Stewardship - The State Universities of Michigan and the Public Good, Sep. 2, 2020

September 2, 2020

Michigan's 15 public universities are pleased to share the following news items with you. Stewardship is a monthly update on various activities our universities are engaged in that enrich their communities, regions, and the state of Michigan.

COVID-19 Response

In short supply: Using AI to navigate out of a COVID treatment supply issue [UM]

Michigan News (Aug. 5)

How Michigan scientists are using beach testing tools to find COVID-19 infections [SVSU, MSU, OU, NMU]

MLive (Aug. 12)

Faculty, students at Ferris State University answer the call for help during pandemic

WPBN TV (Aug. 17)

College of Arts, Sciences, & Letters debuts pandemic-focused concentrations this fall [UM-D]

UM-Dearborn News (Aug. 17)

How Michigan Tech brought COVID testing to the Upper Peninsula

Michigan Radio (Aug. 18)

COVID-19 Screenings at U.S. Airports Remain Inconsistent [WMU]

Conde Nast (Aug. 19)

Ypsi Mask Project Launched To Help Ypsilanti Community Schools [EMU]

WEMU FM (Aug. 26)

Testing The Waters: MSU Searches For COVID Beneath The Campus

WKAR FM (Aug. 26)

New coronavirus ad campaign launches in Michigan, aimed at stopping spread [OU]

Detroit Free Press (Aug. 27)

Michigan coronavirus hospital patients got unneeded antibiotics, new study shows [UM]

Detroit Free Press (Aug. 27)

MSU Saliva Test Offers Non-Intrusive Scan For COVID-19

WKAR FM (Aug. 28)

Economic Development – Research, Tech Transfer, & Innovation

Smart brick inventor wins GVSU Lakeshore Innovator of the Year Award

GVNext (Aug. 3)

Why humanlike robots are such a mind-bending engineering challenge [UM-D]

UM-Dearborn News (Aug. 3)

National Academy of Inventors honors Eastern Michigan University professor Vijay Mannari among its latest class of exceptional nationwide Innovators

EMU Today (Aug. 19)

Robots Can Now Store Energy Just Like Fat in Humans [UM]

Atoms Talk (Aug. 20)

Self-powered wildfire detector could help prevent deadly blazes [MSU]

Science (Aug. 24)

Economic Development – Local Partnerships

Traverse City-MTU connection continues

Record-Eagle (Aug. 2)

New $50 million VC fund aims to keep businesses local for next generation [WMU]

MiBiz (Aug. 28)

Environmental & Agricultural Sustainability

Public Museum scientists team up with local partners on studying Grand River [GVSU]

WKTV Journal (Aug. 28)

Health Care

Ferris State University Receives Federal Grant for Cancer Research

WWTV TV (Aug. 3)

NMU Bear Center Receives Grant for Expansion

Northern Today (Aug. 21)

Oakland University professor awarded $550,178 NSF grant

Patch (Aug. 31)

K-12 Outreach

MSU offers free program to support K-12 school districts

WILX TV (Aug. 13)

NMU Prof Helps Teachers Address Water Quality

Northern Today (Aug. 19)

Physical literacy is a movement that's catching fire [EMU]

Second Wave Michigan (Aug. 20)

WMU education instructors offer advice for parents navigating virtual learning with young kids

WMU News (Aug. 28)

Global Outreach

OU medical student raises $70K to send medical supplies to Lebanon

The Oakland Press (Aug. 10)

Public Health & Safety

LSSU alumnus, Joel Postma, named Michigan’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Coordinator

WLUC TV (Aug. 7)

Ferris State receives $1M federal grant to fight opioid misuse in West Michigan

MLive (Aug. 14)

Relying on electronic voting machines puts us at risk, security expert says [UM]

PRI (Aug. 17)

Civic Engagement and Education

Local academic institutions take steps to be a solution in the conversation about racial injustice [CMU, SVSU, GVSU]

Epicenter (Aug. 20)

Surviving a flood: Redridge dams suffered damage but kept water back during Father’s Day flood [MTU]

The Daily Mining Gazette (Aug. 21)

Faculty Expertise

In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Cracks Emerge in the Pro-Trump Base [LSSU]

The New York Times (Aug. 27)

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