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October 6, 2008
Fourteen-time Olympic swimming gold medalist Michael Phelps, left, receives a standing ovation from a sold-out crowd before the U-M vs. Wisconsin football game at Michigan Stadium. Phelps is accompanied by other Michigan swimming figures including, from left, former men’s swimming coach Bob Bowman, Olympic gold medalist and former U-M swimmer Peter Vanderkaay, former men’s swimming…
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October 6, 2008
Irene Haddock gets ready to stack 10 boxes of cereal on pantry shelves at the Salvation Army in Ann Arbor. She was among more than two dozen Dental Scholars from the School of Dentistry who recently collected more than 60 bags of groceries for the organization. They also worked in the soup kitchen and stuffed…
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October 6, 2008
A U-M spin-off company that specializes in high-power batteries has been chosen as the state’s first Center of Energy Excellence in Batteries, state officials say. Sakti3, based in Ann Arbor and founded by Ann Marie Sastry, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Mechanical, Biomedical and Materials Science and Engineering, will receive a $3 million grant…
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October 6, 2008
The remains of a 30-foot-long predatory dinosaur discovered along the banks of Argentina’s Rio Colorado is helping to unravel how birds evolved their unusual breathing system. This flesh rendering of the predator Aerosteon shows a reconstruction of the lungs (red) and air sacs (other colors) as they might have been in life. (Illustration by Todd…
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October 6, 2008
Research expenditures at the University of reached $875.8 million in Fiscal Year 2008, an all-time high and a 6.4-percent increase over the previous year. As usual, the federal government provided most (69.8 percent) of the funds. While the federal commitment edged up 2.7 percent last year, industry sponsorships surged 11.1 percent, following a 14.9 percent…
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October 6, 2008
Twenty-seven faculty members will be recognized for their teaching, scholarship, service and creative activities Oct. 7 in Rackham Assembly Hall. Distinguished University Professorships recognize full or associate professors for exceptional scholarly and/or creative achievement, national and international reputation, and superior teaching skills. Created in 1947, each professorship bears a name determined by the appointive professor…
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September 29, 2008
Jeanie Mack-Powers says her work as a volunteer docent at the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA) compliments her job as a clinical nurse helping cancer patients. (Photo by Lin Jones, U-M Photo Services) “I do see sick people and some are dying. I go the museum and my cup gets filled up about life,” she…
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September 29, 2008
Police Beat is a monthly feature of the University Record. The next installment will be October 13.
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September 29, 2008
G. Robinson (Bob) Gregory, a School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) alumnus, longtime professor and natural resource economist, died Aug. 29, two days short of his 93rd birthday. He was born in Michigan and grew up hunting, fishing and iceboating in numerous small towns across the state — experiences that informed his revolutionary thinking…
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September 29, 2008
Award Katherine Spindler, professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical School, recently was awarded the Distinguished Citizen Award in the Field of Science by Alpha Gamma Delta Fraternity. This award is presented to women who are outstanding in their professions or in civic, organizational, cultural or charitable work.
