Education & Society
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Everyone vs. COVID-19: U-M scientists need public’s help
Signing up for U-M registry will make it easy for researchers to find sick, recovered, at-risk, and healthy people for dozens of studies. The goal is to understand, prevent, treat, and measure COVID-19’s effects on people and society.
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Committees to prepare for fall ’20 semester amid COVID-19
Seven coordinated committees will tackle different aspects of academic and campus planning, from instructional planning to the use of academic spaces and libraries.
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M-Response Corps faces down crisis
Their formal education took a detour this spring, so Michigan Medicine students are supporting health care staff and patients through the current pandemic.
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The idea to ‘flatten the curve’
Decades of studying pandemics and how to curb them led a U-M physician-historian to coin a term the rest of us now use in daily conversation.
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Feeling stressed? Take a ‘nature pill’
Spending just 20 minutes in nature — even if it’s simply gardening, doing yardwork or sitting quietly in the backyard — can significantly lower stress hormone levels.
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U-M students share their ‘new normal’
As COVID-19 disrupts university life, pockets of positivity and optimism have emerged, illuminating now more than ever students’ support of each other, and faculty commitment to their education.
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14 things to do if someone you live with has COVID-19
Experts at Michigan Medicine provide tips for helping a family member or roommate cope with coronavirus effects, while protecting yourself and others.
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Tracking COVID in wastewater
We don’t know much about how coronaviruses behave and move through the environment. U-M and Stanford engineers aim to change that.
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Sparks fly and women weld
Samantha Farrugia, MUP ’15, melds women seeking job skills with companies needing welders.