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May 4, 2009
Nearly a year after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, Bob Schoeni is delighted that he’ll be dancing with his wife, Gretchen Spreitzer, at a square dance Friday at the Washtenaw County Farm Council Grounds. Bob Schoeni participates in a November 2008 Family Field Day at Burns Park in Ann Arbor. The event, sponsored by…
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May 4, 2009
One-third of all children born in the United States are the result of unintended pregnancies and not only do these children receive less attention and warmth from their parents than children whose births were planned, so do their older siblings, a new study shows. The study, conducted by U-M sociologist Jennifer Barber and University of…
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May 4, 2009
A team of technical experts continues to work on determining why a new online teaching evaluation system failed April 20. Almost 40 percent of the possible responses had been received by the time the system went down, during the university’s second semester of using the online teaching questionnaire. After a successful first-semester launch of the…
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May 4, 2009
Provost Teresa Sullivan has announced the interim management team to lead the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA) beginning June 1 and until a new director is in place, pending approval by the Board of Regents. Kathryn Huss, the museum’s chief administrative officer; Raymond Silverman, director of the Museum Studies Program and professor of history of…
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May 4, 2009
Like the rest of Michigan and the United States, the Oakland County economy had a rough 2008 and is having an even worse 2009. But the outlook will get better, two U-M economists say. In their annual forecast of the Oakland County economy, George Fulton and Donald Grimes of the Institute for Research on Labor,…
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May 4, 2009
More people live behind bars in the United States than in any other country, but the American prison system punishes more than just inmates — it also takes a toll on the health of friends and loved ones left behind. In the first known study of its kind, U-M researchers found that people with a…
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May 4, 2009
A scholar whose research probes the connection between corporate and evangelical religious practices in America is the recipient of the second annual Emerging Scholars Prize. The award is given by the Institute for the Humanities. Bethany Moreton, professor of history and women’s studies at the University of Georgia, has been named the top emerging scholar…
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May 4, 2009
President Barack Obama has nominated Rebecca Blank, former dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, to be undersecretary for economic affairs in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Blank has been the Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution since July 2008. Before that, she was dean of the Ford School…
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May 4, 2009
President Obama has named Rosina Bierbaum, dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, to the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST). (Photo courtesy SNRE) PCAST consists of 20 of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers. They advise the president and vice president directly to help the administration formulate policy in…
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May 4, 2009
Six faculty members dedicated to developing cultural and ethnic diversity at U-M have received the 2009 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award from the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic and Affairs. Askew The recipients are Kelly Askew, LSA; Tabbye Chavous, School of Education and LSA; Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, LSA; Karin…
