Open houses to be part of bicentennial A-maizing Building Tours
As part of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial A-maizing Building Tours, the university will hold open houses at the Detroit Observatory and the Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory. Open houses for the observatory will take place from 9-10:30 p.m. Friday, and from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, at 1398 E. Ann St. On Friday, tickets will be handed out at the door to guests wishing to look through the Fitz telescope. The open houses at Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory will take place from 3-5 p.m. Thursday at the laboratory, 1085 S. University Ave. For more information, visit tinyurl.com/l43hj5a.
College of Pharmacy to host safe medication disposal event
The College of Pharmacy will host its biannual drug disposal event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday. During the event, members of the university community will be able to drop off unused and expired medications for environmentally safe disposal. Two collection sites will be available: across from Ingalls Mall on North University Avenue and in Room G064, Building 10, at the North Campus Research Complex. Accepted items include prescription and over-the-counter medications, medication samples, vitamins, ointments and lotions, inhalers, antibiotics, steroids, veterinary medicine and controlled medications. Unaccepted items include sunscreen, insect repellent, cosmetics, hair care or personal hygiene products, hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol, aerosol cans, blood or infectious waste, tobacco and sharps containers. More information is available at myumi.ch/J2voX.
IRWG announces 26 graduate student research awards
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies have awarded funding to graduate students for wide-ranging projects related to women, gender and sexuality. IRWG/Rackham Graduate Student Research Awards and IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars summer fellowships were granted to 24 students from 16 disciplines, broadly ranging from the social sciences to the humanities and performing arts. Two Boyd/Williams Dissertation Grants for Research on Women and Work were awarded to Charnan Williams and Patrick Meehan. The graduate students were selected from a highly competitive pool. Their diverse set of projects demonstrates the scope of women and gender studies at U-M. To read more about the Rackham graduate students and their projects, go to tinyurl.com/lmnmzcp.
UM-Dearborn faculty members earn $240K NSF grant
Two University of Michigan-Dearborn mathematics professors were recently awarded a $240,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for their Research Experience for Undergraduates summer program. Two years ago, Yunus Zeytuncu, assistant professor of mathematics, College of Arts, Sciences and Letters; and Hyejin Kim, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, CASL, started the program to make it easier for students to engage in research. Through the program, talented UM-Dearborn students are given the chance to make research their summer job, and are provided a stipend, and room and board. The NSF grant allows Zeytuncu and Kim to double the size of their REU cohort, as well as help them bring in expert guest speakers, offer GRE-focused training and send more students to competitive conferences.
— Compiled by Safiya Merchant, The University Record
