Free Mouth Guard Clinic
Athletes participating in sports this fall and winter can have a free, customized mouth guard made for them during the University of Michigan School of Dentistry’s annual Mouth Guard Clinic from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 16, at 1011 N. University Ave. Dental and dental hygiene students, supervised by clinical faculty members, will make mouth guards for the first 120 athletes who register, starting at 8 a.m. A parent or guardian must sign for children under 18. The wait time is up to 30 minutes. It takes about two hours to make, fit and have the mouth guard checked. Athletes may choose the color.
Collaboration encourages spread of open access publishing
The University of Michigan Library and Knowledge Unlatched, a not-for-profit company based in England, will collaborate to study and overcome remaining obstacles to the spread of open access scholarly publishing in the humanities and social sciences. U-M Library will provide a North American base for KU, which also has recently established presences in Germany and Australia. KU will have an office within U-M Library and Charles Watkinson, associate university librarian for publishing and director of University of Michigan Press, will join the board.
Vollano elected to Police Department Oversight Committee
Ann Vollano, assistant athletic director for compliance, has been elected as the non-bargained-for staff representative to the University of Michigan Police Department Oversight Committee for a two-year term beginning this month. The committee receives and makes recommendations on grievances against any police officer deputized by the university. The six-member oversight committee is comprised of two student members, two faculty members (one senate and one non-senate faculty), and two staff members (one union and one non-union), nominated and elected by their peers for two-year terms.
Regents meeting set for July 21
The Board of Regents will have its monthly meeting at 3 p.m. July 21 in the Anderson Room, Michigan Union. To offer public comment at the meeting, sign up in advance at regents.umich.edu/meetings/publform.html. Public comments on agenda items will be taken prior to their consideration. Comments on nonagenda items will follow the regular business agenda. People with disabilities who need assistance should contact the Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the University in advance at 734-763-8194. For more about regents meetings, go to regents.umich.edu.
Arts of Citizenship undergoes name change
The Rackham Graduate School has announced that the Arts of Citizenship program will be renamed the Rackham Program in Public Scholarship as of August. Arts of Citizenship was founded in 1998 to promote sustainable campus-community collaborations in the arts, culture and humanities between U-M faculty and students and community partners. Since becoming a program of the Rackham Graduate School in 2010, Arts of Citizenship has garnered student participation from 51 graduate degree programs across campus. In the past six years it has served 225 graduate students through the Institute for Social Change, Graduate Student Grants in Public Scholarship, the Engaged Pedagogy Initiative, and the Mellon Public Humanities Fellowships.
Med School, health-focused faculty sought for symposium
A contingent of medical scholars and researchers from China are headed Oct. 12-14 to Ann Arbor to meet with University of Michigan colleagues in the Joint Institute Symposium, about shared projects with potentially big implications on both sides of the globe. While this is a medical school collaboration with Peking University, organizers seek to expand the scope to faculty in other health-related fields and schools, including nursing and public health. To register, go to tinyurl.com/h5qk7eq.
Transportation, learning analytics projects get data science funding
Four research projects — two each in transportation and learning analytics — have been awarded funding in the first round of the Michigan Institute for Data Science Challenge Initiatives program. The projects will each receive $1.25 million from the Michigan Institute for Data Science Challenge Initiatives as part of the Data Science Initiative announced in fall 2015. The goal of the multiyear MIDAS Challenge Initiatives program is to foster data science projects that have the potential to prompt new partnerships between U-M, federal research agencies and industry.
