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June 8, 2009
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June 8, 2009
Award President Mary Sue Coleman was presented with an Alumni Award by Grinnell College in Iowa during its recent Alumni Reunion Weekend. Alumni Award winners have distinguished themselves in their careers and communities and embody Grinnell’s mission of lifelong learning and service. The 1965 graduate was cited for using the tools of higher education to…
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June 8, 2009
A recent series of sessions brought nearly 300 AFSCME stewards and university supervisors together again to work toward solutions to common problems. The meetings, conducted throughout May, continued an initiative called the “Joint Education Program” that began in January. The two-hour sessions on May 12, 14, 21 and 22, took the next step toward reaching…
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June 8, 2009
Families, friends, and colleagues of the U-M Health System transplant team that died two years ago while on a life-saving mission will now have a permanent memorial to their loved ones. Ann Arbor native and U-M alumnus Douglas Hollis created a sculpture memorializing the team members who died when their plane crashed into Lake Michigan…
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June 8, 2009
A relatively new component of the health care reform debate — one developed by and practiced at U-M — is the focus of a bipartisan proposal recently introduced in the U.S. Senate. The legislation seeks to establish a pilot program for some Medicare recipients using the principles of Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID), which balances long-term…
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June 8, 2009
The Ahn Trio, sisters Maria, Lucia and Angella, will speak about their work, artistry, and the need to synthesize, cross cultures and to cross genre boundaries in a 6:30-7:30 p.m., program June 15 at the McIntosh Theater, E.V. Moore Building. (Photo courtesy Gifts Of Art)
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June 8, 2009
William Shakespeare’s story of mistaken love and mistaken identity, “Twelfth Night,” is the featured play as Shakespeare in the Arb returns to the rolling landscape of Nichols Arboretum. Countess Olivia (Devin Lytle) and Duke Orsino (Chris Harrison) are among characters in this year’s Shakespeare in the Arb presentation of “Twelfth Night,” June 11-14, 18-21, and…
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June 8, 2009
Vehicle fuel efficiency made little progress since 1920s Vehicles on America’s roads today get only about three miles more per gallon than vehicles back in 1923, researchers say. A study in the journal Energy Policy by Michael Sivak and Omer Tsimhoni of the U-M Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) shows that overall fuel efficiency for vehicles…
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June 8, 2009
As Michigan lost a quarter of its manufacturing jobs, its University Research Corridor partners helped the state become a national life sciences leader, boosting the number of jobs in that sector 10.7 percent as average wages jumped 29 percent, according to a new analysis released recently at the Mackinac Policy Conference. More than 79,062 Michigan…
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June 8, 2009
Watch an overview of the 100-year history of dance at U-M > Until now, it’s been a hidden gem of local history. A few years ago, it was widely accepted that the history of dance instruction at U-M began a few decades before the department was formally established in 1974. In 1915, when this photograph…
