Today's Headlines
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Awards honor advisers from CoE, Michigan Medicine, LSA
The Advising Council of U-M has recognized Michelle Sonderman in the College of Engineering and Samantha Wilhelmi of the Medical School for outstanding academic advising.
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Pair receives Javits Award for work on stroke health disparities
Two U-M researchers have received the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for their work on stroke health disparities in Mexican Americans.
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Grants awarded to student-centered sustainability projects
Two Student Life Sustainability programs have awarded more than $120,000 to 27 unique sustainability projects this academic year.
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Feelings of misinformation lead to more news avoidance
As people have more difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction in the United States, they are more likely to feel news fatigue and avoid news altogether, according to a U-M study.
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Board of Regents to meet May 16 at UM-Dearborn
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U-M initiative pairs students with older adults to improve hand function
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University receives $3.6M to advance nuclear energy
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$4.8M campaign led by U-M will improve forecasts in western U.S.
Coming Events
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May 13
Anxiety in Adults and Kids: Tips for All Ages
With Stefanie Russman Block, Hans Schroder and Jami Socha from the Michigan Medicine Department of Psychiatry; 6:30-7:30 p.m.; Ann Arbor District Library
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May 14
Miseducating the Public: Educators and students respond to anti-diversity movements
A look at the state of anti-diversity policies and rhetoric; 1-2 p.m.; virtual
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May 15
My Gender States
Exhibition by Rogério M. Pinto of the School of Social Work; 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Lane Hall; runs through Aug. 13
Mother-son heart bond
When Mackenzie Lampe learned her son, Jeremiah, would need the same aortic valve repair that she had, she knew exactly who she wanted to oversee her son’s care: pediatric heart surgeon Richard Ohye, who as a Michigan Medicine fellow helped perform the procedure on Lampe at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in 1998. In this video, Lampe and Ohye discuss the aortic valve repair that was performed on Lampe and her son, Jeremiah.
Read more about the procedureSpotlight
“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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“More than one-third of people with neuropathy experience sharp, prickling or shock-like pain, which increases their rates of depression and decreases quality of life,” said Melissa Elafros, assistant professor of neurology, whose research at one outpatient clinic found that three-quarters of people with neuropathy were undiagnosed.
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“Unlike hormones, (chest) binding requires no prescription; unlike state-ID changes, it requires no paperwork,” co-wrote Sarah Peitzmeier, assistant professor of nursing and public health. “This accessibility makes binding terrifying to those who want to eradicate trans people from public life. Their usual tricks are powerless … there is no teacher they can gag, no librarian they can defund, no doctor they can criminalize to stop people from binding.”
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A new program that aims to lure 1,000 Brazilian researchers now working abroad back to their homeland, “fails to address the root cause of the problem,” said Thiago Gonçalves Souza, postdoctoral fellow in ecology and evolutionary biology. “The primary reason most researchers leave is the challenge of securing a permanent position in Brazil.”
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