Fall farmers markets celebrate healthy eating, sustainable living
There will be four expanded M Farmers Market events on campus this fall. The events will take place twice each on Central Campus and North Campus from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., and demonstrations on cooking with healthy, local foods will take place at 11 a.m. on the following days: Sept. 15, Central Campus, South Ingalls Mall; Sept. 29, North Campus, Duderstadt Patio; Oct. 13, Central Campus, South Ingalls Mall; Oct. 27, North Campus, Duderstadt Patio. The markets are a collaboration among Michigan Dining, Central Student Government, MHealthy, Planet Blue and the Office of Campus Sustainability.
U-M Heritage Project honored with historical award
The U-M Heritage Project, a multimedia website that explores the university’s past, has been honored with the Historical Society of Michigan’s highest award. The Heritage Project will receive a 2016 State History Award at the Historical Society’s annual State History Conference in Alpena Sept. 23. The awards are the highest recognition presented by the state’s official historical society and oldest cultural organization. The Historical Society presents the awards every year to individuals and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to the appreciation, collection, preservation or promotion of state and local history. The Heritage Project, heritage.umich.edu, is being recognized as the best website of 2016. It features a collection of stories that provide a digital experience of the university’s past and serves to identify relationships between the state of Michigan and its oldest university.
Call for all staff to join bicentennial photo shoot
Celebrate 200 years of Michigan staff by showing bicentennial year spirit. Be part of a photo session at Michigan Stadium on Wednesday, Sept. 28, from 8:30-9 a.m. As many staff members as possible are needed to help spell out a huge “200” on the football field. Wear maize and blue colors and enter via the east side entrance of the stadium promptly at 8:30 a.m. This photo session is part of the yearlong celebration of the university’s bicentennial in 2017 that will include MStaff200, an event honoring U-M staff, planned to take place June 27, 2017, on the Diag. For more information, contact MStaff200@umich.edu.
Funding available for data set acquisition
The new Data Acquisition for Data Science program supports acquisition, preparation, management, and maintenance of specialized research data sets used in current and future data science-enabled research projects across U-M, with special focus on the four challenge initiative areas pursued by the Michigan Institute for Data Science: transportation science, health science, social science, and learning analytics. DADS is meant to provide datasets that can be used by multiple U-M researchers and departments. DADS is funded through the Data Science Initiative; total funding is capped at $200,000 per year for five years. DADS will be managed jointly by the Library and Advanced Research Computing, with support from ARC’s Consulting for Statistics, Computing, and Analytics Research, MIDAS, and ARC-Technology Services units. For more information, see arc.umich.edu/dads.
Record welcomes Faculty and Staff Spotlight ideas
The University Record’s weekly Faculty and Staff Spotlight series celebrates interesting, inspired people who work at U-M. To find them, the Record needs help from the campus community. For Staff Spotlights, the Record seeks candidates with interesting jobs who do not manage full-time employees. They also do interesting things outside of work. For Faculty Spotlights, the Record seeks educators who are passionate about their work, who may have an original approach and who may make an impact outside the classroom. The Record does not feature U-M communicators in the Spotlight series. Please send ideas and nominations to Record Editor Jill Greenberg, jillibog@umich.edu.
— Compiled by Jill A. Greenberg
