June 8, 2009
The Center for Ethics in Public Life and the Rackham School of Graduate Studies recently announced the first five recipients of summer fellowships for students writing dissertations related to ethics in public life. The new program provides summer support for the students and a summer workshop in which the fellows, drawn from a broad range…
June 8, 2009
Some U-M Library employees have been offered the equivalent of nine months salary to retire by the end of August. The incentive was offered to all retirement-eligible library employees, excluding senior managers. They received the offer in a letter May 29. They have until July 15 to decide whether they will retire by Aug. 31…
June 8, 2009
A team of Stephen M. Ross School of Business MBAs and their startup, Husk Insulation, won the $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize. It is a national student competition founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the U.S. Department of Energy, and utility NSTAR to accelerate the pace of clean energy entrepreneurship. The Ross representatives also…
June 8, 2009
The university has expanded its historic agreement with Google Inc. to create digital copies of millions of U-M library books and journals. The amended agreement, which strengthens library preservation efforts and increases the public’s access to books, is possible because of Google’s pending settlement with a broad class of authors and publishers. The U-M Library…
June 8, 2009
The team that will be racing U-M’s solar car 1,800 miles across Australia in October’s Global Green Challenge unveiled its entry last week. From left, engineering students Dylan Keefe-Reitzell, John Federspiel, Ethan Lardner and Sudeep Rohatgi are on the team’s race crew. The car, named Infinium, has a lithium-ion battery, space-grade solar cells comparable to…
June 8, 2009
Navigating the ever-changing digital landscape. Taking knowledge of the human genome and cell mechanics to the next level to improve disease treatment. Understanding how the structures we build affect the natural environment. These are three of six interdisciplinary teaching and research areas that will be the focus of a second round of junior faculty hiring.…
June 8, 2009
Growth through innovation was a central theme at one of the most well attended sessions of this year’s Mackinac Policy Conference. Three of the four panelists with success stories had a U-M connection. Showing how universities routinely are involved with innovation, President Mary Sue Coleman told the audience on May 28 that “partner or perish”…
May 18, 2009
Stacy Fete has lost track of how many years she has spent living in residence halls. Fete, the North Campus area coordinator for University Housing, has worked in student activities and residence education her entire career. “I love being with students because I get my energy from them,” she says. (Photo by Austin Thomason, U-M…
May 18, 2009
The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its May 14 meeting. Bids to be issued for new Law School academic building and commons The planned new academic building for the Law School and the Law School commons addition to Hutchins Hall received final approval from the Board of Regents on Thursday.…
May 18, 2009
April 2009 crime map > Suspect still sought in assaults The Department of Public Safety (DPS) continues to search for a suspect involved in several reports of inappropriate touching April 18 near the C.C.Little Building. Composite drawing of suspect in a series of assaults. Two women told police an unknown man approached them and tried…
