Campus News
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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
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 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 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
Campus briefs
News from around the university.
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September 21, 2015
New tax reporting under health care reform takes effect in 2016
The Affordable Care Act will affect the way individuals and families file their taxes starting next year, with a new tax form and a requirement that U-M report dependent tax ID information.
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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.
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September 21, 2015
CEO of online platform edX to visit U-M
As U-M continues to explore platforms for experimenting with digital education, the Office of Digital Education & Innovation and the Digital Innovation Advisory Group will host the CEO of online provider edX, Anant Agarwal.
