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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.

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Spotlight

Esme Gregory, human resources assistant at the Institute for Social Research, who with her boyfriend owns and shows her eight Friesian mares and stud

“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

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U-M Heritage

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. But nearly a century later in 1960, the future of the event was up the Student Government Council, who had a lot of history to consider.

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

    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.”

    Detroit Free Press
    • Kayte Spector-Bagdady

    “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.”

    Bloomberg Law
    • Celeste Watkins-Hayes

    “(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.”

    Australian Broadcast Corporation