School of Information
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August 30, 2021
Schools and colleges preparing for more traditional fall semester
The Record asked schools and colleges to share some aspect of the coming year they’d like to highlight, within the context of moving on after the pandemic’s restrictions.
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June 24, 2021
$1.2M grant will help create resource for privacy documentation
A $1.2 million grant in NSF’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program, funded in part to a School of Information research team, will go toward building a search engine and other tools to help collect and classify billions of privacy documents on the web.
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May 25, 2021
XR advertising could be a consumer threat if left unchecked
Investment in augmented and virtual reality is expected to mushroom in the coming years, and so are the opportunities for those advertisers who would use the technology to manipulate, U-M researchers say.
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April 20, 2021
Gift establishes esports program at School of Information
A $4 million gift from Robert “Bobby” Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, will establish a multidisciplinary esports program at the School of Information.
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March 30, 2021
Michigan Society of Fellows names latest cohort of new members
The Michigan Society of Fellows has selected four new members from more than 900 applications to serve three-year appointments as postdoctoral fellows and assistant professors, beginning this fall.
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March 22, 2021
Anti-racism faculty hiring moves forward
Eight new U-M faculty positions have been selected for funding in the first round of the Anti-Racism Faculty Hiring Initiative, a three-year effort that will add at least 20 new tenured or tenure-track faculty members.
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March 1, 2021
Campus briefs
Short news items from around the University of Michigan.
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December 18, 2020
XR Initiative at 1: Milestones met as pandemic brings challenges
A little over a year after leaders at the Center for Academic Innovation announced an XR Initiative, the first funded faculty projects are moving along nicely.
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December 3, 2020
Three U-M campuses submit capital funding requests to state
The Board of Regents heard an update on funding requests U-M submitted earlier this fall through the state’s capital outlay process for projects on the university’s Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses.
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September 28, 2020
U-M professor’s work featured in ‘Enslaved’ TV series
Ron Eglash is known for his work in the field of ethnomathematics and recently lent this expertise to “Enslaved,” a docuseries that explores 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World.
