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May 18, 2020
Police oversight panel seeks nominations for non-union staff seat
Nominations are being accepted through May 22 for a non-bargained-for staff representative to serve on the U-M Police Department Oversight Committee. Online voting will take place June 8-19.
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May 16, 2020
University to gradually reopen some research activity
Laboratory and studio-based research activity at U-M, the majority of which has been paused since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will gradually resume during the next several weeks.
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May 15, 2020
Documentary follows medical students through ‘Four Years of Blue’
In 2016, the Medical School welcomed 172 new doctors-in-training. Out of this group, 15 students agreed to be followed throughout all four years of their medical training.
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May 15, 2020
UM-Flint creates Center on Aging to foster collaborations
UM-Flint has created a Center on Aging to help faculty and students fund current research and community outreach related to seniors and aging, and to connect researchers seeking new collaborations.
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May 15, 2020
Faculty Perspective: Keep tenure protections robust
Kentaro Toyama, W.K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information at the School of Information, shares his concerns about some of the proposed changes to Regents’ Bylaws 5.09 and 5.10.
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May 14, 2020
University construction to resume following executive order
Construction crews have resumed U-M campus building projects that were in progress prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s recent executive order.
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May 14, 2020
Seven teams chosen to receive funding for COVID-19 research
The Michigan Institute for Data Science announced seven interdisciplinary teams, chosen from 49 submissions, will receive funding support of up to $30,000 for COVID-19 research.
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May 13, 2020
Other institutions join U-M effort to aid first-generation students
The Kessler Scholars Program, founded at U-M to transform the first-generation student experience, will expand to five other colleges and universities through a new collaboration.
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May 13, 2020
U-M dental students help improve dental hygiene in Kenya
Thirty U-M students immersed themselves in a learning and service journey to Kenya where the dental students taught older students proper dental hygiene, which they passed along to younger students.
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May 13, 2020
UM-Dearborn study finds wearing masks is about caring
To better understand people’s behavior when it comes to precautionary measures against COVID-19 like mask wearing, a business professor discovered most people choose to be socially responsible.
