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November 2, 2015
Blue Jeans adds HIPAA compliance to conferencing service
Blue Jeans conferencing technology now is an option for members of the university community who deal with health information protected under HIPAA.
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November 2, 2015
Stamps professor has designs on visual storytelling
On any given day, we halt for stoplights, yield to passing cars and follow street signs. Every day, we follow the rules set forth by society. This unconscious interaction between people and the built environment is what attracted Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo to the world of design and what ultimately brought him to the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.
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November 2, 2015
Don’t Miss: Photo exhibit celebrates people of Iran
In May 2015, Sally Bjork, photographer at the U-M Department of the History of Art’s Visual Resources Collections, joined a 16-day tour through Iran with the support of the Department’s Freer Fund. Bjork’s images are celebrated in the exhibit “This, too, is Iran.”
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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.
