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Meg Millure
“I’m very passionate about facilitating your own ability to still be excited by common birds.”

— Meg Millure, annual giving and stewardship officer in the School of Information who has a deep and special affinity for birds, particularly peregrine falcons.

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It Happened at Michigan

A photo of a building that housed the U-M Dental School and Homeopathic College in 1875

‘New era for dental students’

In 1875, Gov. John J. Bagley signed a bill enabling the Board of Regents to establish and maintain a dental school in connection with the Medical School. This marked the establishment of the nation’s first state university dental school, heralding a “new era for dental students.”

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    Because none are purebred, American tigers held in captivity are most likely not ideal candidates for captive-breeding programs intended to restore populations in the wild. “Would those individuals be able to persist and thrive in an environment that a single subspecies was adapted to? I think people are concerned that they probably wouldn’t,” said Neil Carter, associate professor of environment.

    The New York Times
    • Apryl Williams

    Many dating apps’ algorithms tend to operate on the assumption that “like attracts like,” which can come down to users’ appearance — inadvertently “siloing” users of color even for users who would otherwise be open to dating different races, says Apryl Williams, assistant professor of communication and media and of digital studies.

    The Washington Post
    • Matthew Collette

    From a propulsion standpoint, larger ships would likely outperform smaller ships environmentally because of an “economy of scale” effect, says Matthew Collette, professor of naval architecture and marine engineering: “A ship that, say, holds 4,000 passengers is not going to require four times the power to go through the water that four ships that hold 1,000 passengers are going to require.” 

    USA Today