Campus News
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November 2, 2015
Investor John Wu donates $10M to U-M’s partnership in China
Investor and alumnus John Wu and his wife, Jane Sun, have donated $10 million to the UM-Shanghai Jiaotong University Joint Institute — U-M’s biggest global partnership.
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November 2, 2015
University plays leading role in regional big data hub
U-M will play a leading role in the new Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub, part of a “big data brain trust” that has been established by the National Science Foundation.
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October 30, 2015
Neuromonitoring graduates help surgeons perform safer operations
Joshua Mergos is the director of the Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Program at the University of Michigan, which recently became the only accredited IONM program in the world. The program, one of only three in the U.S., is a partnership between the U-M Health System Neurology Department and the School of Kinesiology.
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October 30, 2015
Diversity Summit public meetings open yearlong campus initiative
Bringing the U-M community together to inform and inspire its broad, ongoing effort to improve diversity, equity and inclusion is the goal of a Diversity Summit Nov. 4-13.
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October 30, 2015
Obituary: Marcel Muller
Marcel Nicolas Muller, 89, professor emeritus of French, died at his home in Ann Arbor on Oct. 14. A world-renowned specialist in the works of Marcel Proust, Muller was a member of the Michigan faculty from 1966 until his retirement in 1995.
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October 27, 2015
University to host TSA PreCheck enrollment event next month
The university’s Procurement Services Department is bringing the Transportation Security Administration’s PreCheck program to campus Nov. 16-20 for a special enrollment event.
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October 27, 2015
Faculty Senate passes resolution on course evaluation data
The Faculty Senate is asking the administration not to release data from student course evaluations until the evaluation instrument can be redesigned, and a policy formulated to govern the data’s release.
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October 26, 2015
Theatre professor introduces students to arts entrepreneurship
In 1990, Gregory Poggi was working with the Dallas Theater Center on a production of “All My Sons” — by U-M alumnus and renowned American playwright Arthur Miller — when Miller and his wife, Inge Morath, attended the show. “‘I really liked the show, kiddo,’” Poggi recalls Miller saying.
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October 26, 2015
Campus briefs
News from around the university.
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October 26, 2015
U-M launches search for next Wallace House director
U-M has launched a search for a new director of Wallace House, home of the Knight-Wallace Fellowship program for journalists and Livingston Award for Young Journalists.
