Earlier
this
month,
the
Martha Cook Residence Hall’s
Board of Governors sent out a
revised 2020-2021 dining hall
schedule to residents. The
new dining plan will include a
17-meal plan Sunday through
Friday, with no dining hall
access on Saturdays. It will also
continue to provide Deluxe Tea
on Friday, and special dining
events throughout the year.
Currently, the Martha Cook
dining hall is open from 7:00
a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on weekdays
and has limited hours on
weekends, while other dining
halls on campus are open
from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on
weekdays and on weekends
from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for
brunch and 5:00 p.m. to 8:00
p.m. for dinner.
With
the
current
plan,
Martha Cook residents aren’t
able to swipe into other dining
halls,
except
on
Saturday
nights
when
the
Martha
Cook dining hall isn’t serving
dinner. With the new plan,
residents wouldn’t be able to
swipe into other dining halls
at all.
More than 100 students had
the opportunity to listen to
current public policy thoughts
from
Denis
McDonough,
former White House Chief
of Staff for President Barack
Obama, during the event “New
Frontiers: Labor, Immigration
and Foreign Policy.”
In
the
conversational
event, McDonough and John
Ciorciari,
director
of
the
Weiser Diplomacy Center and
International Policy Center
and associate professor of
Ford School of Public Policy,
discussed the state of labor
markets
in
association
with the U.S. economy and
international affairs, as well as
reflections on McDonough’s
time at the White House.
When asked what changes
he believed would be needed
to promote a more fair labor
market
and
include
the
strengths
of
individuals,
McDonough responded with
his hopes for the future of the
market.
“I’d
like
to
see
higher
education
become
more
affordable,” McDonough said.
“Also, I’d like just to figure
out a way for us to have a
more nimble training and
education opportunity over
the course of an individual’s
lifetime … So the question is
how do we make the rest of the
training infrastructure more
accessible, flexible and agile
to respond to people’s lives,
rather than making people
drop their lives to try to get
into the system.”
Public
Policy
graduate
student
Kellen
Datta
was
in attendance to learn more
about McDonough’s role in
the Obama administration and
hear his thoughts on the labor
market.
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Marcia
Rieke,
regents’
professor of astronomy at the
University of Arizona, spoke
about the James Webb Space
Telescope (JWST), the upcoming
successor to the Hubble Space
Telescope, in a talk in the
Michigan League on Wednesday.
The lecture was part of Rieke’s
reception of the department
of astronomy’s Mohler Prize,
which is awarded for excellence
in research on astronomy and
astrophysics, and named after
Orren
Mohler,
former
head
of
University
of
Michigan
observatories. Approximately 70
people were in attendance.
Rieke
began
by
talking
about the current Hubble and
explaining why a new space
telescope was being developed.
According to Rieke, the Hubble is
not big or powerful enough to see
the most distant galaxies. This
is because it can only see a small
part of the infrared spectrum.
Rieke explained infrared light
is important for seeing distant
objects because of a phenomenon
called “redshift.”
“The more distant an object,
the more its light output is shifted
to red wavelengths and it gets to
the point where you can’t just rely
on visible light, you have to go to
longer wavelengths to the part
of the spectrum beyond the red,
called infrared,” Rieke said.
Because of redshift and the
discovery that the rate at which
a galaxy moves away from earth
is proportional to how far away
it is from the earth, scientists
can figure out the age of galaxies
from light.
“So if we measure a spectrum
… we know the velocity and
therefore we know how far away
the galaxy is and we know what
its age was when the light was
made,” Rieke said.
While the Hubble in its current
form can see objects formed
up to 13.4 billion years ago, the
new JWST, with its advanced
infrared capabilities, will allow
scientists to see even further
into the past, giving them greater
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announced the Ross School
of Business would launch a
comprehensive
real
estate
center
during
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week’s
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has taken three upper-level
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to undergraduates. She said
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able to take even more courses
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was that I wouldn’t be here for
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this semester),” Walker said.
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construction
of
the
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but it has been long overdue.
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been in need of a Real Estate
program for a very long time,”
Banooni wrote. “Stephen Ross
himself is a guru of real estate,
and the school for me almost
represents
success
in
the
field. I am very jealous of the
students that will have access
to the resources that the new
center will provide.”
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School’s
website,
the
new
Weiser Center for Real Estate
will offer “a suite of practice-
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needs
of
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to
the University of Michigan
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we advocate for changes to
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promulgating that do not have
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best interests of students who
don’t traditionally have a voice
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