Reporting Campus Crime and Suspicious Activity

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Please remind all colleagues to:

Call DPS immediately if you observe suspicious behavior in your building;
Protect a potential crime scene by not entering the immediate area until police arrive;
Carefully follow established security procedures, especially for secured areas; and
Keep doors locked especially during non-business hours and not prop open any doors.

Virtual Tour Audio Transcript

This is Mary Beth Lewis, from the University of Michigan School of Public Health Office of Communications. I'm here with Martin Philbert, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Facilities at the School.

LEWIS SAYS: Martin, You've overseen facilities during a period of great growth at the School of Public Health. What will be the lasting impact of the new buildings?

PHILBERT SAYS: The new crossroads building is a half million square foot complex that is more than a technology update. The new building adds over 16 thousand square feet of classroom, research and meeting space and artfully joins our facilities creating a place where interaction between the school's many disciplines, centers, and community partners can flourish. It brings us together and provides dozens of new meeting spaces where we can exchange ideas, and information with each and conduct important research. Contemporary concepts of public health and environmental health are reflected by the use of natural materials such as brick, limestone, and sustainable wood. Our café serves healthy and locally sourced foods.

LEWIS SAYS: How does the new Crossroads building help the school fulfill its mission, locally and beyond?

PHILBERT SAYS: The School of Public Health sits on the main University of Michigan Campus in Ann Arbor, within a stone's throw of the student residence halls and within a block of the University's health system and the UM's life sciences facilities. This greatly facilitates interdisciplinary research and study. Our mission is to create and disseminate knowledge with the aim of preventing disease and promoting the health of populations. Both on the University of Michigan campus and globally, we aspire to serve as a crossroads of knowledge, where ideas and people from the biological, physical, social, and managerial sciences meet. We are now better prepared than ever before to do that. We can welcome and accommodate our local colleagues and, with the technology built into the Crossroads, those from around the world.

LEWIS SAYS: Do you have favorite aspects of the new facilities that you would like to tell people about?

PHILBERT SAYS: Our state of the art video conference centers connect us at all levels to the county, state, national, and global partners with whom we collaborate. Also, the common areas of the new complex provide a mixing bowl of crossroads that catalyze planned and unexpected interactions of all kinds.

LEWIS SAYS: In addition to being Senior Associate Dean for research and facilities of the School of Public Health, Martin Philbert is the professor of Toxicology in the department of Environmental Health Sciences.