Campus News
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February 11, 2019
Campus briefs
News from around the university.
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February 11, 2019
Carillonist Tiffany Ng to receive Shirley Verrett Award
The U-M Women of Color in the Academy Project will present its eighth annual Shirley Verrett Award to Tiffany Ng, university carillonist and assistant professor of carillon.
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February 11, 2019
U-M again tops list of public universities for student Fulbrights
U-M produced 26 student Fulbright grant recipients in 2018-19, the most of any public university in the nation. Three faculty members from the Ann Arbor campus and two from UM-Flint also received grants.
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February 10, 2019
Registration open for Women of Color Task Force career conference
A conversation with Cynthia H. Bowman, chief diversity and inclusion officer for Bank of America, and U-M diversity leaders will keynote the annual Women of Color Task Force career conference March 8.
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February 8, 2019
Biosciences Initiative offers new Core Lab Funding Program
President Mark Schlissel’s Biosciences Initiative is offering the Core Lab Funding Program, a new opportunity to improve core research resources across U-M.
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February 8, 2019
Obituary: Walter Andrew Castelli
A longtime resident of Ann Arbor, Walter Andrew Castelli, professor emeritus of anatomy at the University of Michigan, died Feb. 6 at StoryPoint Saline. He was 89.
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February 8, 2019
Obituary: John Peter Kent
John Peter Kent, a former English professor at the University of Michigan, died Jan. 29 at Wellington at Hershey’s Mills assisted living facility in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He was 87.
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February 7, 2019
U-M establishing FinTech Collaboratory to research cryptocurrency
Financial technology research and education at U-M will get a boost with $1 million from Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative to establish the FinTech Collaboratory.
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February 6, 2019
U-M to unveil new home for Museum of Natural History April 14
The U-M Museum of Natural History has announced it will reopen to the public April 14 in its new home at the university’s new Biological Sciences Building.
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February 5, 2019
Victors for Michigan final results show $5.28 billion total
The university has released the final results of its Victors for Michigan campaign, which closed Dec. 31, 2018, with more than 398,000 donors giving $5.28 billion.
