Today's Headlines
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Campus bus system to restore pre-pandemic routes Oct. 24
Logistics, Transportation & Parking will make major changes to campus bus service starting Oct. 24, restoring pre-pandemic bus routes and discontinuing a half-dozen routes currently operating.
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CRIME ALERT — Home invasion and sexual assault, 09-24-21
Approximately 1 a.m., Sept. 24, at a residence in the 500 block of Lawrence Street.
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Ann Arbor campus COVID activity trending downward
The number of COVID-19 cases on U-M’s Ann Arbor campus is trending downward as the university community rounds out its first month of a more traditional fall experience with robust in-person teaching and events.
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Regents announce 3 percent raise for U-M president
The Board of Regents has announced that President Mark Schlissel would get a 3 percent salary increase. The announcement comes as Schlissel begins his eighth academic year leading U-M.
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Dotson named University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
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Prosser, Thün join OVPR leadership team as research AVPs
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DPSS issues update on status of task force recommendations
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Regents Roundup — September 2021
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U-M adopts policy, procedures for addressing misconduct
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Grants from OVPR, NCID advance anti-racism research, scholarship
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Rachel Niemer to direct Women in Science and Engineering
Coming Events
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Sep 27
Environmental and climate justice
With Jacqueline Patterson of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program and Kyle Whyte, professor of environment and sustainability, 4-5 p.m., virtual
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Sep 28
Hybrid Work Cultures, Best Practices and Barriers
An Empowering Blue discussion for faculty and staff, 10-11 a.m., virtual
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Sep 28
Addressing Sexual Misconduct at the University of Michigan
A panel discussion with university leaders about new directions and possibilities, noon-1 p.m., virtual
Earthfest 2021
Clark McCall of Recreational Sports talks with Summer Nguyen, an undergraduate in the School of Information, at a booth during Earthfest 2021. While the day was wet and chilly, members of the U-M campus community still turned out Sept. 23 for the annual fall celebration of campus sustainability efforts. (Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography)
View a gallery of images from EarthfestSpotlight
“Every student I met with the following day made it a point to say it went viral, and I didn’t even know what that meant.”
— Ryan Ball, clinical assistant professor of business administration in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business who used a potato filter in a recent study session and a student posted videos of it to TikTok
Read more about Ryan BallU-M Heritage
Of splendid ability
When she stepped foot on the Michigan campus in September 1876, Mary Henrietta Graham became the first Black woman to attend the university. Her senior year, Professor Alexander Winchell published a book claiming Black people were inferior.
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Despite the pandemic’s economic hardships, the percentage of Michiganders living in poverty dropped from 11.7 percent in 2019 to 8.8 percent last year, thanks mostly to stimulus checks and expanded unemployment benefits, says Kristin Seefeldt, associate professor of social work and public policy: “The fact that we made these payments available really helped families out and probably kept things from being worse than they could have been.”
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“Wall Street banks should brace for a more aggressive supervisory and enforcement environment,” said Jeremy Kress, assistant professor of business law. “Banks have gotten the benefit of the doubt for the last four years. That’s probably over.”
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“When your overall business plan is really more about profits, and children are an afterthought, those are not the people that I want designing my next product that has lots of high-stakes risks about children’s development in terms of how they develop their sense of self, their social interactions, and their online presence and their privacy,” said Jenny Radesky, assistant professor of pediatrics, on Facebook’s plans to launch an Instagram for kids under 13.
The Hill
