Today's Headlines
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Sanctions set for employees not complying with vaccine policy
Employees out of compliance with the university’s COVID-19 vaccination policy will face additional accountability measures, effective Nov. 8 for staff and at the end of the academic semester for faculty.
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Student disability advocate to receive Neubacher Award
Because LSA senior Vincent Pinti is using his lived experience to explore and find ways to make U-M — and the world — a more accessible place, he will be honored with the university’s James T. Neubacher Award.
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Academic Innovation seeks proposals to address global challenges
The Center for Academic Innovation is accepting proposals for online courses and series that address the fundamental global challenges facing an increasingly interconnected world.
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U-M’s 2021 fall enrollment tops 50,000 for first time
U-M welcomed its largest-ever class of first-year students this fall, helping to push the Ann Arbor campus’ overall student body past 50,000 students for the first time in university history.
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Endowment shows strong returns amid financial-market growth
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$25M gift to help fund computer science, information building
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Weinstein appointed executive vice dean at Medical School
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Regents Roundup — October 2021
Coming Events
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Oct 26
Reading “The Fortunes”
With Peter Ho Davies, Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature, 5-6 p.m., virtual
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Oct 27
America’s place in the post-Afghanistan world
With journalists Robin Wright and Jawad Sukhanyar, 4-5 p.m.. virtual
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Oct 28
A Conversation on Critical Race Theory: Its Meaning, Controversies, and Influence
With Angela Valenzuela of University of Texas – Austin; Camille Wilson, Diversity and Social Transformation Professor at U-M; and Mike Spencer of the University of Washington, 3-4 p.m., virtual
Bus route reminder
Major changes to campus bus service, which include restoring pre-pandemic routes and discontinuing some others, begin Oct. 24. In this video, Lisa Solomon and Bill McAllister of Logistics, Transportation & Parking discuss the route changes, safety guidelines and student employment opportunities.
Read more about the bus service changesSpotlight
“I have this drive to fight for this population because I know how hard it was for us to get services when he was a cute kid.”
— Kelly Miltimore, a registered nurse who works in the Central Staffing Resources at Michigan Medicine and wrote a book about raising a special-needs child
Read more about Kelly MiltimoreU-M Heritage
Seeds of discontent
Already flourishing with students, professors and facilities, U-M was also determined to be the state’s agricultural school. It was a headiness that would fuel heated rhetoric and an animated rivalry that continues today between U-M and the school that prevailed as the agricultural school, Michigan State University.
Read a summary of this storyMichigan in the news
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Emphasizing brain health could be an important motivating factor for older Americans to regularly measure their blood pressure at home, says Deborah Levine, associate professor of internal medicine: “People are afraid of developing dementia or having a stroke. Data are emerging that high blood pressure is a risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia in later life. Some adults don’t know that.”
NBC Today -
“You let (gene therapy) out into the wild, and then all of these historical, societal and anthropological things are going to muck it up,” said Melissa Creary, assistant professor of health management and policy, whose research suggests that discussions about gene therapy, at least for sickle cell disease, must address big issues such as colonialism, slavery, racism, and “all the things that come from generations and generations of oppression.”
Scientific American -
“With the delta variant, you don’t need many unvaccinated folks to see a surge. Even in vaccinated people, there are definitely breakthroughs. That’s not a majority of vaccinated people or even a huge percentage, but people who got vaccinated early are seeing waning immunity,” said Vikas Parekh, professor of internal medicine and associate chief medical officer for Michigan Medicine.
The Detroit News
