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February 2, 2015

MHIRT celebrates 20th anniversary aiding health disparities groups

Camels and horses run free on the plains of Umnugobi province, Mongolia. That’s where graduate student Elise Tolbert learned to tolerate the dust and air pollution,…

January 30, 2015

Remembering Tobin Siebers, English professor, disability studies advocate

Tobin Siebers, co-chair of the university’s Initiative on Disability Studies, V. L. Parrington Collegiate Professor, and professor of English language and literature, and art and design…

January 29, 2015

Summit focuses on success of men of color in higher ed

The National Center for Institutional Diversity convened a national summit Thursday titled “Ensuring Success for Men of Color:  Leveraging Evidence to Drive Better Policy, Practice, and…

January 22, 2015

Justice Ginsburg to deliver Tanner Lecture at U-M on Feb. 6

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, will present the university’s 2015 Tanner Lecture on Human Values on Feb. 6, from 10 a.m.-11:30…

January 22, 2015

Video: Pay-to-play and participation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7pkkgHNklE&feature=youtu.be

January 21, 2015

MHacks shapes the hackathon culture it helped create

Since its inception in February 2013, MHacks, the university’s semi-annual event that helped spark the nation’s college hackathon movement, has grown from a just-for-fun challenge to…

January 20, 2015

Pay-to-play keeping kids on the sidelines

The cost of school sports keeps many children from participating, according to the latest University of Michigan Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health (link…

January 19, 2015

U-M Solar Car Team wins Abu Dhabi Solar Challenge

An atypical U-M solar car squad raced in the inaugural Abu Dhabi Solar Challenge in typical U-M solar car fashion: finishing on top. The Solar Car…

January 19, 2015

Japan’s high suicide rate is focus of ‘Saving 10,000’ event

The Tojinbo cliffs and Aokigahara forest are among popular sites for Japanese who choose suicide, more than 80 in the country each day — a rate…