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October 13, 2008
Six U-M students split $9,200 in prizes during the summer term Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing and the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry contests. The awards are among the nation’s oldest contests for student writers, supported by a bequest from Avery Hopwood, a 1905 alumnus and successful Broadway playwright, and Jule Hopwood,…
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October 13, 2008
The University has been awarded about $17 million of a new contract from the National Institutes of Health to expand the Michigan portion of the National Children’s Study, designed to be the largest and longest study conducted of the health and development of more than 100,000 children across the nation. Along with an earlier grant,…
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October 13, 2008
A satellite about the size of a loaf of bread will be designed and built at U-M and deployed to study space weather, thanks to a new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Kiko Dontchev, left, a graduate space engineering student and program manager in M-Cubed, holds the shells of two CubeSats. The Radio…
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October 13, 2008
How do Americans decide how much to invest in the nation’s youth or seniors? (Photo courtesy Gary Freed) Prioritizing distribution of resources for children — a segment that is becoming a smaller proportion of the total population than the growing 65 and older group— is an increasingly important issue, says Gary Freed, the Percy and…
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October 13, 2008
Nobel Prize recipient Roger Kornberg delivers the Martha L. Ludwig Lecture in Structural Biology. Kornberg, a biochemist and professor of Structural Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 “for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription,” which explains the process by which genetic information…
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October 13, 2008
The disciplines medicine, physics, music and anthropology paired with a desire to change the world describe six students who are nominated for the prestigious Rhodes, Marshall and Mitchell scholarships. “We are extremely impressed with the accomplishments of these six students, and are pleased they have been considered for such prestigious scholarships,” says Lester Monts, senior…
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October 13, 2008
Think of it as the end of cars’ slacker days: No more sitting idle for hours in parking lots or garages racking up payments, but instead earning their keep by providing power to the electricity grid. Using a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, University scientists are exploring plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV)…
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October 13, 2008
University researchers have developed a new tool that uses natural “fingerprints” in coal to track down sources of mercury polluting the environment. The research is published in the current online issue of the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Mercury is a naturally occurring element, but some 2,000 tons of it enter the environment each year…
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October 13, 2008
When Kate Thirolf went to Can Tho, Vietnam, in July, she brought little knowledge of the language but a strong desire to learn from another culture and add joy to kids’ lives. The doctoral student in the School of Education traveled to Can Tho last summer as a Wallenberg International Travel Fellow. Through the Can…
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October 13, 2008
When Nobel Peace Prize winner and South African cleric Archbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the 18th U-M Wallenberg Medal by President Mary Sue Coleman, the honor will be celebrated with additional events including a film on forgiveness, a lecture by a human rights activist and an exhibit examining apartheid. The medal presentation will take place…
