April 14, 2008
Oakland Community College (OCC) and the U-M-Flint School of Management have entered into a new partnership that will benefit OCC students seeking a bachelor’s degree in business. Officials from both schools signed a new articulation agreement April 2. It will ensure a smooth transition for students who complete courses for an Associate in Business Administration…
April 14, 2008
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Big Ten have notified the University that they do not intend to pursue allegations of academic wrongdoing raised in a recent four-part series in the Ann Arbor News. The newspaper series raised questions about the educational experience of student-athletes at the University, including assertions of academic fraud…
April 14, 2008
Detecting roadside bombs may become easier, thanks to chemical sensors developed at U-M. A team led by chemistry professor Theodore Goodson III has created materials that sniff out TNT and give off signals that can be remotely detected — from a moving Humvee, for example. Their work was recently described in the journal Nanotechnology and…
April 14, 2008
Related story:Blasting wafers, twisting wires, Lurie Nanocamp exposes kids to future > An “artificial eye” puts the components of a digital camera on a sphere the size of a human eye. It could lead to better, smaller cameras as well as visual prostheses. Derek Wu, a ninth-grader, pries his silicon wafer off the wet chemistry…
April 14, 2008
U-M hosts a vast array of lectures, debates, performances and events each year — if only a person could get to all of them. Now, there is a way to catch a special guest speaker or take in a compelling lecture from anywhere in the world. (Image by Alicia Vazquez, Michigan Marketing & Design) Michigan…
April 7, 2008
Jackie Simpson doesn’t hesitate to call herself an activist. “I consider myself an activist and an educator,” says Simpson, director of The Spectrum Center, formerly the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs. “I believe that both activists and educators are engaged in the transformation of hearts and minds. So in some way, for…
April 7, 2008
The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its March 20 meeting. Museum of Art addition and renovation project increased Regents approved build-out of shelled space in the design of the Alumni Memorial Hall Museum of Art addition and renovation project, along with addition of a loading dock and elevator, increasing the…
April 7, 2008
Police Beat is a monthly feature of the University Record. The next publication date is April 14.
April 7, 2008
Award Dr. Mathilde “Tilly” Peters, professor and director of international clinical research, Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences and Endodontics, School of Dentistry, recently was honored at the 37th annual meeting of the Academy of Operative Dentistry in Chicago with the Hollenback Memorial Prize for her leadership and achievements in the field of operative dentistry.
April 7, 2008
Photographer Peter Turnley will talk of the human realities of two wars with Iraq, the Gulf War in 1991 and the current invasion at 7 p.m. April 8 in East Quad Room 126. Turnley refused to participate in the pool and embedded system of press coverage of both wars, choosing to work independent of the…
