Today's Headlines
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Michigan Medicine notifies patients of health information breach
Michigan Medicine is notifying approximately 56,953 individuals about employee email accounts that were compromised, potentially exposing some patient health information.
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Accolades — July 2024
Awards and honors for faculty and staff from around U-M.
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Faculty Perspective: SACUA statement concerning President Ono’s summons to Washington
The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs has written a letter to President Santa J. Ono in advance of Ono’s interview with the Education and Workforce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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U-M issues Campus Connector request for qualifications
The university is inviting prospective partners to submit a request for qualifications for the design, construction and long-term operation of the core component of its Campus Connector concept.
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Regents approve six Distinguished University Professors
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Henry Russel Lecturer, award winners named for 2024
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Regents name University Diversity and Social Transformation Professors
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U-M, MSU create mid-Michigan neuroscience care network
Coming Events
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Jul 26
What’s going on?
Because there are fewer events on campus during the summer, the Record is reducing its Coming Events listings until the fall. Please visit Happening @ Michigan for a list of events the weeks of:
Discussing disability and accessibility
President Santa J. Ono used his July video message to share a discussion with Oluwaferanmi Okanlami, director of student accessibility and accommodation services in Student Life, about disability and accessibility at U-M. Ono also announced that Okanlami, who also is an assistant professor of family medicine, of physical medicine and rehabilitation, of urology and of orthopaedic surgery in the Medical School, is this month’s Portrait of a Wolverine.
Spotlight
“It’s crazy, the insane amount of dogs that end up as strays and end up in the shelter. You can find some of the most amazing dogs straight out of shelters.”
— Sarah Kucemba, an academic adviser in the College of Engineering who with three friends co-founded Underdog Rescue Ranch, a nonprofit dedicated to finding dogs loving homes
Read more about Sarah KucembaIt Happened at Michigan
Digitizing the University Library
The University Library already had a strong track record of digitizing materials when Google co-founder Larry Page proposed to digitize books by the millions in 2004. Page and the University Library did just that, and U-M became the first public university to participate in Google’s massive book digitization initiative.
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“I wanted a platform that’s readily available to most babies, and that could be used in existing neonatal intensive-care units,” said George Mychaliska, professor of pediatric surgery, whose team is developing an artificial placenta that focuses “on gas exchange and maintaining blood pressure, heart rate and fetal circulation while the premature organs are protected and continue developing.”
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“(The Brazil nut plant) is one of the 20 most-species rich families of trees in the Amazon forest, and third in terms of biomass providing important ecological services such as carbon sequestration and food resources for pollinators and seed dispersers,” said Diana Medellin-Zabala, a Ph.D. candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology, whose research is expanding the knowledge about neotropical biodiversity and its dynamics across time and space.
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“It is eerie that she could project forward 30 years and predict many of the events that we’ve seen over the past few decades long before they developed,” said Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, associate professor of education, about Octavia Butler’s 1993 “Parable of the Sower,” a dystopian novel that takes place in an America that has fallen victim to economic and environmental catastrophes.
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Ketra Armstrong, professor of sport management and director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport, says a new generation of athletes is pushing back against hair discrimination: “For a while, Black women have had to make themselves presentable in a way that wasn’t perceived to be unkept or unprofessional. Black women were judged by their hair, called not professional or not qualified. We’re at a point now where Black women are reclaiming their crown.”
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“(It can be used) to better modulate immune responses. And in our food allergy models, inulin gel has shown great efficacy,” said James Moon, professor of pharmaceutical sciences, whose team has been working on a new approach to treating allergies — using a plant-derived dietary fiber called inulin to interact with bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract.
WXYZ/Detroit
