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November 17, 2008
Developed more than 200 years ago and found in households around the world, chlorine bleach is among the most widely used disinfectants, yet scientists never have understood exactly how the familiar product kills bacteria. New research, however, reveals key details in the process by which bleach works its antimicrobial magic. In a study published in…
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November 17, 2008
The powerful black holes at the center of massive galaxies and galaxy clusters act as hearts to the systems, pumping energy out at regular intervals to regulate the growth of the black holes themselves, as well as star formation, according to new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This composite image shows M84, a massive…
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November 17, 2008
With less than one week until the Nov. 22 U-M vs. The Ohio State University football game, the Students for Organ Donation chapter is working with Gift of Life Michigan and the Transplant Center to tackle the Buckeyes in the third annual Wolverine-Buckeye Challenge for Life. Stories of U-M students, alumni and employees who have…
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November 17, 2008
For proper and uniform review of all faculty members who are on research scientist and research professor tracks, several changes in the process to evaluate their progress will be implemented Sept. 1, 2009. “We want to ensure equity,” said Stephen Forrest, vice president for research, in a Nov. 10 presentation before the Senate Assembly at…
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November 17, 2008
Building on work published earlier this year, U-M researchers have furthered their understanding of what goes awry at the cellular level in Type 2 diabetes. Their results, described in two papers published online Nov. 7 in the journal Biochemistry, reveal why a protein known as Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Protein (IAPP), or amylin, kills insulin-producing cells…
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November 17, 2008
The chairs and eminent researchers from 16 university and academic medical centers met Oct. 24 for a historic charter adoption ceremony at the Comprehensive Depression Center. The ceremony capped 18 months of work to establish a charter for the National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC), a 501(c) 3 organization patterned after the National Comprehensive Cancer…
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November 17, 2008
Learn more about noise-induced hearing loss > About 10 million people in the United States alone — from troops returning from war to students with music blasting through headphones — are suffering from impairing noise-induced hearing loss. The rising trend is something that researchers and physicians at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute are hoping to…
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November 17, 2008
President Mary Sue Coleman, right, and Bruce Bickner, chair of Campaign Steering Committee for Law and member of President’s Advisory Group, unfurl a banner during a site dedication for a new Law School academic building at the corner of State and Monroe streets. Calling the Law Quadrangle a “true architectural treasure,” Coleman said “few buildings…
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November 17, 2008
The University has been a leader in energy conservation and environmental stewardship for decades, long before “campus sustainability” became a buzzword. Web site highlights Those who visit the site will learn: • Earth Day was co-founded in 1970 by the late Morton Hilbert, who was a professor in the School of Public Health • In…
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November 17, 2008
First Amendment scholar and Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein will give the 18th Annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom. Sunstein, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, will discuss “My University.com; My Government.com: Is the Internet Really a Blessing for Democracy.” The lecture, set for 4 p.m.…
