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October 23, 2019 |
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Stephanie Steiner, a 31-year-old non-traditional student from Ypsilanti, is working to achieve her dream of becoming an elementary school teacher thanks to U-M’s Go Blue Guarantee. She’s among the growing number of new in-state undergraduates attending U-M since the tuition guarantee took effect.
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Scientific equipment used across the breadth of biology at U-M is getting a boost in the form of $5.1 million from the Biosciences Initiative Coordinating Committee to enhance four research core labs. The grants are from BSI’s new Core Lab Funding Program, which aims to improve technology and services in the biosciences.
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Helping to mark October as National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, MHealthy has compiled a list of U-M and community resources to help raise awareness and reduce risk of misuse. In Michigan, deaths from prescription and illicit opioids have increased seventeenfold since 1999.
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Carbon neutrality ideas
 As part of the Zell Lurie Institute Entrepreneurship Challenge this week, undergraduates at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business developed ideas focused on creating carbon neutrality at the U-M through building standards, energy consumption, transportation or university dining. From left, Mingo Hong, Katie Stempel, Connor Balio, Emma Carlin, and Jason Kathawa pitch GeoBlue, a startup focused on providing geothermal heating. The winning team this year, Greener Dining, included Brenda Bekins, James Nedeltchev, Katie Xu, Keaton Berger and Maxwell Abrams. (Photo by Tyler Stabile, Ross School)
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Concrete was being poured on Oct. 23, 1964, for the Institute for Social Research’s new building. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of Oct. 21-27.
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COMING EVENTS
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Oct. 23
A lecture and discussion with Kathy Cramer, professor of political science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 4-5:30 p.m., Ford School, Auditorium
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Oct. 24
A conference promoting mental health and well-being among students of color, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Michigan League
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IN THE NEWS
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“Texas is unique. It’s got a range of policies that all play well together,” said Sarah Mills, lecturer and senior project manager at the Ford School of Public Policy’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy. Her comments were featured in a story about the biggest generator of wind power in the United States — the state of Texas.
USA Today
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“What I worry about most with these patients is hospitalization and respiratory failure,” said MeiLan Han, professor of internal medicine, who points out that 92 percent of adults hospitalized for the flu have at least one underlying chronic condition. Some, such as HIV and cancer, she says, make people unable to mount a robust response to the flu virus without a flu shot.
Michigan Radio
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“We’re at a fertility rate that is lower than the Great Depression, which is very significant,” said Pamela Smock, professor of sociology and research professor at the Population Studies Center. She and Ren Farley, professor emeritus of sociology, public policy and population studies, were quoted in an article about Michigan’s record-low birth rate. “Population growth stimulates economic growth,” Farley said. “Population decline presents a lot of challenges that people don’t think about,” such as having a sufficient workforce and enough younger people to support senior citizens.
MLive
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LOOK TO MICHIGAN
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Elisa Seltzer’s first job out of U-M was at Recycle Ann Arbor. It laid the green foundation for a career that included putting northern Michigan’s Emmet County on the national map as a model for cutting waste.
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