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Relatively simple changes to the way traditional brick kilns operate in Bangladesh can reduce pollution, save fuel and improve the quality of bricks they produce. Learn about this @umich research.
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“Safety doesn’t come from certainty. It comes from community.”
At @UMichSPH's inaugural Global Public Health Futures event, Dr. @RajPanjabi discussed trust, resilience and leading through crisis with Dean Charles Holmes.
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Join us on Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at 5:30 PM in the Hussey Room in the Michigan League at the University of Michigan for the first-ever Halaloween panel collaboration between the Global Islamic Studies Center and Michigan Medicine’s Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine! An expert panel of pediatric, geriatric, hospice, and palliative care medical doctors, hospital chaplains, and horror film scholars will discuss how the horror genre and horror movies can be tools for people dealing with illness, grief, death, loss, and shared fears that are both specific to and transcend religion and culture.
Panelists will discuss: what can horror tell us about the fears that people bring with them when they encounter bodily illness and healthcare providers, particularly when they, their elders, or their children are experiencing serious illness, the process of dying, ambiguous loss, or anticipatory grief? Can Muslim and spiritually or religiously themed horror movies provide psychological catharsis and alleviate suffering?
This panel is free & in person, but RSVP is strongly encouraged: forms.gle/7QfdpWK9kg8v2Ak58
Meet the panelists:
Dr. Adam Marks, MD, Clinical Professor of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine; Medical Director, Hospice Program and Adult Hospice
Dr. Nurah Omobola Lawal, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Dr. Karla Mallette, Professor of Italian and Mediterranean Studies; Founder, Halaloween
Chaplain LJ Brazier, Michigan Medicine Spiritual Care Department, Palliative Care
Chaplain Maryam Ashraf, Michigan Medicine Spiritual Care Department, Spiritual and Muslim Patient Care
Moderator: Dr. Aliyah Khan, Director, Global Islamic Studies Center; Associate Professor of English & Afroamerican and African Studies
This panel is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) in collaboration with the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan Medical School.
What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”
The festival is mostly in-person and free–but make sure to reserve tickets! In-person screenings will be first-come, first-served, with RSVPs strongly encouraged.
The 2026 Halaloween Lineup:
October 8: Madayen | Saudi Arabia | 2016 | 7:00 PM | Arab American National Museum, Dearborn
October 13: Under the Shadow | Iran | 2016 | 7:00 PM | State Theatre, Ann Arbor
October 20: Tiger Stripes | Malaysia | 2023 | 7:00 PM | State Theatre, Ann Arbor
October 27: Halaloween x Michigan Medicine Panel: “Fears of the Body: Processing Illness, Death, and Loss with Horror Movies” | Hussey Room, Michigan League, University of Michigan
October 29: “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape": Halaloween Short Films and Live Music Score Retrospective at Devil's Night Detroit | Short films Aicha and Enmity Jinn | 7:00 PM | Brooklyn Detroit, Corktown (venue). *This event is ticketed and not free.
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Date: November 4, 4:30 PM ET
Location: 555 Weiser Hall (5th Floor), 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor MI
Join the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) on November 4, 2026, at 4:30 PM in 555 Weiser Hall, University of Michigan, for a Qahwah & Authors book series author talk on LANDING IN PLACE, Sherine Hamdy's coming-of-age graphic novel about Anisa, a second-generation Egyptian-Muslim American college girl navigating identity, culture, religion, and family.
Balancing humor with family tragedy and moments of joy amid political trauma, LANDING IN PLACE weaves together personal and global histories, spanning the Suez Crisis of 1956, the 2011 Arab Spring protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, and contemporary global protests for Palestinian rights. Through Anisa’s experiences as a young, hijab-wearing Muslim woman, Hamdy explores how migration to and diaspora in the United States, and neocolonialism and foreign intervention in Egypt and the Global South shape individual lives and family histories. LANDING IN PLACE begins as a story shaped by migrant and exile frustration and external assumptions about Muslim women, and evolves into one that celebrates Muslim identity and cultures, and the power of finding one’s voice.
This event is brought to you by the University of Michigan Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) and the Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Program in the Department of American Culture.
About Sherine Hamdy: Sherine Hamdy is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Irvine, where she joined the faculty in 2017. She was previously a tenured faculty member at Brown University since 2006. She has published widely on the themes of Muslim medical ethics, the political economic distribution of disease in Egypt, and the role of physicians in the Arab spring uprisings. Her first book Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt was published by the University of California Press in 2012. Hamdy also inaugurated the University of Toronto Press graphic novel series ethnoGRAPHIC with her co-authored graphic novel Lissa: A Story of Friendship, Medical Promise, and Revolution, which combines panel-to-panel comics narration with her medical anthropology research. In 2026, Penguin Random House published Hamdy's graphic novel Landing in Place, illustrated by Myra El Mir. Hamdy currently serves as Series Editor for the University of Toronto Press ethnoGRAPHIC series, and encourages academics to adopt multiple media forms in their distribution of research findings.
For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.
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🏅Legalized online sports #gambling is a growing problem among college students, according to @UMich expert.
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🏠 Does where you live impact your risk for #dementia? Researchers at @umichsph are analyzing memory and cognitive data across 20 countries to uncover global variations and shape tailored prevention strategies.
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Species matters more than location for mollusk microbiomes 🐚 @umich researchers reviewed 85 studies & found that two clams of the same species in Michigan and Europe share more similar gut microbiomes than two different species in the same lake! 🧬
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Beth Lane, an English alum from LSA, chronicled the journey of her mother, aunts, and uncle—seven Jewish siblings who were hidden in Germany before escaping to the U.S. myumi.ch/7JXrd
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The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature has been awarded to Anne Carson, former LSA professor, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.” myumi.ch/4xWXm
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Calling all SiSA Alumni (2006–2025)! 💙
Celebrate 20 years of global exploration with @UmichCSAS this Friday, Oct 9 (11 AM–3 PM) at the Michigan League!
Reconnect with peers, enjoy free lunch, and see how the program has evolved.
RSVP here: myumi.ch/QMw9r
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10/3/26: Join us for Saturday Morning Physics | “Do People Really Believe THAT? The Science of Survey Research” with Yanna Krupnikov, U-M Professor of Communication and Media
Hybrid Lecture and Q&A. Discover more here: saturdaymorningphysics.org
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💆♂️Green spaces provide our busy minds room to recover. Gardens, parks, etc., 🌳 help reduce repetitive worries. Hear more from Hala Darwish at @UMich. news.umich.edu/michigan-mind…
"Global health research has a long history of producing treatments, knowledge and economic benefits that advantage wealthy countries in unexpected ways. It is an area where the U.S. can do well by doing good." Josh Ehrlich #TheConvoUS @umisr @UM_cghe
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Sunday, #Brazil decides. And the polls are anything but settled 🗳️. We've got insightful @UMich voices ready to talk—on the latest polling, economy, Banco Master scandal & +.
🎙️ EN/PT/ES interviews.
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New research led by @UMich is helping set the stage for future observatories to characterize rocky planets outside our solar system, planets that could prove life isn't confined to Earth.
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University of Michigan School of Information researchers are advancing knowledge that builds a better world. Here are some of their recent publications, in @PNASNexus, @BigDataSoc, @CambridgeUP, @TRSE_Editor and beyond: myumi.ch/9J3yP
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Voto envergonhado de bolsonaristas é mito ou verdade? Especialista da Universidade de Michigan explica bbc.in/46GOZeY
Big news for #UMich students, staff, faculty, and alumni! The Center for Academic Innovation and Google are providing free access to Google Career Certificates and Essential courses across all three campuses at no cost. 👇
U-M’s Center for Academic Innovation (@UMichiganAI) and @Google have launched a partnership that provides @UMichStudents across all three campuses with access to Google Career Certificates and Essential courses. Learn more: myumi.ch/A11MV #URecord
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Specialized equipment and unparalleled expertise at the new University of Michigan Histotripsy Center will advance clinical research and education of histotripsy, an ultrasound-based cancer treatment that destroys tumors without surgery. myumi.ch/G7qZR
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#Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has proposed a constitutional amendment that would force political candidates for president, governor and Mexico City's head of government to hold only Mexican citizenship.
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