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November 30, 2022

Addressing the housing crisis

Access to quality housing is essential to our well-being and the gateway to resources. Unfortunately, this basic necessity remains out of reach for far too many families, creating an ongoing crisis plaguing millions of Americans. With its tremendous breadth of researchers, faculty, and students combined with robust community partnerships, U-M is uniquely positioned to lead the charge addressing this crisis. (Photo by Ken Lund)

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November 22, 2022

Management as a calling

Andrew Hoffman, Holcim (US) Inc. Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, recently took a cohort of students from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business to U-M’s Biological Station on Douglas Lake in northern Michigan. The goal for the lakeside retreat: to remove distractions, encourage reflection, and embrace a moral compass to explore professions that promote commerce and serve society. In this video, Hoffman, who also is a professor of management and organizations, and professor of environment and sustainability, and his students discuss the program and what they hope to achieve from it.

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November 21, 2022

Cyber vulnerability

A new attack discovered by the University of Michigan and NASA exploits a trusted network technology to create unexpected and potentially catastrophic behavior. The technology is widely used in critical infrastructures such as spacecraft, aircraft, energy generation systems and industrial control systems. In this video, Baris Kasikci, the Morris Wellman Faculty Development Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, discusses the test that exposed the vulnerability.

Leadership Welcome

President Santa J. Ono delivered his first Leadership Welcome Nov. 17, outlining his strategic vision and a variety of new initiatives. This video of his full address was delivered in a campuswide livestream.

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November 16, 2022

Climate and health

The impacts of climate change increasingly threaten the pillars of human health: the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the shelters we call home, and the land on which we live. In this video, members of U-M’s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation — Carina Gronlund of the Institute for Social Research, Sue Anne Bell of the School of Nursing, and Richard Hirth of the School of Public Health — discuss their recent and ongoing work examining climate change-related health impacts.

President’s November message

President Santa J. Ono delivers the first of what he plans will be monthly video messages to the U-M community. In this video, he talks about what drew him to the university, things for which we should be thankful, and reminds viewers to watch his Leadership Welcome online Nov. 17.

November 14, 2022

MBioFAR Award winners

Top row from left, Sami Barmada, Jianping Fu, Costas Lyssiotis and, bottom row from left, James Moon, Alison Narayan and Elizabeth Speliotes are recipients of the 2022 Mid-career Biosciences Faculty Achievement Recognition Award. The award, which recognizes exceptional mid-career faculty in the biosciences, provides discretionary funds — $250,000 per year for two years for each awardee — to encourage innovative, high-risk research.

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November 10, 2022

Getting to know Tabbye Chavous

Tabbye Chavous became U-M’s vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer in August. A professor of education and of psychology, Chavous most recently was director of the National Center for Institutional Diversity and associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion in. In this Q&A interview, she reflects on her personal experiences and DEI efforts at U-M.

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November 9, 2022

Election Day 2022

Voters took to the polls at various locations across the Ann Arbor campus on Nov. 8 to cast their ballots in the 2022 midterm election. The Ann Arbor City Clerk operated two satellite offices on campus, including at the Duderstadt Center on North Campus where students lined up to register and complete their ballots. (Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)

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November 8, 2022

Go Blue and go vote

Election Day is here, with a variety of races at the statewide, congressional, legislative and local levels. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. for in-person voting, and absentee ballots can be dropped off at city or township clerks’ offices until 8 p.m. In this video, Martino Harmon, vice president for student life; Chris Kolb, vice president for government relations; and a host of students explain their reasons for voting.