October 12, 2009
More online:List of free-view U-M Press titles in HathiTrust >U-M Press’ digital transition >U-M Library’s Digitization Project >HathiTrust > U-M Press is joining with HathiTrust Digital Library to open electronic content for free online access. U-M Press plans to have 1,000 or more titles available for full viewing by the end of this year. Launched…
October 12, 2009
All of Washtenaw County’s autopsies are now being performed at the U-M morgue, and the county medical examiner’s office has been moved to campus. The move is part of an ongoing partnership between the university and the county government. The county helped to fund a new state-of-art morgue that opened at the hospital in July.…
October 12, 2009
A new investigation of a fossilized tracksite in southern Africa shows how early dinosaurs made on-the-fly adjustments to their movements to cope with slippery and sloping terrain. Differences in how early dinosaurs made these adjustments provide insight into the later evolution of the group. The study, conducted by researchers at U-M, Argentina’s Universidad de Buenos…
October 12, 2009
University mathematicians and their British colleagues say they have identified the signal that the brain sends to the rest of the body to control biological rhythms, a finding that overturns a long-held theory about our internal clock. Understanding how the human biological clock works is an essential step toward correcting sleep problems like insomnia and…
October 12, 2009
People who happened to be near Palmer Field on the afternoon of Oct. 5 may have witnessed this inflatable monument marking the 20th anniversary of the overthrow of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauçescu. Project HOT AIR was constructed by Anca Trandafirescu, assistant professor of architecture, and is designed to resemble the head of a fallen statue.…
October 12, 2009
When Mary Jo Grand was diagnosed with lung cancer, the diagnosis was grim. Grand’s doctor offered statistics indicating a survival rate of six months to a year. But then Dr. Gregory Kalemkerian, director of the Lung Cancer Research Program at U-M, gave Grand the opportunity to participate in a clinical trial for people with her…
October 12, 2009
25th anniversary video of Maria Cotera >25th anniversary video of Anthony Mora >Latina/o Faculty videos > Latina/o Studies Program > To commemorate 25 years of the Latina/o Studies Program, it has organized a three-day symposium focusing on many topics including future challenges for Latina/o scholars in the new demographic reality of the nation. With the…
October 12, 2009
“Credentials and Competencies for Child Welfare Best Practice: A Topic for Serious Debate, Discussion, and Timely Decisions” will be examined during the Fedele F. and Iris M. Fauri Memorial Lecture. This lecture will address the transformation of Michigan’s child welfare workforce. Presenters will speak to the national debate about whether a social work degree is…
October 12, 2009
Women often begin exercising to lose weight or to improve their health. This, however, can be unproductive because they won’t be motivated to continue the routine permanently, an Institute for Research on Women and Gender expert says. “These messages lead women in midlife to feel like exercise is a chore to accomplish rather than a…
October 12, 2009
Caldwell The Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President has named six professors as fellows in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation’s Academic Leadership Program for the 2009-10 academic year. The selected professors are: • Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, associate professor of health behavior and health education, School of Public Health • Myron Campbell, professor of…
