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National and statewide awards honor EIC staff member and ’15 alum Donna Posont for her work as an inclusive naturalist educator and advocate.
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‘HACKIN’ IT’ TO DISCOVER PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS
Nearly 300 students from UM-Dearborn and beyond — stretching from California to New York to Canada — traveled to campus last weekend to take part in Hack Dearborn. The third annual hackathon was organized by the university’s chapter of the Google Developer Student Club. For more than 24 hours, teams worked together to create apps, web platforms and other software and hardware projects, listen to professional speakers, and present their work. “It is incredible to see just how far it has been able to grow over these past few years,” says CECS student Shams Fatma Ahson, who helped organize the event for the past two years. “We started with just a small team of six people who had not much in common besides a goal to create accessible opportunities for people from varying backgrounds and skill levels in the technology industry. It has been incredible to see how our small passion project has gone from just 100 hackers to 300-plus from different places around the world.”
Projects focused on environmental solutions, mobility concerns, consumer protection challenges and more. Over a dozen sponsors — which included companies like fetch.ai, Amazon and Carhartt — had representatives at the event. The winning teams were awarded prizes totaling $7,500.
Photos by Annie Barker
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| BOARD OF REGENTS MEETING
Today, Oct. 17, 3:30 p.m., Riverfront Center, UM-Flint
Check out the agenda for the October Board of Regents meeting and watch the livestream.
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| ART IN NATURE WALK
Today, Oct. 17, 2-4 p.m., Environmental Interpretive Center
Join an EIC naturalist for a guided walk on the campus trails and look for ways to be creatively inspired. Please bring your own camera (or phone), dress appropriately for the weather and, if you want, bring your own art supplies. There will be some art supplies provided. If you can’t make it today, there are additional walks planned this fall. Get more information.
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| AMERICAN RED CROSS FALL BLOOD DRIVE
Monday, Oct. 21, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Kochoff Hall A and B, Renick University Center
Sign up to volunteer or donate for this campus blood drive. Learn more.
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| NOMINATE A STAFF COLLEAGUE FOR AN AWARD TODAY
It’s the last day to nominate a staff member or team who showcases extraordinary efforts while performing their jobs for the Chancellor’s Staff Recognition Awards. The deadline is 5 p.m. today. For additional information on the categories and process, visit the awards website.
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| CELEBRATE THE UM-DEARBORN WRITING AWARDS WINNERS
Listen to student winners read and present their work in fiction, researched writing, science/technical writing, poetry and more at the Oct. 24 ceremony in CASL 1072. The reception begins at 5:30 p.m., and the award ceremony and readings begin at 6 p.m. If you are planning to attend, reach out to Sharon Rose Piwang.
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| CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS MONTH: LOOK OUT FOR JOB SCAM MESSAGES
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. In each Reporter this month, Information Technology Services will share advice on how to keep your information safe.
U-M faculty, staff and students can add an extra layer of security to U-M's Gmail email messages by using Virtru, which allows for sending end-to-end encrypted email. Virtru includes a number of security features and options to encrypt your email and help you control access to the email that you send when using the tool. You choose whether to turn encryption on for each email that you send. If on, you'll be able to see whether the recipient has opened the email, prevent a forwarded email from being read, set an expiry date beyond which the email cannot be read, revoke the ability to read an email after it has been sent, and more. For more information about Virtru, see this one-pager.
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