These items ran in recent editions of the Record Update. To find specific issues of the Update, go to ur.umich.edu/update/archives.
Nagraj Balakrishnan has been named dean of the UM-Dearborn College of Business.
❚ news.umd.umich.edu/2012/11/balakrishnan-named-dean-of-college-of-business
The university’s Senate Assembly approved a resolution urging faculty representation on committees that are appointed to help search for executive officers.
❚ www.ur.umich.edu/update/archives/121120/searches
U-M beat Ohio State in the annual Wolverine-Buckeye Challenge for Life, a contest to see which university could sign up more people on their state’s organ donor list.
❚ www.uofmhealth.org/news/archive/201211/u-m-beats-ohio-state-life-saving-organ-donation-challenge
The Athletic Department has announced a departmentwide community service relationship with the Special Olympics of Michigan.
❚ www.mgoblue.com/genrel/112912aaa.html
Ellen Rowe, associate professor and chair of the Department of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation, on what inspires her: "At the moment, the young Pakistani girl, Malala Yousafzai."
The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design’s 2012 Juried Undergraduate Exhibition, through Dec. 21 in the Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, Art & Architecture Building.