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Updated 10:00 AM Sept. 25, 2006

News Briefs

Distinguished Dissertation award nominations due Nov. 10

Nominations for the annual Distinguished Dissertation Awards competition are due by 5 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Nominees must have been awarded or will be awarded their doctoral degree during the 2006 calendar year. The awards, which include a $1,000 honorarium, recognize exceptional and unusually interesting work produced by doctoral students during the last phase of their graduate work. For more information, visit www.rackham.umich.edu/Faculty/DDAletter.html or call 647-4557 or 764-8221.

Arts at Michigan seeks submissions

Arts at Michigan invites faculty to participate in Course Connections—a funding program that encourages enhanced learning and instructional satisfaction through the arts. Course Connections offers grants of up to $1,000 for faculty who incorporate arts-based learning into their curricula. Activities could include anything from class trips to cultural institutions to workshops by visiting artists to student performances and exhibitions. Arts at Michigan particularly is excited about initiatives that have the potential to reach a broad audience. Go to: www.arts.umich.edu/funding/faculty/index.html to find out more about proposal criteria and to review previously funded projects.

Don't forget to register for Get in the Game

University staff are reminded to register for the Oct. 3 kickoff of Get in the Game, a free, six-week individualized wellness incentive program from the Michigan Healthy Community Initiative. Participants will choose a weekly health improvement goal in the areas of fitness and/or nutrition, track healthy habits online, and be eligible to win prizes by answering football trivia questions. They also can qualify for postprogram incentive prizes, compete for a departmental award for the unit having the largest percentage of staff participation and learn more about fitness, nutrition and the University in the process. For more information and to register, go to www.mhealthy.umich.edu.

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative examined

The Potential Impact of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) Proposal 2, going before the electorate in November, is the title of a presentation scheduled for noon-2 p.m. Sept. 27 in the third floor Koessler Room of the Michigan League.

Susan Kaufmann, associate director for advocacy, Center for the Education of Women (CEW) will present her research on the potential consequences of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative on public employment, contracting and education with particular emphasis on women. A panel of University representatives will respond to the research findings and answer questions from the audience. They are Carol Hollenshead, CEW director; Patricia Gurin, Nancy Cantor Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Psychology and Women's Studies; and John Matlock, associate vice provost and director, Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives. The research reports that will be discussed are available on the CEW Web site, www.cew.umich.edu. This presentation is free and open to the public. To register (required), call 998-7080. The event is co-sponsored with the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, LS&A Women's Studies Program and the National Center for Institutional Diversity.

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