Today's Headlines
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U-M drafts umbrella sexual, gender-based misconduct policy for all campuses
The university has released a draft umbrella policy for addressing sexual and gender-based misconduct that would apply to students, faculty, staff and third parties on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses.
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Student survey on sexual misconduct provides new knowledge
The latest survey of students at U-M’s Ann Arbor campus regarding sexual misconduct provides new knowledge on nonconsensual experiences before students arrive on campus, and measures changes in its prevalence at U-M and which groups are most at-risk.
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Ecologist receives Packard Fellowship to study sustainable Bahamas fisheries
U-M marine ecologist Jacob Allgeier is among 22 early career scientists and engineers named as 2019 recipients of the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering.
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Artist creating mural depicting U-M’s first African-American student
Detroit artist Tylonn J. Sawyer is working with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African-American student admitted to the university.
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U-M to host presidential debate next October
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Tech Transfer activity sets records in fiscal year 2019
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University earns HEED Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity
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Search underway for next vice president for student life
Coming Events
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Oct 15
Prechter Bipolar Research Program Lecture
With Pete Earley, author of “Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness,” 6-9 p.m., Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building, Kahn Auditorium
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Oct 16
Michigan Union 100th Birthday Celebration
Sign a giant birthday card, enjoy cupcakes and learn more about the reopening of the Union, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Diag, Central Campus
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Oct 16
Queer Expectations: a Genealogy of Jewish Women’s Poetry
Lecture and discussion with Zohar Weiman-Kelman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 4-5:30 p.m., Rackham Graduate School, East Conference Room
A robotic docent
Faculty, staff and students from the U-M Museum of Art and the College of Engineering’s Robotics Institute are joining forces to develop a robot that could serve as a docent. The project is still in the design stages, but members are working to ensure the robot can navigate autonomously throughout the museum and abide by social norms, such as weaving around a group of people instead of cutting through them, and working to figure out how a robot might communicate with a museum guest, incorporating language and communication tactics that a docent might use. (Photo by Mark Gjukich)
Read more about robots in the museumFaculty/Staff Spotlight
“Having English students learn typesetting gives them opportunities to re-encounter language as a physical, visual process.”
Fritz Swanson, lecturer II in the Department of English Language and Literature and founder of Wolverine Press
Read more about Fritz SwansonThis Week in U-M History
Mobilizing ‘Minutemen’
On Oct. 15, 1942, students volunteered for the War Manpower Mobilization Corps, the “Minutemen of the Campus.” Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of Oct. 14-20.
Read more about U-M in HistoryMichigan in the news
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Research by Jason Goldstick, a research assistant professor of emergency medicine, and colleagues found that the rate at which Americans died from firearm injuries increased by about 14 percent from 2015-17 and that nearly a quarter of all gun-related deaths since 1999 happened in just those three years.
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“We are going to be working directly with individual schools, looking at their unique contexts. So we need all those voices all around the table, all those different voices that will help us implement with the best fidelity,” said Justin Heinze, assistant professor of health behavior and health education, who will co-lead a new national research and training center on school safety at U-M.
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A team of scientists led by Meha Jain, assistant professor of environment and sustainability, has successfully used data from microsatellites to quantify and enhance yield gains for small farmers in India — a discovery that can help increase food production in a low-cost and sustainable way.
India TV
