Today's Headlines
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University proceeds with plan for campus solar power projects
U-M is moving ahead with plans to construct on-campus solar power installations with a capacity of 25 megawatts across all three campuses, hiring Houston-based Radial Power to design and build them.
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Alcohol sales at Michigan Stadium to begin this football season
The U-M athletic department will begin selling alcohol at Michigan Stadium with the 2024 football season, after carefully reviewing previous alcohol-sale rollouts at Yost Ice Arena and Crisler Center.
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Friese named vice provost for academic and faculty affairs
Christopher R. Friese, a national authority in measuring and improving the quality of cancer care delivery, has been named the next vice provost for academic and faculty affairs in the Office of the Provost.
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U-M Health to improve access with University Hospital renovation
U-M Health will renovate part of University Hospital, creating 26 incremental private observation rooms to help ease crowding in the emergency department.
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Regents authorize various real estate purchases, sales
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Regents approve faculty promotions
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Regents Roundup — May 2024
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New campus parking permit rates will take effect July 1
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Copper cannot be mined fast enough to electrify United States
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Record shifting to reduced summer email, print schedule
Coming Events
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May 17
Being Mixed Race in a Mono-racially Organized World
An exhibit exploring the U-M Library’s collections about the diversity of mixed-race heritage; 8 a.m.-11 p.m.; Hatcher Graduate Library, Clark Library (second floor); runs through Oct. 6
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May 20
Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2024
Celebrating 20 years of impactful science and scientists at the Life Sciences Institute; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. May 20 and 21; Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building, Kahn Auditorium
Racing hydrogen cars in Detroit
Henderson Academy students Damontay Shufford (left) and Zadrian King work with Haley Hart, director of the Michigan Engineering Zone, on testing a car they built. Earlier this month, 27 eighth-graders from Henderson Academy in Detroit were the first to build and race model hydrogen cars at the MEZ. The event was sponsored by MI Hydrogen, U-M’s hydrogen initiative, which provided Hydrogen Grand Prix kits from Horizon Educational. (Photo by Marcin Szczepanski, College of Engineering)
Read more about the students’ experiences and takeawaysSpotlight
“Hong Kong has turned me into a voracious omnivore who lives to eat and plans everything around it.”
— Gray Carper, a service quality analyst with Health Information Technology & Services who first visited Hong Kong in 2003 and now lives there and serves as a tour guide
Read more about Gray CarperIt Happened at Michigan
The university’s first gift — in 13 volumes
The first recorded gift from an individual to the university came from a well-to-do fur trader who never set foot in Ann Arbor. In 1840, Charles W.W. Borup shipped to U-M a highly regarded German encyclopedia set. Borup’s donation of 13 volumes gave U-M its first gift and a solid scholarly foundation in its fledgling library.
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“What it boils down to me is this message, that now is the time we must act. Here’s the data, now we know it. We have to do something about it,” said Sue Anne Bell, assistant professor of nursing, commenting on research that shows that more than 200 million seniors face extreme heat risks in coming decades.
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“I find it fascinating … the possibility that the universe might have nontrivial or different types of topologies, and then especially the fact that we think we might be able to measure it,” said Dragan Huterer, professor of physics, on the possibility that the universe may have a complex geometry — like a doughnut.
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Discounts, low-stock messages, countdown clocks and other tricks to get us to spend money are also ways for online retailers to collect more data about us, says Lennart Baardman, assistant professor of technology and operations: “It allows them to understand their price sensitivities, what types of products customers should be recommended, and how they can personalize the promotions to this customer.”
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