Today's Headlines
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Tabbye Chavous named next vice provost, chief diversity officer
Tabbye M. Chavous will become U-M’s next vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer, following a national search and campus community engagement efforts.
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Vicki Ellingrod to be next College of Pharmacy dean
Vicki Ellingrod, the John Gideon Searle Professor and professor of pharmacy, has been named the next dean of the College of Pharmacy.
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Colorado’s Leeds School dean to lead Ross School
Sharon F. Matusik, dean of the University of Colorado-Boulder’s Leeds School of Business, will be the new dean of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
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Visual artist Carlos Jackson appointed as Stamps dean
Carlos Francisco Jackson, a professor and associate dean in the University of California, Davis’ College of Letters and Science, has been appointed dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.
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Donna Hayward appointed interim leader of U-M Libraries
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Temporary recreation facility available during CCRB construction
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President’s house to get accessibility, preservation, security updates
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Spaces named in honor of two former university presidents
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Upjohn family gift honors Peony Garden flowers’ original donor
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Jacqueline Jeruss to lead OVPR research policy and compliance
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Board of Regents to head north for July meeting
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Regents approve faculty promotions
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Regents Roundup — May 2022
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Museum of Natural History looks at pandemic’s inequities
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$1.5M grant to support firearm injury prevention research
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Everything old is new again in exhibit of Greek manuscripts
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Road Scholars Tour resumes with faculty visiting communities
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Record reducing email, print publication for summer
Coming Events
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May 23
Nobel laureate Stanley Whittingham
“Overcoming Climate Change: The Critical Role and Challenges of Energy Storage,” 4:30-5:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium
Campus culture
A recording of the May 16 community assembly on U-M campus culture and values is now available. The session, “Restoring Trust and Building for the Future,” featured university leaders including President Mary Sue Coleman and members of the Culture Change Values Identification Working Group. In this video, they describe how community input is shaping work to strengthen university culture and identify a set of unifying shared values.
Read more about the community assemblySpotlight

“There’s horses where you say, ‘That probably won’t work,’ and there’s the ones where you say, ‘I need that horse.’”
— Esme Gregory, human resources assistant at the Institute for Social Research, who with her boyfriend owns and shows her eight Friesian mares and stud
Read more about Esme GregoryU-M Heritage

J-Hop’s rise and fall
Since its founding, the mid-year social event that became known as the Junior Hop, then simply and universally as J-Hop, had swelled into a glittering three-day-and-night festival. Nearly a century later in 1960, the future of the event was up the Student Government Council, which had a lot of history to consider.
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LaDonna Hendricks-Sparrow, clinical instructor of pediatrics, says the nationwide baby formula shortage may push parents to switch brands: “Generally speaking, if you have a baby who’s on a standard cow’s milk-based formula, switching formula brands is generally not an issue. As the formulas get more specialized for babies who have special needs … those become more challenging to find alternatives for.”
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“The U.S. does not protect your information just because it’s related to your health,” said Kayte Spector-Bagdady, associate director at the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology. “It only protects your health information that’s collected by your doctor or your hospital or your health plan. And if you are putting health information into somewhere other than a clinician’s form, in a clinic, it might not be protected.”
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“(It’s) important to think about our educational system and the ways in which we educate young people to understand the importance and value of diversity … that we all lose when we operate in an environment of hate,” said Celeste Watkins-Hayes, professor of public policy and sociology. “There’s much to gain by celebrating our diversity … thinking about how opportunity can be expanded and how we can work on being a better society.”
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