September 2, 2008
AkkeNeel Talsma, an assistant professor of nursing business and health systems at the School of Nursing, is one of 15 winners of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s inaugural Nurse Faculty Scholar award. The three-year, $350,000 grant began Sept. 1 and will support Talsma’s study of operating-room nurses. She will investigate how staffing numbers, training levels…
September 2, 2008
Left, H. Luke Shaefer, left, from the School of Social Work, and Donna Lehman from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library chat at the annual New Faculty Orientation in the Michigan League, as scores of new faculty mingle at the annual event presented by The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT). The Aug.…
September 2, 2008
As U-M prepares for its universitywide reunion weekends, organizers are hoping the increased cost of travel won’t keep recent grads and other alumni from taking part in the celebrations. More than 500 alumni and guests attended the inaugural Recent Grad Reunion last year. Organizers hope more will show up for the second annual gathering Sept.…
September 2, 2008
Andrew Whitehead, top editor for Core News at BBC World Service Radio, will deliver the 2008 Graham Hovey Lecture, “An Honest Witness in Kashmir: A BBC correspondent prepares for Asia in Ann Arbor.” The talk is scheduled for 5 p.m. Sept. 9 at Wallace House, 620 Oxford Road. India and Pakistan’s nuclear rivalry frequently have…
September 2, 2008
U-M Athletic Department leaders are praising the work done in short order on Michigan Stadium that wrapped up in time for the new football season. Construction workers pose for a photo before raising the last steel beam during a topping out ceremony on the east side of Michigan Stadium. (Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services) The…
September 2, 2008
Greg Tewksbury has been appointed interim associate vice president for finance, pending approval by the Board of Regents. His appointment was effective Aug. 18. Tewksbury assumed the interim position after Peggy Norgren, the associate vice president for finance since 2004, died unexpectedly in early August. He will continue in this role until completion of a…
September 2, 2008
Anyone who ever has tried smoking probably remembers vividly that first cigarette. For some, it brought a wave of nausea or a nasty coughing fit. For others, the first puffs also came with a rush of pleasure. A new study links first experiences with smoking and the likelihood that a person currently is a smoker…
September 2, 2008
Women with depression may be much more likely than men to get relief from a commonly used, inexpensive antidepressant drug, a national study finds. But many members of both sexes may find that it helps ease their symptoms. The persistence of a gender difference in response to the drug — even after the researchers accounted…
September 2, 2008
Approximately 200 “amazing and very gentle spiders” have taken up residence in a lab in the basement of the Science Building on the U-M-Dearborn campus. They were collected in Taiwan by U-M-Dearborn biology Professor Anne Danielson-Francois and two students who joined her there earlier this summer on a monthlong research expedition. Anne Danielson-Francois, a biology…
September 2, 2008
Economist Joel Slemrod of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business will take part in a “Tax Policy at the Crossroads” panel discussion Sept. 4 during the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Slemrod, the Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Ross School and director of its Office…
