Academics
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August 27, 2014
U-M piloting new learning management system as part of Unizin
More than 15 U-M instructors will pilot a new learning management system in their courses this fall. Access to Canvas became available when U-M co-founded Unizin in June 2014.
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August 11, 2014
Common Reading Experience inspires engineering students, faculty
The College of Engineering’s new Common Reading Experience seeks to get first-year students and faculty thinking about an engineer’s role in society.
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July 17, 2014
Medical School expands research, initiatives for learning at all levels
The Medical School is expanding and refocusing its department that studies learning as an emerging academic field, and has a new chairperson to lead it.
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July 14, 2014
New NCID fellows advance diversity scholarship
How are the monsters and mysteries of the U.S.-Mexico border and cultural influences on student learning and cognition related? They are the research areas of the 2014-15 National Center for Institutional Diversity’s postdoctoral fellows, William Calvos-Quirá½¹s and Wanda Casillas.
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June 30, 2014
$1M grant to improve undergraduate chemistry education
A U-M professor of chemistry and engineering is among the 15 scientist educators selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute professors, the institute announced Monday.
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June 18, 2014
$1.5M grant expands undergraduate research opportunities
More than 3,700 additional U-M undergraduates will get real-world research experience over the next five years through a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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June 17, 2014
Program helps researchers develop tools for using big data
Organizers of the recent interdisciplinary Big Data Summer Camp say the ability to extract and analyze data from the Web soon will be indispensable to social science researchers.
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June 16, 2014
LSA and Engineering announce major national scholarship winners
LSA and the College of Engineering have announced the winners in three major national scholarship competitions: the Goldwater, Astronaut and Beinecke scholarships.
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June 11, 2014
University part of consortium to strengthen digital education
U-M has joined three other research universities to form Unizin, a technology consortium to improve how educational content is shared across universities and ultimately delivered to students.
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June 3, 2014
Frankel Institute announces new cohort of 14 fellows for 2014-15
The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies has selected 14 fellows who will gather to research aspects of the theme “Jews and Empires” in 2014-15.
