Today's Headlines
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From President Ono: Our advocacy, responsibility and commitment
In a Feb. 14 email, President Santa J. Ono updated the university community about developments out of Washington, D.C. that could have important implications for U-M.
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Pharmacy, Michigan Medicine staffers win Candace Johnson Awards
Holly Jablonski from the College of Pharmacy and Janet Santos from Michigan Medicine have been named recipients of the 2024 Candace J. Johnson Award for Staff Excellence.
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U-M launches updated staff onboarding, orientation resources
The university has updated a New Employee Orientation module for Ann Arbor campus staff and launched a new onboarding website for all university staff and units.
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Two from CoE elected to National Academy of Engineering
College of Engineering faculty members Elizabeth Holm and Nicholas Kotov are among the newest members of the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest honors bestowed on U.S. engineers.
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Board of Regents to meet Feb. 20 at University Hall
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What would an NIH ‘indirect cost’ cap mean to the university?
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Latest salary study shows parity for men and women faculty
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U-M launches awards recognizing research safety excellence
Coming Events
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Feb 17
Colorism
A multimedia exhibit by Rogério Pinto of the School of Social Work; noon-6 p.m.; Duderstadt Center Gallery; runs through March 12
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Feb 18
Mind Matters: Navigating Pregnancy and Substance Use with Care and Support
With experts from U-M’s Partnering for the Future Clinic and Department of Psychiatry; 7-8:30 p.m.; virtual
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Feb 19
All the Presidents’ Money
Stories of financial trials and tribulations from the Oval Office, with author Megan Gorman; 6:30-8 p.m.; Gerald R. Ford Library, auditorium
Growing food and community
The UM-Dearborn Community Garden cultivates food sustainability skills, brings people together and stocks the UM-Dearborn Student Food Pantry with fresh produce. Located in the Environmental Interpretive Center’s Community Organic Garden, it also is addressing food insecurity among students. Above, UM-Dearborn alumna Daille Held, (left) and senior Sophia Hawkins spent summer 2024 Saturdays volunteering in the student-led community garden. (Photo courtesy of UM-Dearborn Office of Sustainability Programs)
Read more about the UM-Dearborn Community GardenSpotlight

“As I move toward retirement, I see life opening up. It might be the perfect time to start performing and singing regularly again.”
— Christina Fields, an administrative assistant at Michigan Medicine who envisions becoming a lounge singer in retirement and also dabbles in beading and jewelry making
Read more about Christina FieldsIt Happened at Michigan

The story behind U-M’s fight song
The rousing tune of “The Victors” is familiar to most U-M faculty and staff. What may be less widely known is the fight song’s origin. In November 1898, student Louis Elbel was in the stands when U-M’s football team beat the University of Chicago for an undefeated season. The song came to him during postgame revelry.
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“You can have the greatest $200 toothbrush that you want, and if you’re not using it properly, it’s not going to do any better job than someone who’s using a manual toothbrush effectively,” said Martha McComas, clinical associate professor of dentistry, weighing in on the rotating-vs.-sonic-electric-toothbrush debate.
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“Only a strong defense guarantee, such as admission to NATO, can lead to a durable end to the war. From the Ukrainian perspective, there have been multiple agreements that have been signed, all of them broken, and NATO is the only durable way to ensure Ukrainian sovereignty and security,” said Greta Uehling, lecturer in international and comparative studies.
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For a boycott — like the consumer spending blackout planned Feb. 28 to protest the elimination of corporate DEI efforts — to be successful, it needs a clear goal, target group and representative who can negotiate with the target, says Jerry Davis, professor of business: “Simply asking customers to stop buying a product to express disapproval is not likely to produce any recognizable change in what business does.”
USA Today