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April 11, 2014 |
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Associate Professor Joseph Gone, whose work explores cultural psychology, has been awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This year, the prestigious national honor recognizing distinguished achievement in various fields went to 178 artists, scholars and scientists.
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Information and Technology Services has compiled information about the Heartbleed Bug, which affects Web sites and servers using certain versions of OpenSSL software. Most U-M owned servers and websites are now protected from Heartbleed, and there is no evidence that any U-M sites have been compromised.
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A different kind of jet-lag mobile app released Thursday by U-M mathematicians reveals previously unknown shortcuts that can help travelers snap their internal clocks to new time zones as efficiently as possible.
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Robotics Day
 YiBin Jiang, a Medical School research technician, plays soccer with a robot during Robotics Day at the North Campus Research Complex on Thursday. The event showcased leading autonomous systems and robotics research coming out of U-M, other Michigan universities and in government and industry in the region. View more photos from Robotics Day. (Photo by Joseph Xu, College of Engineering)
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UM-Dearborn and UM-Flint have announced the speakers for their upcoming commencement ceremonies. The Dearborn campus will conduct morning and afternoon ceremonies on April 27, and the Flint campus will conduct morning and afternoon ceremonies on May 4.
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COMING EVENTS
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April 11
25 Years of Research and Training at the University of Michigan, 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre
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“The administration’s claims regarding the gender pay gap are faulty, and its proposal to make it easier for women to sue employers for equal pay would create a disincentive for firms to hire women,” wrote Mark Perry, professor of finance at UM-Flint, in an opinion piece asserting a pay gap between men and women doesn’t truly exist when other factors are considered.
The Wall Street Journal
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Laura Kasischke, professor of English language and literature, was the subject of a feature story that provides an inside look at her award-winning career as a novelist and poet.
The Detroit News
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“We don’t consider the interest of dead people and their reputation as particularly important, at least not important enough to have legal procedures attached to it,” said Samuel Gross, professor of law, on the recent denial of a posthumous pardon for an executed Texas inmate.
CBS News
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VICTORS FOR MICHIGAN
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Chris Savoie has been fitting kids into wheelchairs for U-M’s Wheelchair Seating Services since 1999, and he says he sees the work differently than most. “It’s not that I detach myself from the situation or the people I’m involved with. It’s that I think, ‘I am there. I can help.'” Savoie’s story is one of many featured on the Stories of the Staff website.
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