Today's Headlines
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Mcards deactivated for students not following testing requirements
Mcard access to non-residential campus buildings has been deactivated for 375 undergraduate students, due to their failure to comply with mandatory COVID-19 testing requirements.
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Agreements offer no-cost publishing opportunities to U-M authors
Two new three-year agreements between academic publishers and the Big Ten Academic Alliance are piloting new models for sustainable open access publishing.
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New challenge encourages participants to get better sleep
To help members of the U-M community improve their sleep habits, MHealthy has launched Good Night, Sleep Right, a new eight-week online challenge. Registration is open, and the challenge starts March 15.
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Salary, hiring freezes to ease with approved FY ’22 budget
When the new fiscal year begins, and subject to budget approval, U-M employees will again be eligible for merit raises and campus units will be able to begin to fill critical faculty and staff vacancies.
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Russel Lecture to explore children’s insight into the human mind
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U-M aims to increase participation during seventh Giving Blueday
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Michigan, Northwestern establish George Jewett Trophy
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Students saw record levels of anxiety, depression last fall
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Ford School’s Shobita Parthasarathy testifies before House panel
Coming Events
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Mar 1
Attend at Home — Week of March 1
Each week, U-M’s Arts & Culture website highlights selected virtual events or exhibitions around the university. This week includes: “Some Old Black Man” (encore); Café Shapiro; Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It; Xu Tiantian, DnA _Design and Architecture.
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Mar 3
The News from Poetry
In An Era of False Facts and True Fallacies, What’s to be Found in Art?, Residential College 2020-21 Annual Robertson Lecture with Laura Kasischke, 4-5:30 p.m.
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Mar 3
A timely confluence: The backstory of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine
Melissa Moore, chief scientific officer at Moderna Therapeutics, will speak at a virtual Center for RNA Biomedicine seminar, 4-5 p.m.
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Mar 4
The Movement for Economic Equity in Detroit
A School of Social Work ENGAGE virtual discussion with Eboni Taylor, DeWayne Wells and Alicia Farris, noon-1:30 p.m.
Explaining COVID variants
Throughout the pandemic, the public has been bombarded with terms like vaccine schedule, variants, mRNA, and more. In this video, Jason Pogue, clinical professor of pharmacy, explains what COVID variants are and how effective current vaccines may be against them.
Read a Q&A about common vaccine terms and definitionsFaculty/Staff Spotlight

“The task of putting it back together again didn’t sound too hard at first, but there were a few catches involved.”
Dan Erickson, properties carpenter/artisan in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, who recently helped remount an elephant skeleton
Read more about Dan EricksonThis Week in U-M History

Mandatory movement
On March 1, 1943, students worked out as part of mandatory wartime physical education classes. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of March 1-7.
Read more about U-M in HistoryMichigan in the news
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“For decades, states have equalized the numbers of people their districts contain. But the GOP is now pushing to equalize districts’ citizen voting-age populations instead,” co-wrote Jowei Chen, associate professor of political science. “Minority representation would drop sharply if states equalized adult citizens rather than people. But the partisan balance of power would be largely unaffected.”
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Neurons activated during prior learning keep humming and building memories into the brain during sleep, say Sara Aton, associate professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, and doctoral student Brittany Clawson. “We would really like to know what’s facilitating that process of making a new association, like a particular set of neurons, or a particular stage of sleep. But for the longest time, there was really no way to test this experimentally,” Alton said.
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Craig Borum, professor of architecture, and Jen Maigret, associate professor of architecture, discussed ways to reinvent staid typologies in architecture. “We’re trying to work outside of commissions to think about ways of generating new knowledge or new approaches to materials, organization, the way we work, and then letting the practice inform some of those questions, but then also letting the research feed back into the way we think about projects,” Borum said.
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