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September 12, 2011
Welcome message
In her annual fall message, President Mary Sue Coleman welcomes students, faculty and staff to campus, and challenges members of the community to take in all that the university has to offer. See the video at www.umich.edu/pres/welcome/currvideo.php.
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September 12, 2011
Obama cabinet officer: SoE innovations right on time
Appearing in a U-M panel discussion, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said School of Education efforts to bridge the gap between teaching theory and practical classroom connections for teachers and students are improving the state of education at a critical time.
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September 12, 2011
Teach-in to focus on sexual violence
In response to the series of sexual assaults that have taken place near the U-M campus, the Center for the Education of Women, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center and the Abuse Hurts Initiative have collaborated to organize a teach-in on sexual assault.
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September 12, 2011
Michigan Law launches Entrepreneurial Law Program
A rare program in entrepreneurship and law launching this fall at the Law School will steep student lawyers in the arts of entrepreneurial businesses and also lead to groundbreaking entrepreneurial opportunities for students universitywide.
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September 12, 2011
Mideast scholar and columnist to deliver Rosenthal lecture
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, a 33-year-old scholar, columnist and Twitter commentator, will give the 2011 Josh Rosenthal Education Fund Lecture at 4 p.m. Sept. 21. The talk, free and open to the public, is named after a 1979 U-M graduate who died in the terror attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
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September 5, 2011
ITS Exchange voicemail features explained
Information and Technology Services (ITS) upgraded ITS Exchange 2007 to Microsoft’s 2010 version during the summer. In connection with the upgrade, all ITS voicemail services transitioned to a single system, ITS Exchange, which retired the U-M voicemail service. Faculty and staff now have more flexibility and advanced features: Voicemail preview: A preview text of a… -
September 5, 2011
U-M receives grant for sustainable transportation research
U-M will receive a $250,000 grant from Alcoa Foundation to support the university’s Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility Research and Transformation (SMART) project. The grant will be used to develop and apply practical solutions to the challenges of sustainable transportation in the Detroit and Beijing regions. SMART is a cross-university initiative of the U-M Transportation Research… -
September 5, 2011
U-M launches collaboration to help Great Lakes cities adapt to changing climate
Faced with increasing risks of intense storms, heat stress, clean water availability and economic hardship, municipal leaders are seeking high-quality, location-specific analyses to help plan for climate change impacts. That is the focus of a new $1.2 million U-M research project called the Great Lakes Adaptation Assessment for Cities (GLAA-C). Led by the Graham Environmental… -
September 5, 2011
Mentor role comes naturally to hall director
Being a hall director suits Joe Colangelo, because mentoring the resident advisers (RAs) who make dorm life comfortable for roughly 1,100 West Quad students comes naturally to him. “I was an uncle when I was 8. I always had kids a little younger than me around, so I was always watching them,” he explains. Photo… -
September 5, 2011
Old school: U-M in History
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