Campus News
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March 25, 2024
Earth Month puts focus on U-M sustainability efforts
U-M is marking late March and all of April with a series of events focused on sustainability and climate action, continuing a tradition that began with the first “Teach-In on the Environment” in 1970.
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March 25, 2024
Lecturer crushing it as youth soccer coach
Piotr Westwalewicz, a lecturer IV in Slavic languages and literatures in LSA, founded Ann Arbor CRUSH, a youth soccer club that started with 15 players in 2005 and has grown to hundreds.
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March 25, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — Saving Michigan’s forests from ‘the most appalling consequences’
Volney M. Spalding, an 1873 U-M graduate who taught botany and zoology, worried about the fate of northern Michigan’s magnificent forests.
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March 25, 2024
Obituary — Hubert I. Cohen
Hubert Irwin (“Hugh”) Cohen, professor of film, television and media in LSA, and of arts and ideas in the humanities in the Residential College, died March 1 at age 93.
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March 25, 2024
Campus briefs
Short news items from around the University of Michigan.
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March 22, 2024
Board of Regents to meet March 28 in University Hall
The Board of Regents is scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. March 28 in University Hall in the Alexander G. Ruthven Building. The meeting also will be livestreamed online.
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March 22, 2024
University names first Black woman police chief
Crystal James has been named chief of the U-M Police Department, making her the first Black person to hold the position on the Ann Arbor campus, and the first woman chief on any of U-M’s three campuses.
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March 21, 2024
Three faculty members elected to serve on SACUA
Derek R. Peterson and Melanie S. Tanielian of LSA, and Soumya Rangarajan of Michigan Medicine have been elected to three-year terms on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs.
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March 21, 2024
MEDC, U-M award $1.8M for biomedical research projects
Eight innovative biomedical research projects, designed to address challenges from opioid use disorder to preterm birth, recently received more than $1.8 million in funding.
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March 19, 2024
Nominations sought for Distinguished University Innovator of the Year
Innovation Partnerships is seeking nominations for the 2024 Distinguished University Innovator of the Year Award, U-M’s highest honor for faculty who bring new ideas to the marketplace.
