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September 2, 2008
U-M ranks fourth among top national public universities and 26th among 260 national universities in U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” rankings released August 22. The Stephen M. Ross School of Business undergraduate program again ranks 3rd nationally, tied with U.C. Berkeley, and is among the top five schools in five specialties: management (1st),…
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September 2, 2008
Victor Wong, left, senior strategist for the Office of the Vice-Provost for Academic Information, accepts the MERLOT Institutional Stewardship Award, which recognizes efforts to promote Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching at an institutional level. The award was presented by MERLOT Executive Director Gerry Hanley at a recent conference. (Photo courtesy MERLOT)
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September 2, 2008
A new School of Education initiative will provide foreign language instruction to every third-grader in Ann Arbor Public Schools beginning the fall of 2009. Through the newly formed Ann Arbor Languages Partnership, U-M world language teacher education students fluent in Spanish will receive intensive preparation then teach the language to third-graders. The program will be…
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September 2, 2008
Banks have played a big role in the mortgage crisis, not only because they issued loans to suspect borrowers but because many originated and sold bad loans to other lenders, a business professor says. “The model of lending in which the originator of a loan sells it to various third parties, known as the originate-to-distribute…
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September 2, 2008
Sure, the U.S. economy is struggling, but the end to the “growth recession” may be in sight, U-M economists say. “The American economy has been getting pummeled by the one-two punch of soaring oil prices and the collapse of the housing bubble, but a stubbornly resilient economy has failed to produce the two quarters of…
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September 2, 2008
Two species of giraffe, several rhinos and five elephant relatives, along with multitudes of rodents, bush pigs, horses, antelope and apes, once inhabited what is now northern Pakistan. But when climate shifted dramatically there some eight million years ago, precipitating a major change in vegetation, most species became locally extinct rather than adapting to the…
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September 2, 2008
Hear ISR researcher Amy Canevello discusses how students can find a roommate they can live with > Anxious college freshmen can relax. No matter who will be sharing their dorm rooms, they have the power to make the relationship better, research from the Institute for Social Research suggests. “Roommate relationships can be really good or…
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September 2, 2008
Students prepare to move their luggage into the first residence hall on the U-M-Flint campus. Three hundred students moved into First Street Residence Hall Aug. 24. (Photo by Mel Serow, U-M-Flint) Students lugged TVs, stuffed suitcases and assorted room decorations to U-M last week as they moved into student housing. And 300 students at U-M-Flint…
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September 2, 2008
Dr. Kenneth May, an associate professor of dentistry in the Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, has been named director of the School of Dentistry‘s Office of Multicultural Affairs and Recruitment Initiatives, says Dean Peter Polverini. May, who has been serving as interim program director for the past year, will work with the Office of…
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September 2, 2008
The University offers an optional tuition refund plan for all students that will give them an 85-percent reimbursement for tuition and University room and board if they are unable to complete a term due to physical or psychological illness. In both cases, medical documentation and a doctor’s verification are required before a claim can be…
