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January 28, 2025
Applications open for Engage Detroit Workshops grants
The application process is now open for the 2025 Engage Detroit Workshops grant program. which provides up to $15,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series on a topic connecting U-M faculty and staff with Detroit communities.
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January 28, 2025
MHealthy Rewards offers incentives for questionnaire, goal setting
The MHealthy Rewards program is back, giving U-M employees the opportunity to learn about their health, create a healthy habit and earn a $75 incentive for completing a questionnaire and setting a healthy goal.
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January 27, 2025
Q&A: A look at transportation insecurity in Detroit and beyond
More than a third of Detroit residents can’t get from place to place in a safe or timely manner, according to a new study led by Alexandra Murphy of U-M’s Mcity and Poverty Solutions, and Lydia Wileden of the University of Connecticut.
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January 27, 2025
UMSI project helps community librarians create civic solutions
The Civic Librarian Project seeks to build on the tradition of library professionals as community problem-solvers by helping public librarians use 21st-century technology to address civic challenges.
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January 27, 2025
Nominations due Jan. 31 for Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prizes
Members of the U-M community have until Jan. 31 to nominate faculty members for the Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize, which draws attention to specific innovations that improve student learning.
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January 27, 2025
U-M research fellow, LSA lecturer can bust a move
Elliot Ratzman, a research fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and a lecturer in LSA, has been breakdancing since junior high school.
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January 27, 2025
It Happened at Michigan — Athletics kicked off with cricket
In 1860, students on U-M’s campus mobilized to form the school’s first official club sport, and it wasn’t football or baseball. It was cricket.
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January 27, 2025
Campus briefs
Short news items from around the University of Michigan.
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January 24, 2025
Report outlines vision for Detroit-Ann Arbor Innovation Corridor
A new report commissioned by U-M and the Detroit Regional Chamber highlights southeast Michigan’s potential to reclaim its status as a global leader in technological innovation and economic development.
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January 24, 2025
Virtual quadcopter allows ‘unprecedented’ level of control
U-M researchers are helping develop a brain-computer interface that when surgically placed in a research participant with tetraplegia can provide control over a virtual quadcopter.