LSA
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June 21, 2023
Sasha Killewald to direct Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics
Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald will be the next director of the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics at U-M, effective July 1.
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June 15, 2023
OVPR awards $500K to support arts, humanities research
The Office of the Vice President for Research awarded more than $500,000 this month as part of its Research Catalyst and Innovation Block Grants Program to support arts and humanities projects at U-M.
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June 7, 2023
U-M leads $7.5M effort to harness atomic-scale defects
A $7.5 million project led by U-M aims to understand how atom dislocations could be used as “nano-pipelines” to possibly enable faster, more efficient information processing in next-generation electronic devices.
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June 6, 2023
Science News names U-M biologist a Scientist to Watch
Marjorie Weber, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been named to Science News magazine’s annual Scientists to Watch list, which annually recognizes 10 young researchers.
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May 30, 2023
Public invited to Summer Lecture Series at Biological Station
The U-M Biological Station, an 11,000-acre research and teaching campus just south of the Mackinac Bridge on Douglas Lake, will host experts from across the country as part of its 2023 Summer Lecture Series.
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May 24, 2023
U-M launches institute to accelerate quantum research, education
U-M will invest $55 million to launch a multidisciplinary Quantum Research Institute and recruit up to eight new faculty members with expertise in quantum.
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May 24, 2023
U-M only U.S. university helping build massive telescope
The Extremely Large Telescope — the largest optical telescope ever built — could change everything we know about the universe, and U-M is the only U.S. university involved in building it.
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May 18, 2023
University acquires 40 acres near Biological Station
U-M is expanding its nature holdings in northern Michigan with the purchase of approximately 40 acres near the U-M Biological Station.
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May 16, 2023
Researchers look at genetic maintenance of same-sex sexual behavior
LSA professor Jianzhi Zhang and graduate student Siliang Song are exploring why the many genes associated with same-sex sexual behavior have not been eliminated from the human genome over time.
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May 8, 2023
Advising Council of U-M honors outstanding academic advisers
The Advising Council of U-M has recognized Jordan Long of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Leonora Lucaj in the College of Engineering for outstanding academic advising.