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A photo of Piotr Westwalewicz
“We are relentless in following the best coaching practices from around the world and always focus on building positive life habits.”

— Piotr Westwalewicz, lecturer IV in Slavic languages and literatures in LSA who in 2005 founded Ann Arbor CRUSH, a youth soccer club that has grown from 15 players to hundreds

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It Happened at Michigan

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Saving Michigan’s forests from ‘the most appalling consequences’

Volney M. Spalding, an 1873 U-M graduate who taught botany and zoology, worried about the fate of northern Michigan’s magnificent forests. In the fall of 1881, with the opening of the School of Political Science, Spalding began teaching what was considered the first forestry course in the United States.

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    • Headshot of Tuija Pulkkinen

    “This would indicate that we could use long-term space weather (or solar activity) predictions to anticipate electric power consumption needs,” said Tuija Pulkkinen, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, on new research that shows that drivers from space are important factors in understanding Earth’s weather and climate.

    The Washington Post
    • Elena Frank

    More than half of all new doctors are subjected to sexual harassment during their first year on the job — down from a few years ago, says Elena Frank, assistant research scientist at the Michigan Neuroscience Institute: “The overall decrease … over recent years suggests a move in the right direction, however, rates of sexual harassment experienced by physician trainees are still alarmingly high.”

    U.S. News & World Report
    • Mohammed Islam

    “You already see 3D camera technologies in … smartphones, tablets and mixed-reality devices. And these are small, inexpensive cameras that can easily be mounted on the rearview mirror, the steering column or other places in the driver’s cockpit,” said Mohammed Islam, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, whose team developed a low-cost system to detect drunk, drowsy or distracted drivers.

    DBusiness