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May 12, 2008
Upcoming changes to the M-Pathways Student Administration and Human Resource Management systems that include improved navigation and a user-friendly design are part of a June 9 system upgrade that will impact all faculty members and students, as well as many staff. The Teaching Support section now will be called “Faculty Business” and includes a new…
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May 12, 2008
New psychology research suggests that the sex hormone estrogen may be for women what testosterone is for men: The fuel of power. Until recently, some researchers doubted whether women had a biologically anchored need for dominance. “Women have long been overlooked in biological research on dominance,” says psychology researcher Steven Stanton. “Using a male model,…
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May 12, 2008
President Mary Sue Coleman participates in a community issues forum convened by the Michigan Chronicle newspaper of Detroit, and moderated by Chronicle senior editor Bankole Thompson, left. The Challenges of Empowering Education: Beyond Affirmative Action forum, held April 30 at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, featured an extended discussion…
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May 12, 2008
The mouse is a stalwart stand-in for humans in medical research, thanks to genomes that are 85 percent identical. But identical genes may behave differently in mouse and man, a study by evolutionary biologists Ben-Yang Liao and Jianzhi Zhang reveals. Their results, which have implications for the use of mouse models in studying human disease,…
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May 12, 2008
Undergraduate students will be able to pursue bachelor’s degrees in Polish in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, starting in the fall of 2008. One of the few such programs of its kind in the United States, the new major requires two years of Polish language study to enter the program. Students must complete…
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May 12, 2008
The Knight-Wallace Fellows Program at U-M has named 12 American journalists for the academic year 2008-09. Additional international fellows will be designated in June. While on leave from regular duties, Knight-Wallace Fellows pursue custom-designed sabbatical studies and attend special, twice-weekly seminars at Wallace House, a gift from newsman Mike Wallace and his wife Mary. The…
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May 12, 2008
The University has launched an ambitious pilot project to make comprehensive pre-clinical health curricula available worldwide via the Internet. The project, made possible by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, addresses the education of health care providers in developing countries in Africa and elsewhere. It also enhances the access for health science…
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May 12, 2008
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected to its membership Conrad Kottak, the Julian H. Steward Collegiate Professor of Anthropology. Conrad Kottak, the Julian H. Steward Collegiate Professor of Anthropology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. (Photo courtesy Conrad Kottak) “I’m delighted,” Kottak says. “This is the highest honor you can…
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May 12, 2008
Eight doctoral students received Distinguished Dissertation Awards April 24 at a ceremony in the Rackham Assembly Hall. The honorees: seated, left to right, Catherine Fortin and Emily Greenman; standing, left to right, Xiaoyun Chen, Scott Tomlins, David Moehring, Rebecca Haeusler, Francis Cody and Hoyt Long. Awardees received a $1,000 honorarium in recognition of exceptional scholarly…
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May 12, 2008
Five faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), a prestigious society that recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions in scholarly and professional fields. The fellows — Elizabeth Anderson, L. Ross Chambers, Susan Gelman, John Jackson and Margaret Jane Radin — are among 212 newly chosen scholars, scientists,…
