Campus News
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November 7, 2017
Diversity Summit keynote speaker addresses impact of stereotypes
Stanford University psychology professor Claude M. Steele explained how stereotypes can affect people’s lives, and recommended ways to create a successfully diverse community.
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November 6, 2017
Campus briefs
News from around the university.
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November 6, 2017
Media specialist runs award show for bad movies
Matthew Quirk, a multimedia specialist at the History of Art Visual Resources collections, helps run a show on campus called the Smithee Awards, which focuses on the worst of the worst when it comes to film.
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November 6, 2017
Sarah Thomason will speak on world’s vanishing languages
Sarah Thomason will discuss endangered languages around the world, and the potential impact of their loss, during her Distinguished University Professorship lecture Tuesday.
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November 3, 2017
Michigan Road Scholars applications accepted through Nov. 28
Instructional, research and clinical track faculty are invited to apply to be a part of the 2018 Michigan Road Scholars Tour, scheduled for April 30-May 4.
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November 2, 2017
Surveys show majority of campus satisfied with DEI climate
A majority of the U-M community is satisfied with the Ann Arbor campus climate related to diversity, equity and inclusion, but those positive experiences are not equally distributed across the institution, surveys show.
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November 2, 2017
Office of Research seeks nominees for staff recognition awards
The Office of Research is now accepting nominations from across all three U-M campuses for its annual administrator and technical staff recognition awards.
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November 1, 2017
New ranking places U-M eighth in U.S. for research output
The Nature Index ranking shows the research strength of U-M in the natural sciences, placing it in the top 10 of American institutions for producing articles in selective science publications.
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November 1, 2017
MCubed research funding effort renewed for third three-year cycle
MCubed, U-M’s innovative five-year, $30 million investment in faculty research and scholarship, has tripled into a return of nearly $100 million and will be continued for a third three-year cycle.
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November 1, 2017
NIH chief discusses research funding trends, role of MCubed
These are exciting times for biomedical research funding, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins told faculty members and students at the 2017 MCubed symposium. A downward trend in NIH’s federal funding that began around 2003 and hit a low point in 2013 has turned around in recent years.
