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October 31, 2024 |
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With a $50 million gift from Richard and Susan Rogel, U-M Health’s Rogel Cancer Center aims to revolutionize how the world detects, treats and ultimately cures pancreatic cancer. The gift will create the Rogel and Blondy Center for Pancreatic Cancer in honor of Max Rogel and Allen Blondy, Richard and Susan Rogel’s fathers.
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Researchers from the School of Public Health and Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention recently secured a nearly $1 million grant from the National Institute of Justice to evaluate a program that seeks to promote safe firearm storage practices in adults and prevent adolescent firearm violence.
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Paul B. Cornely graduated from U-M in 1934, making him the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in public health in the United States. Cornely then moved to Washington, D.C., where he taught at Howard University for 39 years, fighting for the desegregation of hospitals and equal health care opportunities for all.
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Figures of "Character" and "Friendship"
 These limestone features on the west facade of the Michigan League, atop its center pavilion, were designed by the League’s architect, Irving Pond, and executed in 1928 by Nellie Verne Walker, a well-known Chicago sculptor and friend of Pond. The Record periodically highlights pieces of public art at U-M. Browse an online collection.
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COMING EVENTS
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Nov. 1
Exploring Mixed Race and Interracial Family Experiences, with Victoria Vezaldenos of the Marsal Family School of Education; noon-1 p.m.; Hatcher Graduate Library, Clark Library, second floor
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Nov. 1
The Katarina T. Borer Lectureship in Exercise Endocrinology and Metabolism, with Greg Cartee; 3-4 p.m.; School of Kinesiology Building, Room 2600
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IN THE NEWS
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“If you fail to appeal to some of the things that Michigan cares a lot about, that means you’re for sure failing to appeal to Wisconsin and you’re failing to appeal to Pennsylvania and you may be failing to appeal to North Carolina, and that’s a bad record. You’ve lost then,” said Jenna Bednar, professor of public policy and political science, about Michigan’s status as a bellwether for the presidential election.
The Associated Press
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“We have a huge array of different programs with the primary goal of reducing poverty and increasing income and economic security … But the way we’ve implemented those programs is fundamentally undermining that goal,” said Pamela Herd, professor of public policy, alluding to the administrative burden that’s attached to many welfare programs.
Vox
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If you’re constantly checking social media or unable to turn off the news, alleviate election anxiety and stress by creating a schedule for staying informed, says David Dunning, professor of psychology: “If you find yourself chronically refreshing the page on early voting statistics — I may be coming up with a personal example — that means it is time to step away.”
The Cut
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LOOK TO MICHIGAN
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Donna Posont, an Environmental Interpretive Center staff member and UM-Dearborn alumna, has been honored for her work as an inclusive naturalist educator and advocate.
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ACADEMIC INNOVATION
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