October 27, 2008
Facility to include MRI/OR, more private patient beds The U-M Health System is intensifying its commitment to the health of children and women in the state and across the nation — as well as its investment in the Michigan economy — to meet the high demand for patient care services. The Board of Regents at…
October 27, 2008
The Board of Regents approved schematic designs for construction that will expand instructional space at the top-ranked Law School for the first time since the school’s main classroom building opened in 1933. Schematic designs for the new four-story instructional and administrative Law School building complement the current architecture. (Photo courtesy Hartman-Cox Architects) The designs, approved…
October 27, 2008
As the upheaval on Wall Street continues, University leaders say U-M finances remain sound. That message first was offered last week in a memo to campus by the president and several other leaders, and was emphasized again Oct. 23 by Board of Regent’s Chair Katherine White, who said U-M’s “diversified investment strategy, its conservative debt…
October 27, 2008
After eight years, The Michigan Difference campaign will end at midnight Dec. 31. But even with more than two months left, its impact has already been felt in every corner of the U-M campus, campaign leaders say. The Michigan Difference has raised more than $2.9 billion in support of facilities, programs, professorships and student aid…
October 20, 2008
While open seas and sterile labs may seem like polar opposites, Colleen Flanagan calls both of them home. Flanagan, a tissue engineering research specialist who works on tissue scaffolding in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, finds time to sail in some of the greatest races of the continent. (Photo courtesy Colleen Flanagan) It was while…
October 20, 2008
Police Beat is a monthly feature of the University Record. The next installment will be November 17.
October 20, 2008
Awards David Blaauw, professor of computer science and engineering, and Todd Austin, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, both from the College of Engineering, recently received the 2008 Richard Newton Gigascale Systems Research Center Industrial Impact Award for development of Razor technology. The annual award given by the MARCO/DARPA Gigascale Silicon Research Center…
October 20, 2008
The University endowment grew to $7.6 billion at the end of fiscal year 2008 from $7.1 billion in fiscal year 2007, according to the annual Report on Investments presented by Katherine White, chair of the Finance, Audit and Investment Committee, at the Board of Regents meeting today (Oct. 23). The endowment, which supports core operating…
October 20, 2008
As the upheaval on Wall Street continues, University leaders say U-M finances remain sound. That message first was offered last week in a memo to campus by the president and several other leaders, and was emphasized again Oct. 23 by Board of Regent’s Chair Katherine White, who said U-M’s “diversified investment strategy, its conservative debt…
October 20, 2008
Author Jeremy Scahill discusses Blackwater in Iraq, Blackwater at Home: Global Violence, Privatizing War and the Threat to Democracy, at 5 p.m. Oct. 30 in the Michigan League Ballroom. The event is sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities and others. (Photo courtesy American Speakers Bureau)
