Campus News
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September 28, 2015
Campus briefs
News from around the university.
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September 25, 2015
Staff nominations sought for Candace J. Johnson Award
Nominees from the Ann Arbor and U-M Health System campuses are being sought for the Candace J. Johnson Award for Staff Excellence.
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September 24, 2015
Canvas chosen as successor to CTools course sites
U-M’s Ann Arbor campus will move all course sites from CTools into a new learning management system called Canvas by the fall 2016 semester.
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September 24, 2015
U-M leads $5M big-data project to widen ‘bottleneck to discovery’
U-M is leading a $5 million data storage and networking project that aims to improve the ability to analyze troves of data, which could speed discovery and revolutionize the research cloud.
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September 24, 2015
ISR helps create new survey tool on sexual harassment, assault
The Institute for Social Research has partnered on a project to provide the nation’s college campuses with a scientifically designed survey on student sexual assault and harassment.
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September 23, 2015
Panel says cultural, structural changes needed to transform U-M biosciences
U-M must transform its “bioscience ecosystem” if it is to attract the best biosciences faculty, postdoctoral researchers and students, according to a faculty panel convened by President Mark Schlissel.
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September 22, 2015
Obituary: Peter Smereka
Peter Smereka, professor of mathematics, died Sept. 15 after suffering an unexpected heart attack.
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September 21, 2015
High-speed research data storage now available
U-M investigators involved in data-intensive research are getting a new tool — Turbo Research Storage — to help them store, manage and analyze large data sets.
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September 21, 2015
Campus briefs
News from around the university.
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September 21, 2015
Greg Maxwell helps UMHS patients heal through music
Greg Maxwell still remembers the first time he saw a U-M Health System patient react to his therapeutic guitar playing. He works for the health system’s Gifts of Art program as a certified music practitioner, singing and playing his guitar in patients’ rooms.