Today's Headlines
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Arts Initiative receiving $20M to boost campus, regional efforts
U-M will allocate $20 million over five years for its Arts Initiative to expand access with new programs and projects to engage university audiences, bring more artists to campus, and support and amplify the arts more broadly.
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XR technology team to serve 2023 Taubman artist residency
Gibson/Martelli, a London-based team specializing in extended-reality technology, will be the 2023 artists in residency at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
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First-ever AR art exhibition on view at Humanities Gallery
An augmented reality art exhibition, “Traces,” from Camila Magrane, is on view at U-M’s Institute for the Humanities Gallery, using cell phones or tablets to explore the full story of the art on the gallery walls.
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Senate Assembly passes statement against anti-Asian racism
The U-M faculty’s Senate Assembly has approved a resolution condemning racism against those of Asian and Pacific Islander descent amid growing anti-Asian racism in the United States.
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Study: Anti-Chinese bias harms Asian American businesses
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M-ARC program aims to address teacher shortage issue
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Staff members assess Rackham DEI certificate program
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Squirrels that gamble win big in evolutionary fitness
Coming Events
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Jan 27
Digital Accessible Futures
Access Advocacy: A Crip Mentoring Roundtable, with Ruth Osorio, Sara M. Acevedo, Morenike Giwa Onaiwu and Rua M. Williams, noon-1 p.m.. virtual
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Jan 27
McKesson Foundation Health Equity Speaker Series
Bridging the Gap to Equity: Why It Should Matter To Us All, with Alvin Wells, director of the Rheumatology and Immunotherapy Center, noon-1 p.m., Weiser Hall, Room 170
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Jan 30
Faculty Symposium on Anti-Racism Research and Scholarship at U-M
Two-day, in-person symposium exploring anti-racism research and scholarship at U-M, 1-4 p.m., Michigan League Ballroom, also 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Jan. 31
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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“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
Read more about Petra KuppersU-M Heritage

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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“For your tax liability, it doesn’t matter. But if it really, literally, doesn’t matter, you might think it’s sort of random. I think it reflects social norms, that the man takes the primary role in the financial affairs of the couple,” said Joel Slemrod, professor of business economics, whose research found that only 12% of straight couples list the wife first as the primary taxpayer on a joint tax return.
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“Adolescent chimpanzees are in some sense facing the same psychological tempest that human teens are,” said Alexandra Rosati, associate professor of psychology and anthropology. “Our findings show that several key features of human adolescent psychology are also seen in our closest primate relatives.”
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“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.
Medical News Today