artist Talk
Panel discussion with past Prison Creative Arts Project contributors; 1:30-2:30 p.m.; Chrysler Center, Chesebrough Auditorium.
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Mar 24
Russia Beyond Putin
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician, author, historian, and former political prisoner, will speak about Russia under Putin; 5:30-7 p.m.; Rackham Graduate School Amphitheatre
History meets engineering
The William L. Clements Library has made available the collection of Robert M. Vogel, shown holding a stereoscopic viewer in his home office. The Robert M. Vogel Collection of Historic Images of Engineering & Industry includes nearly 23,000 photographs of civil engineering, industrial processes and mechanization of the 19th century, as well as over 1,200 prints, books, ephemera and realia. (Photo by Clements Library staff)
Read more about the collectionSpotlight
“One of the most challenging things in our history has been sticking to our guns because we are an atypical instrumentation. But our secret sauce is that Akropolis is a family.”
— Andrew Koeppe, a research technician associate for Michigan Medicine who with Kary Landry, lecturer in SMTD, won a Grammy with their reed quintet
Read more about AkropolisIt Happened at Michigan
When the Wolverines won it all in 1989
When March Madness begins, and 68 Division I men’s basketball teams will vie to become national champion. The U-M men’s team has made it to the championship game seven times since the NCAA Tournament began in 1939, winning it all in 1989 — its first and, so far, only national championship.
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“It’s the move fast and break things approach, without really thinking through the implications of a range of different choices you are making. So they tell everyone to return to work without considering the fact that they don’t have the space to accommodate everyone,” said Pam Herd, professor of public policy, about the Trump administration’s return-to-office order for hundreds of thousands of federal employees after years of working from home.
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“Hezbollah is trying to take advantage of the new government’s weakness in Syria, but the group itself is in a precarious position. It has suffered major setbacks from Israeli strikes, the fall of Assad, and now new adversaries in Syria,” said Javed Ali, clinical associate professor of public policy, about the Shiite terrorist force backed by Iran.
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“It’s a very bad idea. We don’t know anything about how AI would make such decisions (including how it was trained and the underlying algorithms), the data on which such decisions would be based, or why we should believe it is trustworthy,” said Shobita Parthasarathy, professor of public policy, on DOGE chief Elon Musk’s push to use artificial intelligence to decide which government employees should be fired.
The Economic Times (India)
