June 23, 2008
Hear Dr. Matthew Davis discusses safety concerns for tweens > Find out if your tween ready to stay at home alone > Whether it be for two hours or an entire day, millions of tweens — children ages 11-13 — will be left home alone this summer, despite their parents’ concerns that they may not…
June 23, 2008
The University received 29,794 applications from prospective freshmen for 2008, an 8.5-percent increase over last year and the highest number in University history. At the same time, applications from underrepresented minorities dropped slightly in what U-M officials predict is a temporary decline. As of June 5, 12,533 students were offered admission to the University’s Ann…
June 23, 2008
A new campus wrestling facility, shown in this artist rendering, will include a two-story indoor practice area with three regulation wrestling mats. The Board of Regents approved the $5.5 million project at its June 19 meeting. See Regents approve design for new wrestling facility > (Photo courtesy Jickling Powell Associates)
June 23, 2008
Related stories:U-M Hospitals and Health Centers end year in black >Athletics revenues support financial aid, capital improvements >Dearborn, Flint increases approved by board > A modest tuition increase and the largest investment in need-based financial aid in University history are highlights of a $1.41 billion 2008-09 General Fund budget approved June 19 by the Board…
June 9, 2008
The clean smell of fresh paint wafts from an open window at the International Center onto Madison Street west of State. From the windowsill, a WUOM talk program streams from Fred Wicker’s worn CD-radio-cassette player patched with masking tape. (Photo by Kevin Brown) Wicker uses a paint roller to soak up off-white paint from a…
June 9, 2008
Police Beat is a monthly feature of the University Record. The next publication date is June 23.
June 9, 2008
Walter Clark Jr. Walter Clark Jr., associate professor emeritus of English Language and Literature at LSA, died May 11 in Hancock, N. H., where he had built a house and retired in 1993. He was born Oct. 6, 1931, in Pittsfield, Mass., the son of Walter and Ruth O’Brien Clark. The family spent parts of…
June 9, 2008
Awards Dr. Anna Lok, professor of internal medicine, and Dr. Juanita Merchant, professor of internal medicine and of molecular and integrative physiology, were scheduled to be honored May 18 for their contributions to digestive disease science. They were to be recognized as 2008 Outstanding American Gastroenterological Association’s Women in Science through the endowment of the…
June 9, 2008
Researchers led by a team at the Michigan Center for Translational Pathology at the U-M Health System have identified traits of an aggressive type of prostate cancer that occurs in about 10 percent of men who have the disease. They hope the discovery could lead, possibly within the next few years, to a simple urine…
June 9, 2008
Hear Dr. Matthew Davis discusses safety concerns for tweens > Watch a video to decide if your tween is ready to stay at home alone > Whether it be for two hours or an entire day, millions of tweens — children ages 11-13 — will be left home alone this summer, despite their parents’ concerns…
