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November 2, 2015
Marchers
Women cross the Diag in the 1950s with a banner for Sorosis, the professional women’s club.
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November 2, 2015
Campus briefs
News from around the university.
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November 2, 2015
Higher ed briefs
News from other Michigan public universities and U-M peer institutions across the nation.
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October 30, 2015
Diversity Summit public meetings open yearlong campus initiative
Bringing the U-M community together to inform and inspire its broad, ongoing effort to improve diversity, equity and inclusion is the goal of a Diversity Summit Nov. 4-13.
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October 30, 2015
Clues suggest hunting led to extinction of woolly mammoths
Chemical clues about weaning age embedded in the tusks of juvenile Siberian woolly mammoths suggest that hunting, rather than climate change, was the primary cause of the elephant-like animal’s extinction.
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October 30, 2015
Local leaders worry about retiree health care benefits
Health care benefits for retirees of Michigan’s local governmental units are presenting significant fiscal challenges, and more than half of local officials surveyed indicate they are concerned they won’t be able to fulfill their obligations.
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October 30, 2015
Prescription pain relievers place teens at risk for future drug misuse
High school students who legitimately use an opioid prescription are one-third more likely to abuse the drug by age 23 than those with no history of the prescription, according to a new University of Michigan study.
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October 30, 2015
Neuromonitoring graduates help surgeons perform safer operations
Joshua Mergos is the director of the Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Program at the University of Michigan, which recently became the only accredited IONM program in the world. The program, one of only three in the U.S., is a partnership between the U-M Health System Neurology Department and the School of Kinesiology.
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October 30, 2015
Obituary: Marcel Muller
Marcel Nicolas Muller, 89, professor emeritus of French, died at his home in Ann Arbor on Oct. 14. A world-renowned specialist in the works of Marcel Proust, Muller was a member of the Michigan faculty from 1966 until his retirement in 1995.
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October 30, 2015
Discovery of planet companions sheds new light on planet formation
For the past 20 years, astronomers peered into the night sky, puzzled about a type of planet called hot Jupiters.
