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March 16, 2015
Coaching great
Legendary men’s gymnastics coach Newt Loken — winner of two NCAA championships, 12 Big Ten titles and two Coach of the Year awards — leaps to promote the March 1979 Big Ten Championships at Crisler Arena.
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March 16, 2015
Higher ed briefs
News from other Michigan public universities and U-M peer institutions across the nation.
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March 16, 2015
Campus briefs
News from around the university.
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March 16, 2015
Accolades
Awards and honors for U-M faculty and staff.
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March 13, 2015
Build your own Siri: An open-source digital assistant
An open-source computing system you command with your voice like Apple’s Siri is designed to spark a new generation of “intelligent personal assistants” for wearables and other devices. It could also lead to much-needed advancements in the datacenter infrastructure to support them.
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March 13, 2015
Grants given for studies of adaptation to Great Lakes water-level changes
The University of Michigan’s Graham Sustainability Institute has awarded seven grants, totaling $70,000, to U.S. and Canadian researchers who will help residents of shoreline communities adapt to current and future variability in Great Lakes water levels.
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March 13, 2015
More than half of parents want to know disease risks for selves, kids
Would you want to know if you or your children had risk of hereditary cancer, a genetic risk for cardiovascular disease or carried the gene associated with developing Alzheimer’s disease — even if they were risks that wouldn’t be relevant for possibly decades or didn’t have a cure?
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March 13, 2015
U-M reduces use of traditional chemicals in land management
Continued sustainable land management efforts have resulted in a 54 percent reduction in the use of traditional chemicals on campus property in 2014.
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March 12, 2015
Religion and support for birth control health coverage can mix
New research debunks the assumption that a woman’s religion predicts her views on policies affecting reproductive health care such as insurance coverage for birth control.
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March 12, 2015
Election set for SACUA members, Senate secretary
The U-M faculty’s Senate Assembly will choose three new members of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs at its meeting Monday.
