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At the request of the Provost's Office, the Committee to Consider a More Flexible Tenure Probationary Period has developed a response to feedback submitted about the committee's June 2005 report. The purpose of this document, which was submitted to Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Teresa Sullivan, is to continue the dialogue that began when the committee was appointed in 2004. The response document is available on the Provost's Office Web site, along with an invitation to submit comments: www.provost.umich.edu/reports/flexible_tenure/index.html.

Biomed research directory created

The Medical School has created M-CORES, a central Web directory of shared biomedical research resources at U-M, www.umms.med.umich.edu/mcores/yp_search.do. It will provide investigators with a centralized tool to browse or search for institutional core facilities and services that support basic biomedical and clinical research, and have information on technology available at the University. About 58 core facilities have been identified on the U-M campus. These units provide products, services and expertise in support of biomedical and clinical research, including biostatistics, clinical research grant writing and a broad range of sophisticated laboratory technologies.

Road construction updates

East Medical Center Drive in front of the Taubman Health Center, between the Emergency Department entrance and the parking structure (M18), is scheduled to be closed to southbound through traffic (toward Central Campus) for the next three weekends, weather permitting. Northbound traffic toward Fuller Road will remain available. The Taubman front entrance and valet drop-off will be open to northbound and southbound vehicles via the new lane in the circle drive. The closures are necessary to construct the new bus pullout, pedestrian median islands and a traffic island. In other traffic news, a lane reduction on the north side of Hayward Avenue east of Beal Avenue is scheduled Oct. 17 to allow a crane to lift equipment onto the roof of Space Research. Flag persons will direct traffic.

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