In Grenada, where rainbow-colored fish swim in clear turquoise waters, and hills and valleys sprout verdant fruit trees, second-year School of Public Health graduate student Heather Olden had work to do during spring break.
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Editor's note: A summary of this story in Wednesday's University Record email and earlier online versions listed an incorrect grant amount. The correct amount is $2.8 million.
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President Mary Sue Coleman wants Michigan to win.
It was not a partisan athletic cheer she delivered in Lansing on Thursday, but a message of hope for the state as she addressed the importance of funding for higher education.
The U-M community raised more than $1.39 million in the 2013 United Way campaign to help children, families, senior citizens and others who need assistance.
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Gov. Rick Snyder's recommended 6.1 percent budget increase for state universities is "great news for students and families in the state of Michigan," says Cynthia H. Wilbanks, U-M vice president for government relations.
Snyder released his fiscal year 2015 budget recommendations Wednesday in Lansing.
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Two U-M faculty members testified before U.S. House panels Tuesday, about improving the effectiveness of surface transportation safety grant programs, and the impact of the Affordable Care Act's definition of full-time employees on jobs.
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Michigan's University Research Corridor, which includes U-M, ranks high among eight university innovation clusters in a new measure that examines R&D spending, research commercialization and talent production, according to a new Economic Impact Report released Tuesday.
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With the beginning of the new year, U-M has completed the transfer of nearly half of its collections of Native American human remains and cultural objects from burial sites in Michigan to tribes that lived in the areas where they were found.
After a successful inaugural fall semester, the pilot phase of the MDetroit Center Connector will expand its service and features for the 2014 winter term.
The MDCC now offers weekly bus service on Wednesdays, in addition to Fridays and Saturdays.
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More than 75 percent of U-M faculty and staff from all three campuses and U-M Hospitals and Health Centers live in nearby Washtenaw and Wayne counties, 62.2 percent and 13.4 percent, respectively, according to most recent figures.
Michigan’s 15 public universities are key employers and economic drivers in the state, responsible for more than 120,000 jobs, and with spending and earnings accounting for $23.9 billion in economic activity, according to a new report.
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