Today's Headlines
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Susan Alcock recommended as UM-Dearborn provost
UM-Dearborn Chancellor Domenico Grasso has recommended the appointment of Susan E. Alcock as UM-Dearborn’s next provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, effective Jan. 1, 2020.
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U-M, state launch website to guide safe pain treatment
U-M’s Injury Prevention Center helped launch an online toolkit that provides health providers and patients with guidance to make pain care safer, prevent opioid-related harms, and find substance use treatment.
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CRIME ALERT: Attempted armed robbery and motor vehicle theft, 11-19-19
Approximately 12:40 a.m. Nov. 19, Packard Street and Greenwood Avenue and Dewey Avenue, off campus.
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Faculty members question draft sexual misconduct policy
U-M faculty members posed questions and offered input on the university’s draft umbrella policy on sexual and gender-based misconduct during a Faculty Senate meeting.
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U-M is top Big Ten school for students studying abroad
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Economic Growth Institute recognized for aiding Michigan businesses
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U-M part of statewide effort to increase voting on college campuses
Coming Events
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Nov 20
Why Are Buddha Statues So Big?
Space, Time, and Unusual Human Bodies in Buddhism, with Reiko Ohnuma of Dartmouth College, 4-5:30 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre
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Nov 21
Ripple Effect
Communicating Water Quality Data through Art, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Duderstadt Center, includes related events
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Nov 21
On Freedom and Risk
Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez, Penny Stamps Speaker Series, 5:10-6:30 p.m., Michigan Theater
Firefighting drones
To monitor and stop the spread of wildfires, College of Engineering graduate students helped develop unmanned aerial vehicles that could find, map and report fires. One day UAVs could work with disaster response units, firefighters and other emergency teams to provide real-time accurate information to reduce damage and save lives. The graduate students won first place at a competition for using a swarm of UAVs to successfully map and report simulated wildfires. In this video, the graduate students talk about their work and its application in real-world scenarios.
Faculty/Staff Spotlight
“I hope to show that not just the specific content of the class is interesting, but that, if you pay close attention, your whole world will turn out to be very, very interesting.”
Howard Tsai, project coordinator and lecturer at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Read more about Howard TsaiThis Week in U-M History
‘Operation Haircut’
On Nov. 24, 1947, students launched “Operation Haircut” to call out local barbershops that refused to serve African Americans. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of Nov. 18-24.
Read more about U-M in HistoryMichigan in the news
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“We really haven’t done a good job of getting the word out that there really are things you can do to lower your risk,” said Donovan Maust, associate professor of psychiatry, whose research shows that many older American adults inaccurately estimate their chances for developing dementia, and don’t understand the connection between physical health and brain health, and how racial differences can affect dementia risk.
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“As Democrats debate the best way to achieve universal coverage and lower health care costs, the Trump administration has a different approach to the challenges of our current system. It’s working overtime to make the system more fragile for the sick and the poor, even as it misrepresents to Congress and the American public what it’s up to. … That’s the ugly truth,” wrote Nicholas Bagley, professor of law.
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William Lopez, assistant professor of health education and health behavior, says that in the aftermath of immigration deportation raids, many community members begin to distrust social service organizations: “There’s this tension of like, can I trust the police if I’m this particular race or if I’m this particular immigration status? … Can I trust even local clinics with my immigration status information?”
National Public Radio
