Campus News
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January 24, 2017
ITS says be wary of phishing scams, especially during tax season
The university is urging faculty and staff to be extra diligent as tax season draws near by being alert to “phishing scams” aimed at gaining access to personal information.
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January 24, 2017
Big Data research projects to seek insights from social media
Two recently funded U-M research projects will use Big Data from social media to gain new insights into economics and the way people communicate about parenting and politics.
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January 23, 2017
Professor showcases hard realities of incarceration through theater
When Ashley Lucas’ father was sent to prison, “it was earth-shattering.” The associate professor of theatre and drama, and the Residential College, and director of the Prison Creative Arts Project was 15 when her father was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The experience with incarceration inspired her career bringing the arts to prisons.
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January 23, 2017
Campus briefs
News from around the university.
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January 23, 2017
Stephen Forrest to discuss the advent of a new light source
Flexible, lightweight and economical with energy: organic light emitting diodes are making it out of the lab and into the marketplace, and Stephen Forrest has been a major driver of that progress.
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January 23, 2017
Lectures set for seven Distinguished University Professors
Seven faculty members who have received one of the university’s top honors will offer Distinguished University Professor lectures about their work starting Thursday.
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January 23, 2017
U-M defines principles, process for building renaming requests
The university has concluded a thoughtful, yearlong review of how it would handle requests to reconsider the historical names of buildings on the Ann Arbor campus.
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January 20, 2017
Campus Farm helps cultivate lessons in sustainable agriculture
What may be the best-kept secret on campus? The University of Michigan runs a farm where students, faculty and staff grow vegetables and herbs at Matthaei Botanical Gardens.
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January 18, 2017
Nominees sought for 2017 Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prizes
Members of the U-M community have one last week to nominate their favorite examples of innovations in teaching for the Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize.
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January 17, 2017
Live online discussion to explore projects to prevent, alleviate poverty
President Mark Schlissel and national poverty expert H. Luke Shaefer will lead a live video conversation on U-M’s Facebook page about the newly created Poverty Solutions at 1:15 p.m. today.
