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February 7, 2019 |
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The U-M Museum of Natural History has announced it will reopen to the public April 14 in its new home at the Biological Sciences Building. Favorite displays will mix with new exhibits in a state-of-the-art learning facility that combines billions of years of natural history with cutting-edge scientific research.
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 A team from Research Casting International of Toronto works to reassemble the Owosso mastodon in the Atrium of the Museum of Natural History, which will reopen in its new location, U-M’s new Biological Sciences Building, on April 14. (Photo by Michelle Andonian)
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More workplaces are being asked to use their considerable economic impact to address social issues, and how management is asked to help makes a difference, a U-M researcher says. David Mayer and his colleagues tested when and how moral language could be successful in selling social issues in the workplace.
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From listening to her parents chat around the dinner table to winning her own seat on the Dearborn City Council, politics has always been an important part of Erin Byrnes’ life. As democratic engagement lead for the Ginsberg Center, she uses that passion to help students stay informed and engaged.
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COMING EVENTS
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Feb. 7
Donia Human Rights Center Special Lecture to Launch the Robert J. Donia Graduate Student Fellowship with Samuel Moyn, professor of law and professor of history, Yale University, 4-5:30 p.m., Weiser Hall, Room 1010
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Research by Natasha Pilkauskas, assistant professor of public policy, shows that nuclear families — father, mother and dependent children — now make up less than 20 percent of American households due to a decline in marriage, an increase in single parenthood and a growing population of nonwhite Americans.
Hour Detroit
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“To say it was not about race is to say history doesn’t matter and there was this magic historical moment where all vestiges of a racialized housing market went away and everything started anew like the Book of Genesis,” said Matthew Lassiter, professor of history and urban and regional planning, about a 1950 provision in California’s Constitution that still requires voter approval before public housing is built in a community.
Los Angeles Times
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Srijan Sen, associate professor of psychiatry, was interviewed for a story about what it’s like to live with high-functioning depression. Some people may not even know how to identify depression in themselves, which is particularly concerning because depression doesn’t discriminate, Sen said.
Vice
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Parenting can be hard. Alison Miller, associate professor of health behavior and health education at the School of Public Health, and colleagues from Michigan Medicine have launched a research network to study risk and resilience in families, and empower parents.
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