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September 8, 2008
Stacks of newspapers, piles of waste, weathered clothing and toys: this is the backdrop of the first scene in “My Mother’s Garden” — an award-winning film that documents a 61-year-old woman’s daily life as a hoarder. The documentary is filmed through the perspective of the woman’s daughter, director Cynthia Lester, who is trying to save…
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September 8, 2008
Group Theory: New Sculpture by Dan Price, assistant professor in the School of Art & Design and the Residential College, uses cellular building strategies to form expressions of harmony and rhythmic dissolution. An opening reception is presented from 5-7 p.m. Sept. 12. The exhibit, sponsored by A&D, is presented Sept. 12-Oct. 12 in the Residential…
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September 8, 2008
The Mark Morris Dance Group performs at 8 p.m. Sept. 19-20 at the Power Center for the Performing Arts. The Washington Post called Mark Morris “our Mozart of modern dance.” The Los Angeles Times calls him, “intensely musical, deceptively cerebral, insinuatingly sensual, fabulously funky.” The company of dancers is reinforced by Morris’s use of live…
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September 8, 2008
The theater company Complicite’s latest work, “A Disappearing Number,” will be presented at the Power Center for the Performing Arts. The University Musical Society production explores our compulsion to understand. It recently was awarded the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play in London. Performances are at 8 p.m. Sept. 11 and 12, 2…
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September 8, 2008
U-M alumna and pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Alexa Canady and a panel of health providers will speak during an Oct. 5 reception for the ongoing exhibit “Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons.” Above, an historical image of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital operating room is on display in the traveling exhibit “Opening Doors: Contemporary African…
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September 8, 2008
Young people will have the opportunity to get involved in the upcoming election through a multimedia project that gives participants a chance to let their voices be heard, says Edward Bagale, vice chancellor for government relations at U-M-Dearborn. The core of the project, called “MiVote,” is an interactive Web site at www.mivote.org that will “enable…
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September 8, 2008
U-M-Flint will receive a federal grant of $354,050 to encourage more students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter and complete health professions training programs. “This grant will help to ensure a larger and more competitive applicant pool for healthcare and related professions in the Flint area,” says Congressman Dale Kildee, D-Mich., who announced the grant. “With…
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September 8, 2008
After 20 years of construction, a machine that could either verify or nullify the prevailing theory of particle physics is about to begin its mission. A view of the ATLAS instrument, one of two main particle detectors on the Large Hadron Collider. A U-M physicist and students were involved in designing and building major components…
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September 8, 2008
Undergraduates have a new major on their list of choices, one highly relevant in this age: Informatics. Informatics is the study of information and the ways people and social systems use it. Experts in this field design information technology tools for scientific, business and cultural needs, and study how such tools are used. Informatics specialists,…
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September 8, 2008
Babies born to moms with depression more likely to have chaotic sleep patterns If there’s one thing that everyone knows about newborn babies, it’s that most don’t sleep through the night, and neither do their parents. But in fact, the first six months of life are crucial to developing the regular sleeping and waking patterns,…
