Today's Headlines
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New portal for faculty, staff textbook adoption coming
U-M faculty, instructors and staff will transition to an online textbook and course material selection platform designed to personalize the process and promote affordable alternatives for students.
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MHealthy campaign promotes positivity with simple acts of kindness
Simple actions, like making eye contact and smiling, greeting one another by name, and saying thank you can help to build trust, enhance collaboration and improve your mood.
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Institute for the Humanities receives $1.14M grant for ‘High Stakes Art’
The Institute for the Humanities has been awarded a four-year, $1.14 million grant to support “High Stakes Art,” a project designed to enhance exhibitions and programming at the institute.
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Michigan Medicine will build new 12-story adult inpatient hospital
Michigan Medicine will build a new adult hospital that will increase patient access and transform medical and surgical care at U-M’s academic medical center in Ann Arbor.
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University Diversity and Social Transformation Professors named
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Paul Erickson named director of Clements Library
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Professors Chavous, Sen join Office of Research leadership
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Nearly half have completed sexual, gender misconduct awareness training
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Health system adds more bus and shuttle options for employees
Coming Events
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Sep 23
Other Crusoes, Other Islands
Exhibition Opening with a panel discussion and Q&A, 5:30-7 p.m., Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery
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Sep 24
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
With award-winning journalist and historian Garrett Graff, 7-9 p.m., Gerald Ford Library
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Oct 10
American University of Beirut
“Lifting the Quality of Health Across the Middle East and North Africa Region” with Fadlo R. Khuri, president, American University of Beirut, 10-11:30 a.m., Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building, Kahn Auditorium
Being well in the Big House
Hundreds of faculty and staff turned out Sept. 20 for MHealthy’s annual Be Well in the Big House event. This yoga class was among the football drills, yoga, Zumba and strength training classes that took place on on the Michigan Stadium field, while cardio drumming, meditation and other health- and wellness-related activities happened on the concourse. (Photos by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)
View more photos from Be Well in the Big HouseFaculty/Staff Spotlight
“In both my aspiring career as an environmental educator and my life as an artist, I strive to help people see the magic in the mundane.”
Esha Biswas, student affairs coordinator of the Residential College
Read more about Esha BiswasThis Week in U-M History
First collegiate-level classes
The first collegiate-level classes began Sept. 25, 1841, in Ann Arbor, with six students enrolled. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of Sept. 23-29.
Read more about this week in U-M historyMichigan in the news
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“We were surprised that the climate sensitivity increased as much as it did with increasing carbon dioxide levels. It is a scary finding because it indicates that the temperature response to an increase in carbon dioxide in the future might be larger than the response to the same increase in CO2 now,” said Jiang Zhu, research fellow in earth and environmental sciences, whose climate model of a period 50 million years ago provides the most detailed picture yet of how temperatures rose to 14 degrees Celsius above what they are today.
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Peter Adriaens, professor civil and environmental engineering, says a federal rollback of emission standards will likely affect auto companies’ positions in the stock and capital markets and make it harder to sell more fuel-efficient cars: “Are you sure you’re going to be able to recoup all that investment if there is no policy that says you should go towards more fuel-efficient cars?”
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“We have a stark choice — leave them a world being destroyed by fossil fuels, or a world that is more sustainable, just, and powered by clean energy. The world’s youth understand this and are making sure we all understand it. Their activism is making a real difference,” said Jonathan Overpeck, professor and dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability.
ABC News
