Campus News
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September 4, 2024
Hunger Action Month promotes action against food insecurity
September is recognized as Hunger Action Month, a time when individuals and organizations come together to fight hunger and food insecurity.
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September 3, 2024
University to partner in DOE-backed clean energy research hub
U-M engineers will partner in a new research hub created by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop and further battery innovations. It is one of two new Energy Innovation Hubs led by national laboratories across the country.
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September 3, 2024
Adult cannabis, hallucinogen use still at historic highs
The percentages of adults using cannabis and hallucinogens over the past year stayed at historically high levels in 2023, according to the U-M’s Monitoring the Future survey.
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September 3, 2024
U-M kicks off initiative to promote civic participation
U-M is launching the Year of Democracy, Civic Empowerment, and Global Engagement, a campuswide presidential initiative to strengthen democratic practices and encourage active civic participation.
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September 3, 2024
Faculty Senate Office launches series of public issue forums
Members of the U-M community will be able to share their thoughts and opinions on pressing matters this election season during “Political Speech and the Public Square,” a series of open forums.
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September 3, 2024
Family’s Holocaust mystery connects two School of Public Health professors
A mystery stemming from one line in a family letter from 1943 sparked a search that has lasted decades for a School of Public Health associate professor and her family, and resulted in the discovery of a long-ago link to an SPH professor emeritus that grew out of actions taken by their ancestors during the Holocaust.
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September 3, 2024
Active U Autumn encourages U-M community to get moving
Registration is open through Sept. 30 for Active U Autumn, the eight-week physical activity program. It is open to all faculty, staff, students, retirees and employees’ spouses/other qualified adults.
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September 3, 2024
Ross professor learning science and art of winemaking
Puneet Manchanda decided to take advantage of the pears and grapes growing at his home and turn them into wine, which he had always enjoyed and was eager to research.
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September 3, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — The first practical holograms
The first breakthrough in practical holography came in 1964 — a 3D image that replicated a toy train courtesy of U-M researchers Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks.
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September 3, 2024
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