Today's Headlines
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How U-M fuels Michigan’s economic future
U-M’s research enterprise is driving regional economic growth by transforming laboratory breakthroughs into tangible, real-world assets.
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Regents’ Bylaws revision posted for public comment
A series of housekeeping revisions to the Board of Regents’ Bylaws have been proposed and are now being posted for public comment before coming before the regents for approval at the July 16 meeting.
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New Facilities and Parking Map makes campus wayfinding information easier to access
Facilities & Operations has launched a new public-facing Facilities and Parking Map, developed to provide easier access to frequently needed operational information in one place.
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U-M startup Amplitude Vascular Systems acquired for $835M
Amplitude Vascular Systems, a University of Michigan startup focused on addressing arterial calcification, was recently acquired for up to $835 million by Stryker.
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Medical School study on psychedelics awarded $3.3M grant
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U-M Health neurosurgeons complete groundbreaking implantation
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Applications open for Building Better Futures grants
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Nominations sought to recognize disability advocates, accessibility leaders
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Limited number of new patient appointments with PCPs available to U-M employees, retirees
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Michigan basketball, hockey players selected in NBA, NHL drafts
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Accolades — June 2026
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U-M’s FY ’27 budget invests in research, student support services
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Henry Russel lecturer, award winners named for 2027
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Granger family continues support with donation for new behavioral health hospital
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Behm named regents chair for 2026-27; Meyers to be vice chair
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VP Arthur Lupia to leave U-M for Georgetown leadership role
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U-M continues to mark 250th anniversary of American democracy
Coming Events
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Jul 8
Sharing the Spirit of America: 250th Anniversary Reading of the Declaration of Independence
President Grasso will kick off the reading of the Declaration, which all schools have been invited to have a representative participate in reading; 6-7 p.m.; Diag
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Jul 8
Making a Migratory Monarch: André Green
Monarch butterflies are renowned for their annual transcontinental migration where they fly thousands of miles each fall to overwinter at specific sites in central Mexico. How did this phenotype evolve? 7-8 p.m.; Gates Lecture Hall, U-M Biological Station
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Jul 23
Oncology Drug Discovery & Development (3D) Workshop
An educational, one-day program to provide participants with an interactive, team-based learning experience of the drug discovery and development process; 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. (application deadline is July 1); North Campus Research Complex, Building 300, Room 376
Fast food, fries and science: Inside U-M’s Fast lab
Inside a tucked-away laboratory at the University of Michigan, researchers recreated a fast-food restaurant — not to serve customers, but to answer a question millions of people ask themselves every day: Why do we eat differently in tempting environments than we planned? For Ashley Gearhardt, professor of psychology in LSA, the answer may have less to do with self-control and more to do with the environments designed to capture our attention.
Read more about the FAST LabSpotlight
“I grew up on a dairy farm in Ireland, and I’m visually impaired, so I ended up going to a boarding school for blind girls at the age of 7. I was at a school before that, but my parents pulled me out because it wasn’t set up for me to succeed.”
— Sile O’Modhrain, professor of music in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and professor of information in the School of Information
Read more about Sile O’ModhrainIt Happened at Michigan
Phyllis Wheatley Waters was first Black student to play basketball at U-M
Waters’ reputation as a stellar athlete began early. As a student at Ann Arbor High School in the 1910s, she excelled in basketball, enjoyed tennis and swimming, and had a brilliant academic record.
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Decisions tech companies make to build AI tools like chatbots — which tend to reflect the values of Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic people — can bake in biases that go beyond partisan politics, said Ceren Budak, associate professor of information: “It would be helpful for us to have some clarity on … (companies’) current value systems so that when we are using them we know what we are using.”
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The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program grants states the authority to ban SNAP shoppers from purchasing “junk food,” but restrictions vary from state to state. “We’re getting bogged down in how we define candy or processed food,” said Kate Bauer, professor of nutritional sciences. “Our general definitions of those things are OK, but the reason people aren’t consuming the diets we would like … is food cost, scarcity and stress, and we have done nothing to address those issues.”
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“The health composition of the Republican Party has shifted from being the ‘wealthy and healthy party’ to, at least in terms of white Americans, (representing) some of the worst health observed in the country,” said Michael Shepherd, assistant professor of health management and policy. But this “creates what I call the rural health spiral: Bad health outcomes lead to more Republican voting, and more Republican voting leads to policies that make the health care outcomes even worse.”
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Youngju Ryu, director of the International Institute and professor of Korean literature, said South Korean President Lee Jae Myung “has moved decisively toward the reform of those elements in the government that had led to the (2024) martial law crisis in the first place, such as prosecutorial corruption and overreach. … Rather than calling for the draining of the swamp as a whole, the administration has adopted a more targeted approach toward bringing the insurrectionists to justice.”
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Many online search engines, including Google, provide answers via AI and promote it, without users asking for machine learning to kick in. “End users, you and me, we have absolutely no control other than saying ‘OK, we don’t want to use any of it,’ and even then the companies force it onto us,” said Mosharaf Chowdhury, associate professor of computer science and engineering.
The Associated Press
