Tag Archives: AI

Upcoming Vulnerability Management (DS-21) Changes

By | June 18, 2026
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Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing the sphere of cybersecurity threats to IT infrastructures. The number of attacks targeting the university is increasing, while the time between identification and exploitation is decreasing. ITS Information Assurance (IA) is cognizant of the shifting threat landscape and is finalizing updates to the Vulnerability Management (DS-21) standard. Vulnerability management is a critical component of… Read More »

New Resource: Appropriate Use of AI Services

By | June 12, 2026
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As artificial intelligence tools become increasingly integrated into daily work, education, research, and teaching, the University of Michigan has published a new resource to help community members use these powerful services appropriately and responsibly. The Appropriate Use of AI Services & U-M Policy guide provides clear, actionable direction organized around five key areas: Each section links to supporting… Read More »

Q&A with CIO Kerry Flynn: How Ross IT Supports the Evolving Technology Needs of the School

By | June 11, 2026
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Technology supports nearly every part of the work being done at Michigan Ross — from the admissions process and classroom instruction to day-to-day troubleshooting, events, major school projects, and more. Chief Information Officer Kerry Flynn shares how Ross IT supports the Ross community, what major projects are ahead, and how the team is helping the school adapt to evolving… Read More »

When the Data Already Exists: Building Clinical Operations Tools from the Inside Out

By | April 2, 2026
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Across healthcare administration, a quiet inefficiency persists. Critical decisions about provider schedules, workforce planning, and clinical coverage get made from spreadsheets, manual exports, and institutional memory — not because the data doesn’t exist, but because no one has built a bridge between raw data and the people who need to act on it. At the University of Michigan’s Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Allergy, that bridge is now being built from the inside out.

Digitizing 1.7 million specimens at the U-M Herbarium with AI

By | October 11, 2024
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The University of Michigan Herbarium is home to some of the finest botanical collections in the world. Founded in 1837 and growing ever since, their 1.7 million specimens of vascular plants, algae, bryophytes, fungi, and lichens, combined with the expertise of the faculty-curators, students, and staff, provide a world-class facility for teaching and research in systematic biology and… Read More »

TTC publishes ChatGPT Assignments book guide

By | February 15, 2024
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60 plus ideas for Chat GPT Assignments to use in your classroom today.

The University of Michigan’s Teaching and Technology Collaborative has published a book guide (U-M login required) to help instructors incorporate ChatGPT assignments into their classrooms. The book guide, hosted on Academic Technology@Michigan, is based on the book 60+ ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today (Yee et al., 2023). The guide provides an abbreviated introduction to using… Read More »

U-M’s AI for Nanobiotics: Stopping antibiotic-resistant infections

By | June 26, 2023
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In 2019, 4.95 million people died from antimicrobial resistance. “Even before COVID, which worsened the problem, studies showed that by 2050, the number of deaths by antibiotic resistance will be 10 million,” said Angela Violi, a professor of six studies and U-M Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of mechanical engineering. A new computer model has been developed at the… Read More »

U-M Professors discuss how societal impacts compare to technological advances

By | June 6, 2023
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Ross School of Business professor Nigel Melville and Ford School of Public Policy professor Shobita Parthasarathy recently participated in a Faculty Q&A on a U-M podcast, Business and Society with Michigan Ross, to answer questions about the rise of AI and its implications. Melville and Parthasarathy have studied the popularization of AI, as well as what it means… Read More »

UM-Dearborn is launching the first artificial intelligence master’s program in the state

By | March 31, 2021
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The program is hoping to address a major need for qualified AI systems developers. Artificial intelligence is so rapidly transforming a huge array of industries that companies are facing challenges filling positions requiring advanced knowledge of AI systems. One of the reasons for the shortage of workers may simply be a shortage of AI graduate programs. While many… Read More »