July 14, 2008
Show your U-M spirit by joining members of the marching band and cheerleading squad as they gather at noon today (July 14) on the Diag in hopes of earning Ann Arbor the distinction of becoming “TitleTown USA.” ESPN will be there to interview alumnus and Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard. The city is among 20…
July 14, 2008
Watch a time-lapse video of the seven-hour process > Yost Arena Manager Craig Wotta, left, Marquise Salibury, Ashton Hudley and Aquantis Brown refresh lines and logos on the ice for the upcoming hockey season. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services)
July 14, 2008
Nobel Peace Prize winner and South African cleric Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be awarded the 18th U-M Wallenberg Medal Oct. 29 by President Mary Sue Coleman. The medal presentation will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Hill Auditorium, followed by Tutu’s delivery of the Wallenberg Lecture. The first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape…
July 14, 2008
The University will change the co-pay amounts paid by members of the U-M Prescription Drug Plan next year, the first such adjustment since 2003. The change brings co-pay reductions to those using generic medications, “tier one” drugs in the U-M plan, with a decrease in out-of-pocket expenses from the current $7 co-pay to $5, starting…
June 23, 2008
Those neon sea creatures are actually dying photoreceptors in the human retina. And that intense blue-green hot air balloon-looking thing, complete with gondola, is really a salamander sperm cell. (Photo by Scott Soderberg, U-M Photo Services) These images are among those collected through the nearly matchless BioArtography project, which celebrates microscopic tissue photography as art.…
June 23, 2008
Medical School plans renovations for leased property The Medical School received approval to renovate approximately 30,000 square feet leased at the KMS Building on South State Street in Ann Arbor. The $1.6 million project, funded by the Medical School, will improve the layout and efficiency of its Faculty Group Practice billing unit and is expected…
June 23, 2008
View 2008 crime map > Sexual assault reported near Rackham A 41-year-old Ann Arbor woman flagged down a Department of Public Safety (DPS) officer May 17 and reported she was assaulted in a car by an unknown man. The police officer had observed the woman exiting an older model, two-door white car on Huron Street…
June 23, 2008
The Record accepts obituaries from University departments, family members and funeral homes acting on behalf of the family. All obituaries must be for active or retired faculty and staff members.
June 23, 2008
Awards Dennis Assanis, the Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Professor of Engineering and professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2008 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Internal Combustion Engine Award. It recognizes eminent achievement or distinguished contribution over a substantial period of time. Dr. Matthias Kretzler has been…
