LSA
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November 30, 2020
Distinguished University Professor presentations set for Dec. 4
Faculty members Nicholas Kotov, Laura Kasischke and Victor Li who have received Distinguished University Professorship, one of U-M’s highest honors, will discuss their work during an upcoming livestreamed event.
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November 24, 2020
U-M scientists, engineers named 2020 AAAS fellows
Eight U-M faculty members have been elected 2020 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among 489 newly elected fellows announced by AAAS.
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November 23, 2020
LSA senior Amytess Girgis named 2021 Rhodes Scholar
Amytess Girgis of Grand Rapids, a U-M senior in LSA studying political science, has been named a 2021 Rhodes Scholar, one of 32 Americans to win a scholarship to Oxford University.
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November 19, 2020
U-M Debate Team wins fall semester’s ‘national championship’
The U-M Debate program recently won the 64th Annual Franklin R. Shirley Classic hosted by Wake Forest University. The Shirley Classic is widely considered the national championship of the fall semester.
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October 26, 2020
U-M’s Detroit River Story Lab to amplify waterway’s narratives
The Detroit River Story Lab at U-M lifts off this semester with grant-funded partnerships and multidisciplinary courses devoted to the international waterway’s long and deep store of sustaining narratives.
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October 20, 2020
State officials confident in election security despite voter concerns
Walter Mebane, a professor of political science and statistics who specializes in election forensics, addresses questions regarding voting security as Election Day 2020 approaches.
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October 20, 2020
University to launch several new anti-racism initiatives
U-M will launch several new anti-racism initiatives, and enhance a number of existing ones, as part of a national reckoning on race and as deep-rooted structural inequities in American life have been magnified.
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October 12, 2020
Professor rolls with changes in the digital media world
Lisa Nakamura, who began teaching courses about digital media in 2001 and at U-M in 2012, helped create a digital studies minor to provide recognition for students who had spent so much time researching it.
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October 1, 2020
More than $260K awarded for research on confronting, combating racism
More than $260,000 total will be awarded to six action-based research projects as part of the inaugural “Confronting and Combating Racism” grants.
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September 17, 2020
Watkins-Hayes named University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, professor of sociology in LSA and of public policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, has been appointed a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor.
