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April 12, 2022 |
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Five LSA professors have been named Guggenheim Fellows. Giorgio Bertellini, Bénédicte Boisseron, Katherine French, Daniel Hack and Valerie Ann Kivelson are among the 180 winners of the prestigious fellowship recently announced by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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 The five LSA faculty members named 2022 Guggenheim Fellows are: top, from left, Giorgio Bertellini, Bénédicte Boisseron, Katherine French; bottom, from left, Daniel Hack and Valerie Ann Kivelson.
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The Center for the Education of Women+ is seeking proposal submissions for the Carol Hollenshead Inspire Award for Excellence in Promoting Equity and Social Change. The award, which honors former director Carol Hollenshead’s 20-year tenure at CEW+, provides $1,000 for individuals and $2,000 for groups.
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The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy will host a virtual event Thursday examining the domestic and foreign policy implications of the war in Ukraine, featuring discussions with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Delaware, comprising the Ford School’s Vandenberg Lecture.
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Stay caught up with U-M news about the coronavirus pandemic and its impact. University news items and official messages related to COVID-19 can be found in the Messages & News section of the Campus Maize & Blueprint website.
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The Record’s April 11 email incorrectly listed the U-M college affiliation for Deirdre de la Cruz, one of two faculty members leading a project to address and repair various issues related to the university’s collection of artifacts from the Philippines. She is an associate professor of history and of Asian languages and cultures in LSA.
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COMING EVENTS
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April 12
The 2022 Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation Director’s Lecture, 3-4 p.m., North Campus Research Complex Building 10 – Research Auditorium, and virtual
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April 12
With Mary Barra, General Motors chair and CEO, 4:15-5:45 p.m., Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Robertson Auditorium
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“I’m falling on the ‘seems like a bad idea right now’ side of things, at least on surface value,” said Sarita Schoenebeck, associate professor of information, who is concerned that Twitter’s plans to include an edit button will cause confusion. “I don’t think, from an interface design perspective, it would make it clear what the trajectory of a tweet was.”
WIRED
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“The Department of Justice has rarely lost high-profile counterterrorism cases based on successful entrapment claims, and this development punches a hole in that relatively unblemished track record the past two decades,” said Javed Ali, associate professor of practice in public policy, on a jury’s failure to convict four suspects in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
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“It felt like ‘Back to the Future’ all over again, where you have legislators who are trying to position themselves at a point where there’s demand for more oil and gas production fast — and lower prices. And in this case, things like greenhouse gas emissions seemingly go out the window,” said Barry Rabe, professor of public policy and the environment, on Democrats’ recent calls for oil companies to ramp up production.
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Nearly a decade ago, UM-Dearborn faculty member Hani Bawardi joined the preservation effort to restore the forgotten history of the oldest Arabic-speaking settlement in the U.S.
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