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The 1955 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1955 Big Ten Conference football season. In their eighth season under head coach Bennie Oosterbaan, the Wolverines finished in third place in the Big Ten Conference, compiled a 7–2 record, and were ranked No. 12 and No. 13 in the final AP and UPI Polls.
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Mark Steven Schlissel is an American academic administrator and medical scientist who was most recently president of the University of Michigan. He was named the 14th president of the university on July 1, 2014, following the retirement of Mary Sue Coleman. His initial contract with the University of Michigan lasted five years, and he received a second five-year contract, which was due to expire in 2024. He had planned to step down as president in 2023, but was removed by the University of Michigan Board of Regents on January 15, 2022, due to involvement "in an inappropriate relationship with a University employee." He is the only University of Michigan President to have had a successful motion of no confidence passed against him by the faculty senate.
Emma Jane Cole was an American teacher, botanist and curator, and the author of Grand Rapids Flora: A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Growing Without Cultivation in the Vicinity of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2007.
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- ↑ "David M. Kramer". Michigan State University Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ↑ "David M. Kramer". Michigan State University Plant Research Laboratory. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
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