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October 20, 2008
Watch A&D Associate Professor Joe Trumpey share his journey building a straw-bale house > Related story:Activities explore global solutions > Creative architectural design, ecological sustainability and a personal commitment to environmental stewardship all come together in Joe Trumpey’s bold endeavor to design and build a solar heated, water cooled straw-bale house in Grass Lake. School…
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October 20, 2008
Related story:Professor’s straw-bale home rethinks relationship to elements > As a way to broaden the international discussion on global warming and encourage a new way of thinking about humanity’s relationship to the natural environment, the University is bringing people “back to their senses,” and inspiring a public debate about the urgency to address pressing environmental…
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October 13, 2008
University Bus 3031, operated by Ken Bowman, is not filled with many pictures or decorations. Perhaps that is because Bus 3031 is all the decoration Bowman needs. Bowman, who has worked 14 years as a transit coach operator for Parking and Transportation Services, has 29 years experience in bus operations. Photo by Scott Soderberg, U-M…
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October 13, 2008
September 2008 crime map > Items missing from residence hall room A Markley Hall resident returned to her room Sept. 13 to find several items missing, police reports state. The woman and her roommate reported that they had left the hall around 9:40 a.m. and thought they had secured their room door. When they returned…
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October 13, 2008
Joseph Hawkins Jr. Joseph Hawkins Jr., professor emeritus at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute, died Oct. 6 in Ann Arbor. He was 94. He was a physiologist and morphologist, a psychoacoustician, a student of animal behavior, a biochemist and a historian of auditory science. His research appeared in publications spanning from 1939-2006. In 1963 Hawkins…
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October 13, 2008
Awards Brian Jacob, professor Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, will be presented the David N. Kershaw Award and Prize for his contributions to the field of public policy analysis and management. Jacob, the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, professor of economics and director of the Center for Local, State and Urban…
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October 13, 2008
The United Nation’s International Labor Organization (ILO) has released its report, “Evaluation Mission Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia.” “The assessment was a thorough, independent evaluation,” Greg Tewksbury, interim associate vice president for finance and University treasurer says of the report release Oct. 13. “Among the conclusions was recognition of The Coca-Cola Company’s efforts to prohibit…
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October 13, 2008
Reasons for the international financial crisis and potential solutions were the focus of an Oct. 10 faculty panel presentation, “What Happened? Why? What’s Next?” “The financial regulators’ job is to make sure banks engage in prudent lending,” said Margaret Levenstein, associate research scientist in the Institute for Social Research and one of six panelists who…
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October 13, 2008
The University received $5 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop the world’s leading resource of high-quality experimental data sets of drug-making compounds that will ultimately take computer-aided drug design to a new level. The resource will house the data needed to improve computer programs that can predict the effectiveness of potential…
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October 13, 2008
Through a newly automated system, Michigan faculty and staff can now show their support for the University with just a few, simple keystrokes. Launched last week, the feature enables employees to set up payroll deductions online for their gifts to the University, designate where at U-M they want their support to go and select the…
