GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, March 20 -- Aquinas College issued the following news release: Paul Bee, Aquinas College alumnus and vice president for ticket sales for the Milwaukee Bucks, will deliver the commencement address to the College's Class of 2021 and Class of 2020 at two ceremonies in May. Bee, who had previously been scheduled to deliver the commencement address in May 2020, will be present for a double-commencement weekend, as Aquinas College honors the Class of 2020 and the Class of 202 more PR

JACKSON, Michigan, March 16 -- Consumers Energy issued the following news release on March 15, 2021: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Consumers Energy are launching a public campaign today to ensure Michigan residents take advantage of tens of millions in federal, state and local dollars that will help households and small businesses pay winter heating bills. "No one should go without warmth or comfort in their own home when they can have access to so many dollars here in Michigan, st more PR

WASHINGTON, March 19 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news: As a disturbing pattern of attacks on Asian Americans is rising, Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey doubled down on his previous racist comments about the virus. When asked if he regretted calling COVID-19 "The China flu," Shirkey responded: "Not at all. Not at all. Nope." During an interview earlier this year, Shirkey echoed the racist rhetoric of Donald Trump on the virus, saying: "The Chinese f more PR

YPSILANTI, Michigan, March 19 -- Eastern Michigan University issued the following news: Eastern Michigan University has worked hard to reduce costs, yet now, like so many of its peers, faces acute challenges amid the COVID-19 pandemic as it seeks to continue preparing students for high-demand careers that benefit the state of Michigan, President James Smith told Lansing lawmakers today (Thursday, March 18). "The nationwide impact on higher education from COVID-19 has been catastrophic," Presid more PR

HOLLAND, Michigan, March 19 -- Hope College issued the following news release: Dr. Lorna Hernandez Jarvis, a former member of the Hope College psychology faculty who is now chief diversity officer at Whitworth University, will present the address "Migrant workers' tale: Chavez and Huerta's legacy of courage and persistence" as this year's annual Cesar Chavez Lecture at Hope College on Wednesday, March 31, at 4 p.m. EST virtually. The public is invited. Admission is free, although advance regis more PR

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, March 16 -- Grand Rapids Community College issued the following news on March 15, 2021: Grand Rapids Community College is freezing tuition for the 2021-2022 academic year, part of an effort to make higher education affordable and accessible as West Michigan emerges from the pandemic. President Bill Pink said the tuition freeze, approved unanimously today by the board of trustees, reflects the focus on keeping a college education within reach at a time when many people i more PR

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, March 18 -- Grand Rapids Community College issued the following news: GRCC Workforce Training offers programs providing in-demand skills leading to rewarding careers. Each Wednesday we'll meet students who are heading down an educational pathway and changing their lives by earning occupational certificates. Ian Pope was used to being on the move, with multiple career paths, including military service. When he was ready to settle down, he chose to focus on a career in th more PR

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, March 16 -- The Indiana Democratic Party issued the following news release on March 15, 2021: The Indiana Democratic Party, the organization that advocates for the future of Indiana and its families, today issued the simple question: When will Governor Eric Holcomb allow all Hoosier adults to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine? This question follows a directive by President Joe Biden who called on all states to open up vaccine access to all adults by May 1, and it followed a  more PR

BENTON HARBOR, Michigan, March 20 -- Lake Michigan College issued the following news: Lake Michigan College's Honors Program will host a virtual Social Justice Forum at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 31, featuring a seven-person panel of local experts in the areas of grassroots activism, community programs, and policy change. A survey sent out to LMC students was used to create topics and questions for this event to address the top areas of concern. Based on this survey, they are racial inequality ( more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 16 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined Consumers Energy today to kick off a public campaign to make sure Michigan residents know about - and access - tens of millions in federal, state and local dollars to help pay winter heating bills. "No one should go without warmth or comfort in their own home when they can have access to so many dollars here in Michigan, starting with a single pho more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 18 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel yesterday filed a brief in opposition to sexual predator Larry Nassar's latest effort to seek resentencing by filing an application for leave to appeal in the Michigan Supreme Court. While Nassar argues that Ingham County 30th Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina was biased against him during his sentencing hearing and post-sentencing, Nessel urged th more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 18 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release on March 17, 2021: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel today warned Michiganders again to beware of scammers claiming to be from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) as well as local public health departments, calling residents to offer anything from medication and at-home COVID-19 tests to grants from the government while demanding personally identifiable information more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 16 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release on March 15, 2021: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel today responded to a request from eight state senators to open an investigation into Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's handling of COVID-19 patients in Michigan nursing homes. State senators Jim Runestad, Tom Barrett, Ruth Johnson, Kim LaSata, Roger Victory, Lana Theis, Dale Zorn, and Curtis VanderWall signed a Feb. 23 letter that specifically r more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 20 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: A former Flint insurance agent has been assigned to 24 months of probation under Holmes Youthful Trainee Act (HYTA) status for selling fraudulent automobile insurance certificates to his clients, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) announced today. Dillen Leonard, 25, appeared March 19th before Judge David J. Newblatt i more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 20 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo by Kyle Guerrant, deputy superintendent finance and operations: TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents and Public School Academy Directors FROM: Kyle Guerrant, Deputy Superintendent Finance and Operations SUBJECT: Frequently Asked Questions - 20-Hours of In-person Instruction - MEMO #COVID-19-170 On March 9, 2021, Governor Gretchen Whitmer sign more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 19 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo by Kyle Guerrant, deputy superintendent finance and operations: TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents and Public School Academy Directors FROM: Kyle L. Guerrant, Deputy Superintendent Finance and Operations SUBJECT: Children Matter. You Matter. Learn SEL. Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the bridge upon which all learning occurs. Reading more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 19 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo by State Superintendent Michael F. Rice: TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents Public School Academy Directors Local Education Agency Principals FROM: Michael F. Rice, Ph.D., State Superintendent SUBJECT: Children Matter. You Matter. Learn SEL. - MEMO #COVID-19-168 The mental health and social and emotional learning (SEL) of our students and more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 19 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo by William A. Pearson, interim deputy superintendent division of educator, student, and school supports: TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents Public School Academy Directors FROM: William A. Pearson, Ed.D., Interim Deputy Superintendent Division of Educator, Student, and School Supports SUBJECT: Critical Shortage List for Employment of Retiree more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 19 -- The Michigan Department of Education issued the following news release: The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) has selected 44 grantees across the state to develop new opportunities for students in grades 6-12 to explore education professions. The Future Proud Michigan Explore program is an important element of MDE's larger Proud Michigan Educator campaign, and a continuation of Michigan's efforts to grow and diversify the educator workforce. The Explore prog more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 20 -- The Michigan Department of Education issued the following news release: The Michigan Department of Education is pleased to announce the release of the latest #proudMIeducator video, featuring educators from Mt. Pleasant Public Schools who are hosting Central Michigan University (CMU) future teachers in their classrooms. This is the 27th video to be released since the series began in fall 2016. The video can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/eHYRi0QqRgM "It is impor more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 17 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release on March 16, 2021: Chair Lavora Barnes announced the newest addition to the Michigan Democratic Party. Rodericka Applewhaite has been named Senior Communications Advisor for the 2022 cycle, with a focus on the race for governor and holding Michigan Republicans accountable. "We're thrilled to have Rodericka on board," said MDP Chair Lavora Barnes. "She brings to the Michigan Democratic Party years of  more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 16 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following statement on March 15, 2021: * * * The Michigan Democratic Party released the following statement on behalf of Chair Lavora Barnes. "This has to be a joke. The MIGOP is more concerned about how many people can watch the Tigers play in person on opening day, than they are about the continued impact that COVID-19 is having on our lives, and the lives of our families and loved ones. "The Michigan Republicans have  more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 19 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release on March 18, 2021: Earlier this week, Republican Majority Leader Mike Shirkey appeared on JTV's Bart Hawley show and doubled down on his original racist description of COVID-19made months prior on the same show, when he said: "The Chinese flu army sent in one of their best soldiers. His name was Rona." Bart Hawley said to Shirkey earlier this week, "At the time when you revealed that you had had [COV more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 19 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release: Despite being the focus of media attention, Congress is not always where the most outlandish Republicans are spewing their vitriol, according to a new report from Mother Jones. In particular, the report notes that Michigan Republicans are a prime example of how these radical viewpoints legitimizing extreme conspiracy theories and embracing white supremacy are incubating in Republican-led state legis more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 17 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo by Kyle Guerrant, deputy superintendent finance and operations: TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents Public School Academy Directors FROM: Kyle Guerrant, Deputy Superintendent Finance and Operations SUBJECT: Public Act 3 of 2021; Supplemental Appropriation Subsection 11r(4) for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 - MEMO #COVID-19-167 On March 9, 2021, Gove more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 17 -- The Michigan Department of Education issued the following news release: Public comment regarding a request to waive the federal requirements to administer the statewide summative assessment this school year ran overwhelmingly supportive, the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) reported today. Federal waiver requests require public comment to be sought. A public comment period was offered for three weeks, from January 25 to February 12, 2021. There were 298 com more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 20 -- The Michigan Public Service Commission issued the following news release on March 19, 2021: The Michigan Public Service Commission today approved DTE Electric Co.'s application to begin the second phase of its Charging Forward electric vehicle pilot program (Case No. U-20935). Today's order permits DTE Electric to spend up to $10.3 million on operation and maintenance costs for the program's second phase in 2021-2025. The costs will be reviewed for reasonableness more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 18 -- The Michigan Republican Party issued the following news: Attorney General Dana Nessel is putting cronyism ahead of leadership by refusing to launch an investigation into the decision-making process, and subsequent impact, of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's nursing home orders. Eight state senators in Michigan, led by State Sen. Jim Runestad (R-White Lake), asked Nessel to launch an investigation into whether the governor's policies may have exacerbated deaths from COVID- more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 20 -- The Michigan Republican Party issued the following news: Under the leadership of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel locked up a small business owner Friday morning after she kept her Holland-Michigan pizzeria open to the public. Marlena Hackney, who escaped communist rule in Poland as a teenager, was arrested Friday morning for, continuing to, "willfully violate the state's food laws." Nessel and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Developme more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 18 -- The Michigan Republican Party issued the following news: MIGOP Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock responds to news that Elizabeth Hertel-appointed Deputy Director of the Department of Health and Human Services, David Knezek, is double dipping off the taxpayer's dime, according to the Detroit Free Press. Knezek, a member of the Wayne County Commission where he makes $62,592 per year, was brought on to serve as one of three chief deputy directors of DHHS under Hertel. Servin more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 19 -- The Michigan Republican Party issued the following news: Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was forced to waive the confidentiality portion of a secret deal made with Robert Gordon, the former director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), after the Michigan Republican Party exposed the secret deal and called for it to be nullified. "We are pleased that our efforts forced the governor to waive this confidentiality agreement, but very serious more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 18 (TNSJou) -- Michigan State University issued the following news release: Many people have never heard of Brucellosis, but farmers and ranchers in the United States forced to cull animals that test positive for the disease and people infected by the animal-transmitted Brucella abortus (B. abortus) pathogen that suffer chronic, Malaria-type symptoms, certainly have. Brucellosis is an agricultural and human health concern on a global scale. It was introduced over  more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 16 (TNSRes) -- Michigan State University's College of Social Science issued the following news release: Dr. Nwando Achebe, the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History and Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Michigan State University College of Social Science, has recently won the 2020-21 William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award. The Beal award celebrates 10 faculty each year who, through their teaching, research, public service  more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 17 (TNSRes) -- Michigan State University issued the following news release: Alison Bernstein, a College of Human Medicine assistant professor of Translational Neuroscience, has received an Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The award is in recognition of her research into the interaction of genetics and environmental exposure, such as how some pesticides alter neurons in the brain that produc more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 19 (TNSRes) -- Michigan State University issued the following Q&A: Now that there are authorized and recommended COVID-19 vaccines, it is critical people receive accurate information. Peter Gulick, professor of medicine at the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and infectious disease expert, reviews some myths about the vaccine and counters these with scientific facts. Myth: The COVID-19 vaccines were developed in a rush, so their effectiven more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 19 (TNSRes) -- Michigan State University issued the following news release: Two fisheries and wildlife undergraduate students designed and built a box that allows bird banding to be performed safely during the novel coronavirus pandemic. As the novel coronavirus pandemic began shuttering many business operations worldwide in March 2020, uncertainties abounded. There were more questions than answers, from personal and community health concerns to navigating new res more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 17 (TNSRes) -- Michigan State University issued the following news release on March 16, 2021: Plants were evolving for hundreds of millions of years before humans started cultivating them for food. So when the first farmers showed up some 12,000 years ago, plants had already picked up some inefficiencies -- that is, adaptations that helped the plants survive but also limited their productivity as crops. Today, some of those inefficiencies appear to be getting wor more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 16 (TNSJou) -- Michigan State University issued the following news release: More often than ever before, water available in rivers is at the mercy of climate change, international researchers collaborating on a worldwide study with Michigan State University have revealed. The finding could profoundly affect future water and food security around the world. Yadu Pokhrel, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering in the MSU College of Engineering and more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 19 (TNSJou) -- Michigan State University issued the following news release: Michigan State University ranks ninth in the world and is the only U.S. university in the top ten in terms of advancements in environmental antimicrobial resistance research, according to a recent announcement by the Global Health Research and Policy. "This recognition that reflects on accomplishments dating back to 2000 further establishes and reinforces MSU as a long-time leader of envir more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 16 (TNSRep) -- Michigan State University issued the following news release: Third grade literacy has improved in Michigan according to a new report on Michigan's Read by Grade 3 law from Michigan State University's Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, the strategic research partner of the Michigan Department of Education. But progress is threatened because of insufficient targeted funding and concerns that students have fallen behind during the COVID-19 pand more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 16 (TNSRes) -- Michigan State University issued the following news release: Just 51% of Americans expressed a clear willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine compared to 71% of residents in the United Kingdom, according to a new study conducted by Michigan State University's Quello Center during the first nine months of the pandemic. "The data suggests that due to the confusion that existed in American politics, with even our leaders at the highest levels casting d more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 20 (TNSRes) -- Michigan State University issued the following news release: "What is fair?" feels like a rhetorical question. But for Michigan State University's Pang-Ning Tan, it's a question that demands an answer as artificial intelligence systems play a growing role in deciding who gets proper health care, a bank loan or a job. With funding from Amazon and the National Science Foundation, Tan has been working for the last year to teach artificial intelligence  more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 18 (TNSJou) -- Michigan State University issued the following news release: Digital communication is a way to bridge the racial disparity gap in cervical cancer information and follow up. An estimated 14,480 new cases of invasive cervical cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year, according to the American Cancer Society. Cases that could be prevented or cured with better education from screening to treatment based on improved provider-patient commun more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 19 (TNSJou) -- Michigan State University issued the following news release: An estimated 14,480 new cases of invasive cervical cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year, according to the American Cancer Society. Cases that could be prevented or cured with better education from screening to treatment based on improved provider-patient communication, says a Michigan State University researcher. The issue is particularly acute for Black women, said Sabr more PR

HOUGHTON, Michigan, March 17 (TNSJou) -- Michigan Technological University issued the following news: The electron is one of the fundamental particles in nature we read about in school. Its behavior holds clues to new ways to store digital data. In a study published in Nano Letters, physicists from Michigan Technological University explore alternative materials to improve capacity and shrink the size of digital data storage technologies. Ranjit Pati, professor of physics at Michigan Tech, led  more PR

MARQUETTE, Michigan, March 19 (TNSPer) -- Northern Michigan University issued the following news release on March 18, 2021: Northern Michigan University has announced 10 students who comprise the new group of scholars in the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. Lee Xiong has also joined NMU this semester as its new program director. The McNair Scholars program is designed to increase graduate rates and post-baccalaureate success among first-generation students with financia more PR

MARQUETTE, Michigan, March 20 (TNSPer) -- Northern Michigan University issued the following news release: Leslie Warren, Northern Michigan University dean of Library and Instructional Support, has accepted an appointment as chair for the final year of her two-year term on the American Library Association's Rural, Native, and Tribal Libraries of All Kinds Committee. She will serve in the leadership role from July 1 through June 30, 2022. The committee's charge is to review issues and challenges more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 19 (TNSJou) -- Michigan State University's College of Natural Science issued the following news: In a paper recently published in Nature Communications, scientists in Susannah Dorfman's Experimental Mineralogy Lab at Michigan State University redefined the conditions under which carbonates can exist in the earth's lower mantle, adding to our understanding of the deep carbon cycle and the earth's evolution. "The circulation of carbon and minerals from the surface o more PR

NACOGDOCHES, Texas, March 19 (TNSPer) -- Stephen F. Austin State University issued the following news release: Lorenzo M. Smith, Ph.D., professor and dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Sacramento, will be Stephen F. Austin State University's next provost and executive vice president. Smith earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; a master's from Wayne State University in Detroi more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 16 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following Q&A: As the fifth anniversary of the passage of the Toxic Substances Control Act approaches this June, a University of Michigan researcher will discuss the impact the law has had on the regulation of industrial and commercial chemicals. Trish Koman, a research investigator in environmental health sciences at the U-M School of Public Health, will take part in a Facebook Live virtual discussion 7-9 p.m. Mar more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 18 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: The University of Michigan received a major grant in humanities from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a multi-institutional digital futures collaborative led by a professor whose research involves digital inequality. This $4.8 million award is the ninth grant from Mellon to U-M in the past two years. "I'm absolutely thrilled that the Mellon Foundation has chosen to fund the creation of D more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 19 (TNSRep) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: The President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality at the University of Michigan has submitted its final report, which contains recommendations to help the university achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. The report includes 50 recommendations that U-M could take to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions across the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses. Recommendations account for U-M's: Scope more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 13 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following Q&A on March 12, 2021: What does humility mean and why does it matter in an age of golden escalators and billionaire entrepreneurs? How can the cultivation of humility empower us to see success in failure, to fight against injustice, to stretch beyond our usual ways of thinking, and to foster a culture of listening in an age of digital shouting? A new book edited by Rebekah Modrak, professor at the U-M St more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 19 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: The University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy will launch a new predoctoral research program--in partnership with a consortium of leading policy schools--that seeks to expand and broaden research fellowship and faculty mentorship opportunities for public policy master's degree graduates. Focusing on graduates from a diverse set of experiences with an interest in and aptitude for academic  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 17 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: As robots and autonomous systems are poised to become part of our everyday lives, the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Co. are opening a one-of-a-kind facility where they'll develop robots and roboticists that help make lives better, keep people safer and build a more equitable society. U-M's Ford Motor Company Robotics Building is a four-story, $75 million, 134,000-square-foot complex situated  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 16 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Insider trading grabs headlines, gets the Hollywood treatment and garners plenty of investigations. Yet a far less notorious and scrutinized activity known as "insider giving" similarly damages markets and the broader society despite its nicer-sounding name, according to new research. Cindy Schipani and Nejat Seyhun, professors at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, have co more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 13 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Work in Nicholas Kotov's lab has continued during the pandemic as researchers develop a new rechargeable zinc battery that integrates into the structure of a robot to provide much more energy. The battery membrane is a nanomaterial based on cartilage, using recycled Kevlar. "The design of the membrane is based on 30 years of work of understanding how the membrane's nature works and also how more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 17 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: When researcher Lauren Zalla was digging into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's reports about the racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 deaths, she found something startling. She discovered that the CDC was using a statistical method that controls for geography when reporting deaths from COVID-19 by race and ethnicity. This distorts the rates of COVID deaths in different r more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 20 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: A groundbreaking law that gives consumers more agency over the sale of their private information was updated in California this week, and it reflects the work of two university teams. Additional regulations added to the California Consumer Privacy Act to include adoption of a Privacy Options icon come just as the team of researchers that helped lawmakers design the blue button get ready to s more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 18 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release on March 17, 2021: University of Michigan researchers will enlist the help of citizen scientists in a new project to digitize thousands of historical records--some dating back more than a century--about Michigan inland lake conditions and fish abundances. Scientists will feed the digitized data into computer models to study the impacts of climate change and other factors on the fish in Michig more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 20 -- The University of Michigan issued the following Q&A: A spike in verbal and physical violence against Asian Americans has garnered increased coverage, highlighted by anti-Asian sentiments dating back to the beginning of the pandemic early last year. University of Michigan assistant history professor Ian Shin, whose teaching focuses on Asian American history, said the verbal assaults and physical attacks against Asian Americans and their businesses being vandaliz more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 17 -- The University of Michigan issued the following Q&A: The American Rescue Plan Act, the latest $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus plan, includes $800 million to support children and youth experiencing homelessness. Jennifer Erb-Downward, a senior research associate at the University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions initiative who studies family homelessness, has been tracking the effect of the pandemic on people without stable housing. She discusses the potential im more PR

DETROIT, Michigan, March 20 -- Wayne State University issued the following news: In an effort to stay informed regarding important university dates, deadlines and policies, students can get overwhelmed by communications and to-do items from various departments, professors, financial aid, advising, groups and organizations. Wayne State is helping ease this burden by offering students the ability to use artificial intelligence (AI) to navigate important university information regarding registrati more PR