Ann Chih Lin named Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies director
The International Institute has announced that Ann Chih Lin, associate professor of public policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, has been appointed director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, effective Nov. 1. The center is one of the nation’s most prominent centers devoted to a deeper understanding of China, past and present. At the Ford School, Lin leads the graduate global experience course on current Chinese policy and teaches both graduate and undergraduate policy seminars on immigration and on voting. Her current work examines whether respondents across 18 countries blamed China or the U.S. for the COVID-19 pandemic; racial and ethnic difference in the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States; bias reduction against Muslims; and national security scapegoating of immigrant groups. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in 1994 and was the 1992-93 Robert W. Hartley Fellow in Governmental Studies at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Read more about Lin’s appointment online.
NSF commits $3M to diversifying STEM, continuing program led by U-M
As higher education continues to struggle with bringing people from Black, Latin American and Indigenous communities into science and technological careers, the federal government is re-upping its support for a collaborative effort in Michigan that has helped over 7,500 students earn degrees. The National Science Foundation has committed $3 million to fund the Michigan Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation for another five years. The alliance is one of over 50 such programs across the country focused on increasing the number of students from historically excluded communities who earn degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. U-M serves as the lead for this multi-institutional endeavor, which includes Michigan State University, Mott Community College, Washtenaw Community College, Wayne State University and Western Michigan University. Read more about this program online.
Researchers awarded NSF grant to study technology and artisan communities
A new research project co-led by Ron Eglash, professor of information and of art and design, and Audrey Bennett, professor of art and design and of communication and media, focuses on how technology can be used by artisans to empower, not replace, their labor. Eglash, Bennett and their co-PIs Mark Guzdial, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and of information, and Lionel Robert, associate professor of information, were awarded a $1.55 million grant from the National Science Foundation for their project “Race, Gender and Class Equity in the Future of Work: Automation for the Artisanal Economy.” The grant will extend over the next three years. During the project, the researchers will first work with artisans in Detroit on practical applications of technology for digital fabrication. Future research efforts will include experiments in production, supply chain, and strengthening entrepreneurship within the community by using technology to bolster artisan businesses. Read more about this project online.
E-violence increases through early adolescence but declines as teens become adults
Electronic dating violence — including electronic harassment, coercion and monitoring — starts increasing in preadolescence but curves as teens reach young adulthood, according to a new U-M study. The study looked at the three behaviors in students in two age groups (12-15 and 15-18) to determine how they experienced electronic dating violence. Electronic harassment includes messaging, calling and sending other items to illicit compliance via intimidation and fear tactics; electronic coercion is pressuring a partner to share sexual or illicit messages, pictures or videos; and electronic monitoring is the viewing, listening or reading of messages, images or videos of one’s partner. “We found that at age 12, youth are at risk of engaging in all three forms of electronic dating violence that we studied, and that between ninth and 10th grade — when youth are 15 to 16 years old — the risk of all three domains increases substantially. But we see that risk becomes somewhat constant or perhaps even declines after age 16,” said Elyse Thulin, a doctoral candidate at the School of Public Health.
University reminds campus community about basketball parking
With the men’s basketball season underway, U-M is asking that all personal vehicles be removed from signed areas in lots SC5 and SC6 near Crisler Center by 5 p.m. on weekday game days. Affected dates are Nov. 10, 16 and 24; Dec. 21; Jan. 11, 18 and 26; Feb. 1 and 23; and March 3. The university also asks that U-M vehicles be removed from lots SC4, SC5, SC6 and SC7 for weekday games and weekend games on Dec. 11, Jan. 8, and Feb. 12 and 27. University vehicles can be parked in SC36.
— Compiled by James Iseler, The University Record
