December 8, 2008
View the digital Jon Cohen Aids Research Collection > In conjunction with World AIDS Day Dec. 1, the University launched a searchable, online trove of AIDS-related literature gathered by a prominent science writer. The materials digitized and organized by the School of Information and the University Library includes transcripts of government meetings, obscure documents from…
December 8, 2008
See the U-M team at work in Ghana > The University has received a $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to work with Ghanaian health experts and authorities to strengthen human resources for health in Ghana. The Center for Global Health (CGH), School of Public Health (SPH) and Medical School will…
December 8, 2008
U-M should enhance the international curriculum, create an Institute for Advanced International Studies or the functional equivalent and open a Universitywide facility for furthering collaborations in China, the President’s Task Force on China recommends in a new report. As the University engages in a major self-study for reaccreditation in 2010 focused on internationalization, President Mary…
December 8, 2008
The art of business and the business of art have come together in a new post-graduate degree. As a strategic and timely solution to the ongoing challenge of preparing students to thrive in the complex 21st-century job market, the dual graduate degree program joins a rigorous business curriculum with an immersion in the conceptualization, development…
December 8, 2008
Fifty international research teams are vying for funding in the first round of a University-based program to strengthen ties between U-M and Israeli life scientists. The Life Sciences Institute received 50 proposals for funding under the U-M/Israel Partnership for Scientific Research. That’s about five times more research proposals than LSI Director Alan Saltiel expected to…
December 8, 2008
When Law School Assistant Dean for Student Affairs David Baum urged faculty to participate in a new program on early textbook adoption, it was, in his words, “the right thing to do.” Baum, in consultation with Associate Dean Mark West, worked with the school’s faculty to encourage them to take advantage of a new tool…
December 8, 2008
An engineering professor’s make-your-own-microfluidic-device kit has been named one of The Scientist magazine’s top 10 innovations of 2008. A microfluidic device, also known as a “lab on a chip,” integrates multiple laboratory functions onto one chip just millimeters or centimeters in size. The devices could lead to instant home tests for illnesses, food contaminants and…
December 8, 2008
Michigan’s University Research Corridor and Congressman John Dingell were honored last week for leadership in reinventing the region’s economy. Detroit Renaissance and The Detroit News announced the winners of their inaugural Renaissance Awards Program during a Detroit Economic Club luncheon Dec. 2 at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit. “These honorees exemplify the collaborative…
December 8, 2008
First Amendment scholar and Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein delivers the 18th Annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom at the Law School. In his Dec. 4 lecture titled “My University.com, My Government.com: Is the Internet Really a Blessing for Democracy?” Sunstein spoke to a standing-room only audience about the critical relationship…
December 8, 2008
About 200 students and University leaders gather in the Diag for a candlelight vigil for victims of a three-day terror attack in Mumbai, India, that left more than 170 people dead. The University and Michigan Student Assembly sponsored the Dec. 2 vigil, which drew members of at least seven student organizations. (Photo by Paul Jaronski,…
