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October 12, 2020
DEI Summit to view anti-racism through artistic prism
The theme for U-M’s 2020 DEI Summit is “Arts + Social Change: Building an Anti-Racist World through the Arts,” which will be featured at a virtual campuswide community assembly Oct. 26.
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October 12, 2020
Study Spaces helps students succeed while social distancing
The university has launched Study Spaces at U-M, a web-based space reservation system to help students find and reserve designated individual study spaces or computer stations on North and Central campuses.
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October 12, 2020
Sarah Goddard Power, Rhetaugh Dumas award nominations sought
The Academic Women’s Caucus is accepting nominations from the university community for the 2021 Sarah Goddard Power and Rhetaugh G. Dumas Progress in Diversifying awards.
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October 12, 2020
Professor rolls with changes in the digital media world
Lisa Nakamura, who began teaching courses about digital media in 2001 and at U-M in 2012, helped create a digital studies minor to provide recognition for students who had spent so much time researching it.
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October 12, 2020
This Week in U-M History — Oct. 12-18
On Oct. 17, 1918, President Harry B. Hutchins issued a campuswide order to wear face masks to combat the influenza pandemic. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of Oct. 12-18.
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October 12, 2020
Obituary — George Wieland
George Wieland, a retired study director at the Institute for Social Research and associate research scientist at the School of Public Health, died Sept. 29, 2020, at the age of 84.
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October 12, 2020
Police Beat — Oct. 12, 2020
Fourth-degree sexual assault reported at Bursley Residence Hall On Sept. 11, a student reported that she was inappropriately touched by a person known to her on Oct. 1, 2017. This case is currently under investigation. — Melissa Overton, Division of Public Safety and Security Ann Arbor campus major crimes, by category, reported to U-M Police… -
October 12, 2020
Campus briefs
Short news items from around the University of Michigan.
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October 11, 2020
Three regent candidates make their case at virtual forum
Candidates running for two seats on the Board of Regents talked about a variety of issues including the COVID-19 pandemic, tuition increases and systemic racism during an online candidate forum.
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October 9, 2020
U-M shifts to saliva-based surveillance testing for COVID-19
Getting tested for COVID-19 at U-M is getting faster and more convenient as the university shifts it surveillance program to a saliva-based method to increase testing capacity to 6,000 people weekly.