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January 21, 2013
Improving road safety: Lessons from Europe
Tougher drunken driving laws, lower speed limits and stricter seat belt laws are the best ways to reduce traffic deaths in the United States, say researchers at the U-M Transportation Research Institute. “Despite recent major improvements in road safety in the U.S., the current safety level is far below the level of the best-performing countries,”… -
January 21, 2013
Nominations for 2013 Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prizes due Feb. 4
2013 Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prizes of $5,000 will be presented to up to five faculty projects this spring, with the current call for nominations due Feb. 4. This is the fifth year the prizes are being awarded. This prize differs from other teaching prizes in that it honors original, specific innovations to improve student learning,… -
January 21, 2013
Police Beat
December 2012 crime map > Police investigating sexual assault at West Quad University police continue to investigate a report of a sexual assault from Jan. 13 at West Quad residence hall. Video images were released the next day in an effort to identify the male subject. They can be viewed on the U-M police website… -
January 21, 2013
Student group works to bring Angela Davis to Ann Arbor
Can a small group of students advocating for change really make things happen? One group of U-M students thinks so, and they hope to gather support for their cause by bringing Angela Davis to Ann Arbor for the 27th Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium.
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January 21, 2013
Faculty Perspectives
Legal precedents and codified rules and moral principles of academic tenure Today’s university and college boards should look towards the following morals to govern our universities and colleges. Moral principles: Moral law is defined: “The law of conscience; the aggregate of those rules and principles of ethics which relate to right and wrong conduct and prescribe… -
January 21, 2013
RecycleMania returns to campus
U-M will compete with hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide in the battle to collect campus trash and recycled materials during RecycleMania 2013.
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January 21, 2013
Don’t miss: Soviets and the Olympics
First they shunned the Olympics. But Soviet communists ultimately embraced the games, and used them to influence international politics during the Cold War. Robert Edelman, a professor of Russian history and the history of sport at the University of California, San Diego, will present “Who Won the London Olympics? Soviet Communism and the Olympic Movement,”… -
January 21, 2013
Redesigned Diversity website unveiled on Gateway
Today diversity has a renewed footprint on the Gateway — the university’s online “front door.” A click on “Diversity” in the Gateway’s Focus box will take you to the Diversity Matters at Michigan (DM@M) website, re-launched today with a comprehensive redesign — its first since it was created in 2007.
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January 21, 2013
Photo: Martha Graham Dance Company at Power Center
The Martha Graham Dance Company performs two different programs of iconic contemporary dance at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Power Center for the Performing Arts. The company on Friday will perform “ Inner Landscape” which includes works that represent Graham’s fascination with the mind, and on Saturday Graham’s iconic “Appalachian Spring” and Robert… -
January 21, 2013
MHealthy Rewards gives employees $100 for healthy activities
Tomorrow (Jan. 22) MHealthy launches its two largest programs, Rewards 2013 and Active U. Faculty and staff can learn about their health and earn $50 by completing the annual health questionnaire, then earn another $50 for successfully completing Active U or other healthy activities.
