Campus News
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January 24, 2019
U-M leading $25M program to advance nuclear nonproliferation
The university is heading up a $25 million multi-institution program to help identify or detect bomb-making nuclear materials, weapons facilities and nuclear detonations around the world.
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January 23, 2019
Search begins for head of institutional equity office
A search is underway for the next associate vice provost and senior director to lead the Office for Institutional Equity, which oversees allegations of harassment or other discriminatory behavior, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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January 23, 2019
U-M in blood donation competition with four other schools
The university’s new winter semester blood drive competition, We Challenge You!, is underway for faculty, staff and students, and runs through Feb. 27.
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January 22, 2019
H.V. Jagadish to be Michigan Institute for Data Science director
H.V. Jagadish, the Bernard A. Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been appointed director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science.
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January 21, 2019
Campus briefs
News from around the university.
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January 21, 2019
Professor’s work focuses on molecules key to curing diseases
Growing up in Germany, Nils G. Walter formed a positive, but secondhand, impression of the United States. His father had been a prisoner of war in Texas who often told Walter about the kindness of Americans. Still, it was Walter’s love of chemistry that ultimately led him to move to the United States.
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January 21, 2019
Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize nominations due Jan. 31
Members of the U-M community have until Jan. 31 to reward innovative teaching by submitting a brief online form nominating a faculty project for a Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize.
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January 21, 2019
MLK Symposium speakers explore resistance, unraveling injustice
Julia Putnam and Tim Wise discussed ways to resist oppressive systems, the misremembering of American history, and how education can help unravel injustice at the 2019 MLK Symposium keynote.
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January 21, 2019
Police Beat: Jan. 21, 2019
Police Beat for Jan. 21, 2019.
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January 18, 2019
Obituary: Robert L. Kahn
Social psychologist Robert L. Kahn, a founding member of the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, died Jan. 6 in Burlington, Vermont, at age 100.
