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February 2, 2009
Despite scientific consensus to the contrary, a few climate change skeptics don’t believe humans are causing global warming. They blame the sun’s cycles, or they base a divergent theory on a tiny piece of the planet’s temperature history. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) At an upcoming Distinguished University Professor Lecture, Joyce Penner will…
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February 2, 2009
It’s official. The final amount raised for The Michigan Difference, the most successful fundraising campaign in U-M history, is $3,200,733,103. The campaign, which was launched publicly in May 2004 and officially ended Dec. 31, exceeded its $2.5 billion goal by 28 percent. The final sum is believed to be the largest amount ever raised by…
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January 26, 2009
In the past few years ballroom dancer/instructor Jennifer Wade has seen the sport rise from obscurity with the success of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.” (Photo by Scott Soderberg, U-M Photo Services) The show, which pairs celebrities and professional dancers who compete with one another, has attracted millions of viewers on prime time television and…
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January 26, 2009
B The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its Jan. 22 meeting New basketball player development center planned A new player development center for the men’s and women’s intercollegiate basketball programs adjacent to Crisler Arena is planned. Jickling Lyman Powell Associates Inc. have been selected to design the 50,000-gross-square-foot facility to…
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January 26, 2009
Police Beat is a monthly feature. The next publication date is Feb. 16.
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January 26, 2009
Awards Professor Thomas Wenisch has been awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award for his research project Programming Interfaces and Hardware Designs for a Polymorphic Multicore Cache Architecture. The CAREER Program offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars…
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January 26, 2009
Related stories:Bond: Struggle doesn’t end with Obama’s election >Addressing oral health disparities crucial for healthy communities >Photo: Composing a dream > Photos: MLK Symposium > Martin Luther King Jr. was more than the leader of a “peculiar movement and a long past set of times,” civil rights historian and award-winning author Taylor Branch said during…
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January 26, 2009
Related stories:Bond: Struggle doesn’t end with Obama’s election >Branch: King’s legacy lives in future, not past >Addressing oral health disparities crucial for healthy communities >Photo: Composing a dream > Grammy award-nominated artist Janelle Monae performs at the MLK Symposium Student Concert at Michigan Theater. (Photo by Lin Jones, U-M Photo Services) Motivational speaker and author…
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January 26, 2009
U-M’s Kenneth Lieberthal, one of the world’s foremost experts on China, will deliver the Stephen M. Ross School of Business‘ 42nd annual William K. McInally Memorial Lecture. Lieberthal will speak on “U.S.-China Relations in the Obama Administration: Continuities and Changes” at 5 p.m. Jan. 27 at the Ross School’s Blau Auditorium. He is the William…
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January 26, 2009
The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange will present excerpts from its stage work “Small Dances About Big Ideas,” with commentary from choreographer Liz Lerman at 7 p.m. Feb. 11 at the Michigan League Ballroom. This performance piece, combining movement, spoken word and documentary sound, premiered in 2005 at Harvard Law School. It takes a challenging look…
