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2022 Road Scholars Tour

Group photo of 2022 Road Scholars

The annual Michigan Road Scholars Tour resumed this year after a two-year pause during the COVID-19 pandemic. From May 2-6, faculty members from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses toured the state, heard directly from community members and discussed a wide range of topics. Stops included Lansing, Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Traverse City, Pellston, Sault Ste. Marie, Brimley, Midland, Warren and Detroit.

The 2022 Road Scholars, pictured on the Capitol steps in Lansing, are: front row, from left, Kristi Thomas, LaSonia Forté; second row, Rodney Vergotine, Lawrence Seiford, Wendy Tremaine, Antonios Koumpias, Ambrielle Stoltz-Bango; third row, Randal Singer, Brendan Nieubuurt, Cyril Grum, Michela Arnaboldi, Gabriela Marcu, Prakash Sathe, Paul Reingold; fourth row, Folafoluwa Odetola, Heidi Buchele, Nicole Appleberry. (Photo by Dana Sitzler)

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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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    “This is gonna be a shot in the arm for a lot of the pro-reproductive rights organizations. I don’t know whether or not there’ll be a counter-mobilization that’s really going to work for the anti-abortion groups,” said Richard Hall, professor of political science and public policy, on the surge in donations to abortion rights groups and mobilization of pro-choice voters.

    USA Today

    COVID-19 cases in Michigan are up because the latest subvariant is so contagious and people are having much more contact with one another, says Laraine Washer, clinical professor of internal medicine and infectious diseases: “In Michigan at least, there’s much less mask wearing. There’s more interaction, and so more opportunity for a highly contagious subvariant to spread … with these subvariants, reinfection is possible.”

    CBC (Canada)
    • Riana Anderson

    “We need to have conversations with our children at the dinner table, in our schools, in our mentoring groups, to let them know that all lives have human value, and that we should not dehumanize the lives of Black and Brown and Asian folk,” said Riana Anderson, assistant professor of health behavior and health education.

    WDIV/Detroit