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February 16, 2015
Campus briefs
News from around the university.
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February 16, 2015
Accolades
Awards and honors for U-M faculty and staff.
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February 16, 2015
The Lost Campus
The great American playwright Arthur Miller graduated from Michigan in 1938. When he returned in 1953, he was dismayed by the massive and unfamiliar new residence halls. “There are buildings now where I remembered lawn and trees,” he wrote. Each cadre of students at Michigan goes through Miller’s experience.
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February 16, 2015
SMTD, Stamps professor films musical with satirical twist
Although U-M faculty member Andy Kirshner filmed his movie “Liberty’s Secret: The 100% All-American Musical” in Ann Arbor in late 2014, Liberty Smith has been Kirshner’s brainchild for the past six years.
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February 15, 2015
Kevin Hegarty appointed executive VP and chief financial officer
Kevin P. Hegarty, a longtime financial leader at the University of Texas at Austin, has been appointed U-M’s next executive vice president and chief financial officer.
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February 13, 2015
Faculty group endorses continued deployment of Canvas pilot
The Digital Innovation Advisory Group’s Digital Ecosystem Subcommittee, a faculty advisory committee, will help plan the transition from CTools to a new learning-management system called Canvas.
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February 13, 2015
Obituary: Dr. Sarla P. Kothary
Dr. Sarla P. Kothary, a researcher in the Department of Anesthesiology and Neurology, died Jan. 20 at home in her husband’s (Dr. Piyush C. Kothary) arms.
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February 13, 2015
Understanding antisocial traits that overlap helps predict behavior
It’s not surprising that teens involved in fighting, vandalism, theft and other bad behaviors often have problems later in life as adults. But predicting which kids will continue to get into trouble with the law or have psychiatric or drug problems can be challenging if specific childhood behaviors and traits are evaluated separately, according to a new University of Michigan study.
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February 12, 2015
University to receive $8.5M for renewed virtual reactor project
The College of Engineering will receive $8.5 million to continue a major role in a $121.5 million collaborative project to develop a virtual nuclear reactor.
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February 12, 2015
Health care project gets $1.4M Third Century Initiative grant
U-M researchers have received a $1.4 million, three-year Phase II grant from the Third Century Initiative to develop, test and deploy health care technologies.
