Today's Headlines
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University proceeds with plan for campus solar power projects
U-M is moving ahead with plans to construct on-campus solar power installations with a capacity of 25 megawatts across all three campuses, hiring Houston-based Radial Power to design and build them.
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Alcohol sales at Michigan Stadium to begin this football season
The U-M athletic department will begin selling alcohol at Michigan Stadium with the 2024 football season, after carefully reviewing previous alcohol-sale rollouts at Yost Ice Arena and Crisler Center.
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Friese named vice provost for academic and faculty affairs
Christopher R. Friese, a national authority in measuring and improving the quality of cancer care delivery, has been named the next vice provost for academic and faculty affairs in the Office of the Provost.
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U-M Health to improve access with University Hospital renovation
U-M Health will renovate part of University Hospital, creating 26 incremental private observation rooms to help ease crowding in the emergency department.
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Regents authorize various real estate purchases, sales
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Regents approve faculty promotions
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Regents Roundup — May 2024
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New campus parking permit rates will take effect July 1
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Copper cannot be mined fast enough to electrify United States
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Record shifting to reduced summer email, print schedule
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$15M to fund U-M, Los Alamos National Laboratory collaboration
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Six research faculty members recognized with OVPR awards
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U-M releases high-level preview of Campus Plan 2050
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Laurence Alexander recommended as UM‑Flint chancellor
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U-M launches faculty survey on threats and harassment
Coming Events
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May 17
Being Mixed Race in a Mono-racially Organized World
An exhibit exploring the U-M Library’s collections about the diversity of mixed-race heritage; 8 a.m.-11 p.m.; Hatcher Graduate Library, Clark Library (second floor); runs through Oct. 6
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May 20
Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2024
Celebrating 20 years of impactful science and scientists at the Life Sciences Institute; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. May 20 and 21; Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building, Kahn Auditorium
Making phones more annoying
Phone overuse is common in today’s society, and current interventions are not effective at helping users decrease screen time. College of Engineering researchers are developing an app called “InteractOut,” which works by slightly modifying common phone interactions, like tap and swipe, to gradually ease a user off their phone. In this video, Anhong Guo, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, discusses the app.
Read more about how the app can help manage screen timeSpotlight
“Hong Kong has turned me into a voracious omnivore who lives to eat and plans everything around it.”
— Gray Carper, a service quality analyst with Health Information Technology & Services who first visited Hong Kong in 2003 and now lives there and serves as a tour guide
Read more about Gray CarperIt Happened at Michigan
The university’s first gift — in 13 volumes
The first recorded gift from an individual to the university came from a well-to-do fur trader who never set foot in Ann Arbor. In 1840, Charles W.W. Borup shipped to U-M a highly regarded German encyclopedia set. Borup’s donation of 13 volumes gave U-M its first gift and a solid scholarly foundation in its fledgling library.
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“One-pedal driving (in electric vehicles) is a very different experience than combustion engines. Even if you learn how to effectively do one-pedal driving, uncertainty in the environment — like traffic — can still cause motion sickness,” said Monica Jones, associate research scientist at the U-M Transportation Research Institute.
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“During solar maximum, we might get one or two solar storms here at Earth every month. We are nearing the peak of solar maximum right now and will be going through this time of increased activity over the next couple of years,” said Michael Liemohn, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, about the powerful geomagnetic storms that create northern lights in the skies.
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“We’ve seen in a lot of states certain sheriffs taking a stand and saying they’re not going to enforce (red flag gun laws). But they always do, because it’s the law. … They recognize that some people are not safe to own guns at that moment,” said April Zeoli, associate professor at the School of Public Health and Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention.
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