July 28, 2008
If an influenza pandemic hits the United States, acute care hospitals are likely to be overwhelmed. Nursing homes then may be expected to assist with the patient overflow, but a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that many are not prepared for such a task. Of the more than 400 nursing…
July 28, 2008
Provost Theresa Sullivan has named the members of a Special Committee on Institutional Innovation in Collaborative Technologies for Learning to examine the options for sustained support of innovation in this arena. She has appointed David Mendez, associate professor of health management and policy at the School of Public Health, to chair the committee. As collaborative…
July 28, 2008
More than 75 percent of the bank Web sites surveyed in a study had at least one design flaw that could make customers vulnerable to cyber thieves after their money or even their identity. Atul Prakash, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and doctoral students Laura Falk and Kevin Borders…
July 28, 2008
Lisa Hass has accumulated so many stamps in her passport that she recently authored a “Top 10 International Travel Tips” article for mgoblue.com. Athletic trainer Lisa Hass, second from left, celebrates with gold medalists Kate McKenzie, Bernadette Teeley and Kate Johnson at the 2002 World Rowing Championships in Spain. (Photo courtesy Lisa Hass) This advice…
July 28, 2008
Related story:Institute shows universities how to start programs > Adina Bodenstein first heard of Intergroup Dialogue as a sociology student two years ago at the University of California, San Diego. As part of her studies she was required to do a social justice project and taking a dialogue class was one way she could accomplish…
July 14, 2008
As a boy, New Orleans-born Chris Smith tagged along with his jazz trombonist father to gigs in the Ann Arbor area. (Photo by Lin Jones, U-M Photo Services) “Some of my earliest memories are of being on stage with my dad. I knew from a very young age that playing jazz was something I was…
July 14, 2008
Renovations planned at LSI for electron microscopy A new suite will be created from unfinished space at the Life Sciences Institute (LSI) to support three new cryo-electron microscopes that will provide high-resolution specimen images free of the distortion traditional electron microscopy may cause. The $1.8 million project will be funded by LSI, the Medical School…
July 14, 2008
June 2008 crime map > y Infant’s mother arrested A 21-year-old mother of a 6-week-old infant was observed June 7 in C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital smothering the infant with a pillow for more than a minute. The woman was arrested and has been charged with attempted murder and first-degree child abuse. The infant was taken…
July 14, 2008
Ted Dielman Ted Dielman, professor emeritus of health behavior and health education and professor emeritus of medical education, died June 29 at home in Green Valley, Ariz. He was 68. Dielman was born Aug. 15, 1939, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of Frederick Charles and Hazel Farrell Dielman. He grew up in Canton, Kansas,…
July 14, 2008
Awards Dr. Margit Burmeister, research professor at the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, professor in the Department of Psychiatry and professor in the Department of Human Genetics has been selected by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia And Depression (NARSAD) to receive its prestigious Distinguished Investigator Award. NARSAD, the world’s leading charity dedicated to…
