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  • Mar 21

    The Charcuterie Board Show

    Each story performed on stage by the RC Players serves as a unique ingredient on this metaphorical charcuterie board; 8-10:30 p.m. March 21-22; East Quadrangle, Keene Theater

  • Mar 23

    Painting the Scene Inside: Artist Talk

    Panel discussion with past Prison Creative Arts Project contributors; 1:30-2:30 p.m.; Chrysler Center, Chesebrough Auditorium.

  • Mar 24

    Russia Beyond Putin

    Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician, author, historian, and former political prisoner, will speak about Russia under Putin; 5:30-7 p.m.; Rackham Graduate School Amphitheatre

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Spotlight

“One of the most challenging things in our history has been sticking to our guns because we are an atypical instrumentation. But our secret sauce is that Akropolis is a family.”

— Andrew Koeppe, a research technician associate for Michigan Medicine who with Kary Landry, lecturer in SMTD, won a Grammy with their reed quintet

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It Happened at Michigan

A photo of action from the 1989 NCAA men's basketball championship game

When the Wolverines won it all in 1989

When March Madness begins, and 68 Division I men’s basketball teams will vie to become national champion. The U-M men’s team has made it to the championship game seven times since the NCAA Tournament began in 1939, winning it all in 1989 — its first and, so far, only national championship.

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Michigan in the news

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    • Pamela Herd

    “It’s the move fast and break things approach, without really thinking through the implications of a range of different choices you are making. So they tell everyone to return to work without considering the fact that they don’t have the space to accommodate everyone,” said Pam Herd, professor of public policy, about the Trump administration’s return-to-office order for hundreds of thousands of federal employees after years of working from home. 

    Reuters
    • Javed Ali

    “Hezbollah is trying to take advantage of the new government’s weakness in Syria, but the group itself is in a precarious position. It has suffered major setbacks from Israeli strikes, the fall of Assad, and now new adversaries in Syria,” said Javed Ali, clinical associate professor of public policy, about the Shiite terrorist force backed by Iran.

    Fox News
    • Shobita Parthasarathy

    “It’s a very bad idea. We don’t know anything about how AI would make such decisions (including how it was trained and the underlying algorithms), the data on which such decisions would be based, or why we should believe it is trustworthy,” said Shobita Parthasarathy, professor of public policy, on DOGE chief Elon Musk’s push to use artificial intelligence to decide which government employees should be fired.

    The Economic Times (India)