Today's Headlines
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U-M will require COVID-19 vaccination on all campuses
All students, faculty and staff on U-M’s three campuses and at Michigan Medicine must be vaccinated against COVID-19 and submit their vaccination information before the fall term starts Aug. 30.
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Law School’s David Uhlmann nominated for EPA post
Law professor David Uhlmann has been nominated by President Biden to serve as assistant administrator for enforcement and compliance assurance at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Migration to Dropbox opens to faculty and staff July 30
Faculty and staff on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses who have not yet moved from U-M Box to U-M Dropbox can now begin the process using the Self-Service Migration tool.
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MIDAS joins Microsoft, city of Detroit to enhance digital inclusion
The Michigan Institute for Data Science will partner with Microsoft and the city of Detroit to expand digital equality by improving broadband internet access and affordability in underserved areas across the Motor City.
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Research seed grants available to advance anti-racism scholarship
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Google Drive update to affect links to non-Google files
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New UM-Dearborn office coordinates campus academic resources
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UM-Flint recognized as veteran-friendly school
Coming Events
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Jul 26
Attend at Home — For the week of July 26
Each week, U-M’s Arts & Culture website highlights selected virtual events or exhibitions around the university, and some events that are reopening to in-person activity.
At home: Shrinking Cities in the U.S. and China: Challenges and Responses; Scott M. Peters, author of “Making Waves: Michigan’s Boat-Building Industry, 1865-2000”; “Commemorating the Greek War of Independence.”
In-person: Matthaei Botanical Gardens’ “A Garden of Earthy Delights”; Summer “7 at 7” Carillon Series.
The Record is suspending most daily Coming Events and its print-edition events calendar for the summer. All submitted campus events can be found at Happening @ Michigan.
Nature-inspired sculpture
“A Garden of Earthy Delights,” an installation of ceramic sculptures inspired by the habitats of the Great Lakes and the plants that grow in them, is now on view at U-M’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens. These are some of the 10 sculptures that are part of a collaborative exhibition marking the Ann Arbor Potters Guild’s 70th anniversary. (Photos by Jeri Hollister)
Read more about the installationSpotlight
“I like to pride myself as having the biggest collection of Ogunquit art in Michigan.”
— Darin Leese, a business systems analyst for My LINC through Information and Technology Services and an art collector
Read more about Darin LeeseThis Week in U-M History
Blue moon
Apollo 15 carried a U-M crew when it flew to the moon July 26, 1971, with Col. David R. Scott, Maj. Alfred Worden and Col. James Irwin. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the weeks of July 19-Aug. 8.
Read more about U-M in HistoryMichigan in the news
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“You might feel a nature connection by simply looking at the sky, a nearby tree, branches swaying in the wind, or ice crystals on the stem of a nearby winter shrub,” said MaryCarol Hunter, associate professor emerita of environment and sustainability, whose research shows that 20 to 30 minutes of exposure to nature several times a week lowers our stress hormones.
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“There is so much information that has come out about the COVID vaccine and it’s coming fast, it’s coming from a lot of different sources and it feels overwhelming. You can see why people might feel worried, a little confused and uncertain about what really is the best thing to do,” said Sarah Clark, co-director of the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health.
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“Oftentimes it’s not what you can do, but what you look like. Being an Asian, being a woman and being someone with a disability, I really do have to work many times harder to satisfy the general professional demands,” said Vivian Cheung, professor of pediatrics and human genetics.
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Major multinational corporations are often the only entities besides government with the clout to influence societal forces, said Jerry Davis, professor of management and organizations: “It’s very clear that some of the problems that we want to have solved are going to take scale, and that’s the kind of scale that only a government or a really big business can pull off. And if we don’t trust the government to do it, that just leaves Walmart and Amazon.”
Vox
