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Giving Blueday was a success!
Dec 2, 2015The 24-hour day of giving, held on December 1, saw the U-M community and its friends come together to support their passions at Michigan. Giving Blueday emphasizes the importance of giving, and giving to meaningful causes. The day may be over but the impact of these gifts is just beginning.
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It’s Giving Blueday!
Dec 1, 2015Today is the day! Giving Blueday, our 24-hour day of giving, makes an impact on communities near and far. With your support, the university can continue to change lives, tackle complex problems, support faculty and research, and enable talented students to study at Michigan.
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What difference can one day make?
Nov 30, 2015Giving Blueday is on December 1, 2015. The 24-hour day of giving coincides with the national movement to kick off the giving season, Giving Tuesday. With a successful launch in 2014, Giving Blueday makes a tremendous impact on the university and its neighboring communities.
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A national leader in education abroad
Nov 23, 2015Every year, more and more U-M students are reaching out to experience the world beyond our borders. A new report funded by the U.S. State Department says that for the second consecutive year, the number of U-M students studying abroad increased by 15 percent, making the university a national leader.
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Nanotechnology Lab
Nov 16, 2015G.G. Brown Laboratories on North Campus, expanded one year ago, allow researchers to study the forces at work at the smallest scales, to advance nanotechnologies in energy, manufacturing, healthcare and biotechnology.
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Community Assembly
Nov 10, 2015The university came together for a Community Assembly with President Schlissel in Rackham Auditorium on Nov. 10. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Clarence Page said such an event is rare, as diversity is more typically discussed among friends and family, rather than in public.
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Diversity Summit
Nov 9, 2015The entire university will convene at the U-M Diversity Summit, November 4-13, including a Community Assembly with President Schlissel in Rackham Auditorium on Nov.10, from 9-11 a.m. Everyone is invited to participate and contribute to the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion vision, assessment and plan.
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Monarchs and milkweed in a changing world
Nov 2, 2015The milkweed plants growing in 40 cube-shaped chambers on a hilltop at the University of Michigan Biological Station provide a glimpse into the future that allows researchers to ask a question: How will monarch butterflies fare?
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Journalist Masha Gessen to Receive Wallenberg Medal
Oct 26, 2015The 2015 Wallenberg Medal will be awarded to Russian and American journalist, author, and activist Masha Gessen on Tuesday, November 3, at 7:30 p.m., in Rackham Auditorium. After the medal presentation, Gessen will give the 24th Wallenberg Lecture.
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2015 World Solar Challenge
Oct 18, 2015The nation’s top solar car team from U-M hits the road for the World Solar Challenge—an 1,800-mile journey through Australia—Oct. 17-25. Their car "Aurum," the Latin word for gold, is fast, aerodynamic and uses solar cells coated with a special finish that captures more sunlight.
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Coffee meet-ups spur innovation at U-M
Oct 12, 2015Innovate Brew is a first-of-its-kind program that randomly matches U-M faculty for 30-minute coffee meetings once a month to foster more innovative thinking on campus.
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Mammoth Discovery
Oct 4, 2015An ancient mammoth unearthed in a farmer's field southwest of Ann Arbor may provide clues about the lives of early humans in the region, according to the University of Michigan paleontologist who led the dig.
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Lightweight Solar Cells Inspired by Art
Sep 28, 2015Borrowing from kirigami, the ancient Japanese art of paper cutting, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed solar cells that can track the sun.
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Coffee Killer
Sep 21, 2015A fungus called coffee rust, or la roya in Spanish, is ravaging farms in Central America – one of the world's biggest producers of the crop. U-M ecologists Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer are studying how the fungus spreads through fields. Their research could help save coffee.
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The Medicine In Our Garden
Sep 14, 2015Continuing more than a century of research, education and healing through botany, U-M’s new medicinal garden is open at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. More than 110 varieties of plants can be found in this exhibition, uniquely grouped by systems of the human body and the diseases they help to treat.
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National Medal of Arts
Sep 1, 2015A testament to U-M's commitment to world class arts presentation and education, the University Musical Society and George Shirley, emeritus professor at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, will each receive the nation's highest public artistic honor.
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Welcome Back
Aug 31, 2015There's definitely a buzz in the air in Ann Arbor. U-M students are back in town and ready to start the new school year. There are a variety of Welcome Events happening across campus to help students get back into the swing of things.
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The War of 1817
Aug 24, 2015Happy birthday to us: U-M is officially 198 years old, thanks to a spirited battle over the founding date that added 20 years to the University’s life.
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restoring marsh biodiversity
Aug 17, 2015Students from the general ecology course at the U-M Biological Station in Pellston explore nearby Cheboygan Marsh. This summer, a research team based at the station harvested 20 to 30 tons of cattails from the marsh in an innovative wetlands restoration project.
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Caring for women in the Congo
Aug 10, 2015His English was limited. She couldn't speak French. But that didn't stop a Congolese physician and a U-M School of Nursing professor from building a partnership in one of the most dangerous places for women in the world.
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Transforming Residential Learning
Aug 3, 2015The new Munger Graduate Residences challenge U-M students to develop networks across disciplines and to pursue new ideas together. This new campus housing option provides an innovative environment where today's graduate and professional students can develop into tomorrow's leaders.
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Masters in Social Work Placements
Jul 27, 2015It’s a dream team – the U-M School of Social Work, the U-M football team, the U.S. Marine Corps and the Detroit Lions joined together last week to teach life skills, football, language arts and the STEM curriculum to more than 100 adolescent boys from Detroit.
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Mcity Opens
Jul 20, 2015U-M's Mcity is a 32-acre simulated urban and suburban environment specifically designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicle technologies that will lead the way to mass-market driverless cars.
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Puzzles, Riddles and Enigmas
Jul 13, 2015The annual Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni Exhibition offers an opportunity for graduates from around the world to share their creative work. Coinciding with the art fairs, the show takes place at the Slusser Gallery on North Campus and Work • Ann Arbor on State St. from July 13 to Aug. 1.
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Kirigami art meets cutting edge science
Jul 6, 2015The art of paper cutting may slice through a roadblock on the way to flexible, stretchable electronics, a team of engineers and an artist at the University of Michigan has found.
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