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June 23, 2008
Report on the economic status of the faculty Working conditions and benefits are key factors in this year’s Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty report on the economic status of the faculty (and hence its quality). In both areas we recognize that the University faces unprecedented challenges over the next decade. The University…
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June 23, 2008
Related stories:General Fund budget includes $107 M for financial aid >U-M Hospitals and Health Centers end year in black >Athletics revenues support financial aid, capital improvements > The Board of Regents approved a 5.9-percent increase for U-M-Flint and a 6.5-percent increase for U-M-Dearborn for in-state, full-time undergraduate students. A typical student with 12 credit hours…
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June 23, 2008
Related stories:General Fund budget includes $107 M for financial aid >U-M Hospitals and Health Centers end year in black >Dearborn, Flint increases approved by board > The Department of Athletics detailed a FY 2009 budget at the June 19 Board of Regents meeting that will fund all U-M sports to the full NCAA scholarship limit…
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June 23, 2008
Related stories:General Fund budget includes $107 M for financial aid >Athletics revenues support financial aid, capital improvements >Dearborn, Flint increases approved by board > The U-M Hospitals and Health Centers (UMHHC) will finish fiscal year 2008 in the black for the 12th straight year, though a smaller-than-expected operating margin reflects the strains of a difficult…
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June 23, 2008
Desk duties can keep staff members sedentary longer than they might like. University Human Resources has implemented a unique solution for staff in the HR/Payroll Service Center who now can choose to walk while they work. Their new Walkstation is a combination of a quiet, slow-paced treadmill and adjustable work desk. With the addition of…
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June 23, 2008
See a slideshow of the Paul Taylor Summer Intensive > In the vocabulary of dance, a gesture is never quite what it seems to be. Rather, a gesture is a subtle sign that invariably leads to a movement, which becomes, ultimately, an emotional and aesthetic statement. Students make significant progress in a few days, learning…
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June 23, 2008
A low-power microchip developed at U-M uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less in active mode than comparable chips now on the market. The Phoenix Processor, which sets a low-power record, is intended for use in cutting-edge sensor-based devices such as medical implants, environment monitors or surveillance equipment. The chip…
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June 23, 2008
Watch LSI Director Alan Saltiel discusses the new Innovation Partnership > A list of candidate projects for Innovation Partnership funding > The Life Sciences Institute (LSI) is launching a program to shepherd promising biomedical discoveries from the lab bench to the marketplace. Innovation Partnership uses philanthropic gifts to bridge the critical funding gap — known…
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June 23, 2008
Maybe reading the instructions is overrated. New research by U-M professor Norbert Schwarz and colleague Hyunjin Song shows that instructions printed in a hard-to-read font may scare people from taking on the task. “People are more likely to engage in a given behavior the less effort it requires,” says Schwarz, a marketing professor at the…
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June 23, 2008
Like Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and millions of Americans, researcher Fiona Lee comes from a mixed cultural background. She is an Asian-American who was born in Europe, grew up in Hong Kong and settled in the United States. Like her cultural background, Lee’s research also crosses a mixture of disciplines: psychology, business and organizational…
