Today's Headlines
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Funding proposals to open for Center for American Dialogue
The University of Michigan is inviting faculty and staff to propose programming ideas for the Center for American Dialogue.
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U-M physicist receives Brown Investigator Award
University of Michigan physicist Lu Li is among eight distinguished scientists nationwide named to the 2026 class of Brown Investigators.
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U-M storytellers gather to improve effectiveness, build a community
U-M communicators and marketers spent two days learning from each other and outside experts on how to most effectively convey U-M’s stories to the world.
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U-M Voices of the Staff help clean up Pinckney camp
Current and former members of U-M’s Voices of the Staff program gathered last month for an afternoon of community outreach at Camp North Star Reach in Pinckney.
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U-M’s purchase of Concordia campus follows proven blueprint
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U-M weaves sustainability into student move-out, commencement
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Charles Holmes recommended as next School of Public Health dean
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Michigan Medicine reach contract agreement
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U-M’s Stephen Forrest elected Royal Society Fellow
Coming Events
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Jun 11
Health Lab Live Show
To celebrate its 10-year anniversary, Health Lab will host the first “Health Lab Live Show,” which will bring two Health Lab articles to life by interviewing experts on stage in front of a live audience while talking trending and interesting health and wellness topics; 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.; Ford Auditorium
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Jun 14
Ann Arbor Japan Week
Join from June 14 to 20 for free Japan-themed events and activities for all ages; times and locations vary
A proven blueprint
When the Board of Regents approved purchasing the former Concordia University campus on May 21, it followed a successful blueprint for serving the public good that has been honed since the 1800s: Take advantage of land opportunities when presented, and then thoughtfully grow the university’s capacity to educate, heal and improve society. U-M will buy the approximately 140-acre parcel at 4090 Geddes Road from Concordia for a negotiated price of $60 million. (Photo courtesy of Concordia University)
Read more about the planned purchase of the Concordia University propertySpotlight
“I’d say the thing that unites my art and my work would be that both require attention to detail — and a bit of obsessiveness.”
— Tom Carey, head of acquisitions at the Law Library
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When U-M students went to D.C. — and ran into royalty
King Charles’ visit last month to Washington, D.C., evoked memories of 2011 trip to the nation’s capital, when Charles, then the Prince of Wales, met some U-M students in a chance encounter.
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A New York City plan to give kindergartners as much as $3,000 toward college would transform how children and families think about their futures, said William Elliott III, professor of social work: “There’s going to be more and more need for us to think about how we redistribute wealth to maintain the meritocracy that we aspire to achieve. It’s going to require programs like this that don’t just think about income as a way out of solving poverty but think about wealth as an important part of shaping kids’ futures.”
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American Muslims who lose loved ones to violence are victims of “a soft violence of dehumanization. They’re not allowed to just deal with the grief of such a horrible tragedy in their lives,” said Nancy Khalil, assistant professor of American culture. “They have to face the public and give press conferences in just the right tone and using just the right words so they can convince the world they did not deserve for their loved ones to be killed. They are just like everyone else … they, too, want to live in peace.”
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“This is so closely aligned with no buffer between the donor and administration. It’s very much tied directly to the president in a way that we haven’t seen … there’s no longer even a concern about the appearance of impropriety,” said Megan Tompkins-Stange, associate professor of public policy, about businessman Michael Dell’s $6.25 billion personal gift to fund Trump Accounts, the new tax-advantaged IRA for kids — and whose company was just awarded a $9.7 billion Pentagon software contract.
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AI can be “a really powerful tool” to help narrow down the candidate pool, “but it absolutely has to be used carefully, and it absolutely has to be disclosed that you’re using it,” said Sarah Zearfoss, senior assistant dean at the Law School, which recently added an optional AI essay to give students a chance to showcase their AI-prompting skills. “Using AI exclusively is to absolutely forgo the human element of it — the sense of judgment — which is so key to what we do in admissions.”
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New research by Lauren Hart, recent Ph.D. graduate in chemical biology, and Greg Dick, professor and director of the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, shows that harmful algae blooms in Lake Erie produce a greater range of toxic compounds than previously known. “We now know that these toxins can aerosolize and get into the air, so it’s not just the water you are drinking or swimming in, it’s the air that you’re breathing,” Dick said.
Detroit Free Press
