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September 16, 2013
U-M Water Center awards $2.9M for eight Great Lakes restoration projects
The U-M Water Center has awarded eight research grants, totaling nearly $2.9 million, to support Great Lakes restoration and protection efforts.
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September 16, 2013
Author Alice Walker to speak at U-M in November 2014
Author Alice Walker has accepted an invitation from U-M’s Center for the Education of Women to speak on campus next year. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Color Purple” and other books will deliver the biennial Zora Neale Hurston Lecture on Nov. 5, 2014.
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September 16, 2013
Equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter to deliver Vivian R. Shaw Lecture
Equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter to deliver Vivian R. Shaw Lecture at 7 p.m. Oct. 2 in Rackham Auditorium.
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September 16, 2013
Ten U-M doctoral candidates named Dow Sustainability Fellows
Ten doctoral students from six schools and colleges at U-M have started the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program, marking the first cohort of interdisciplinary Ph.D. fellows in this innovative program, which launched in spring 2012.
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September 16, 2013
School of Information students to work on solving global problems
Working on a smartphone application to book train tickets for Mumbai local trains. Designing a language learning application for deaf students in India. Creating an online repository for consultation for human rights for a Bangalore lawyers collective. These are just some of the projects University of Michigan students will be able to work on, thanks… -
September 9, 2013
Public service announcement debuts new U-M campaign
Current and former students are featured in a new “Victors Valiant” public service announcement (PSA) video that debuted nationally last weekend. A key theme of the PSA is the university’s focus on collaboration to foster innovation. It is conveyed by juxtaposing athletics and law, music and science, and other combinations of disciplines.
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September 9, 2013
Long-held assumption about emergence of new species questioned
Charles Darwin referred to the origin of species as “that mystery of mysteries,” and even today, more than150 years later, evolutionary biologists cannot fully explain how new animals and plants arise. For decades, nearly all research in the field has been based on the assumption that the main cause of the emergence of new species,… -
September 9, 2013
Regents invite community input on qualities needed in next U-M president
The Board of Regents and the Presidential Search Advisory Committee will host a series of public forums in the weeks ahead to gather broad input on the search for the next president of the University of Michigan.
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September 9, 2013
Lecturer’s passion for food informs classroom discussion
How does one go from wanting to be a professional wine expert to teaching at a world-class academic institution? That, in essence, is the story of Margot Finn, a lecturer in university courses, although even she admits she got there in a “roundabout sort of way.” Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography. Finn was a… -
September 9, 2013
Bollywood, Hollywood and Law come together in a mini seminar
The savory smell of samosas mingled with the Hindi spoken by the actors on the big screen and laughter of the audience. If you closed your eyes, you could easily imagine yourself at a movie theater in Mumbai. The class "Hollywood, Bollywood and the Law: The Globalizing Entertainment Industry" is taught by professor Vikramaditya Khanna and met for a mini seminar course six times during the academic year.
