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April 7, 2008
Seven faculty members have been awarded 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships, a coveted national honor recognizing distinguished achievement in many fields. Allen Danziger Gloeckner Halperin Johnson Primus Varshney U-M’s total is the highest this year by any university in the United States or Canada. The 10 campuses comprising the University of California system had at least 18…
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April 7, 2008
Having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women, according to a U-M study of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families. (Photo by Getty) For men, the picture is very different: A wife saves men from about an hour of housework a week. The findings are part of a…
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April 7, 2008
U.S. companies that outsource business functions overseas may save money in labor costs but they also pay a price for unhappy customers, U-M researchers say. Firms increasingly are offshoring front-office functions, such as customer service call centers and back-office functions like information technology, to manage their operations and achieve strategic objectives, says M.S. Krishnan, professor…
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April 7, 2008
As part of the University’s multi-year Space Utilization Initiative, U-M is examining how space is used across campus and developing guidelines, resources and tools to support responsible use and management of campus facilities. Effective April 15, new office space guidelines will be available for General Fund units on the Ann Arbor campus. The effort was…
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April 7, 2008
The founding dean of the School of Information (SI) now is its first endowed professor. In March the Board of Regents named Daniel Atkins the Kellogg Professor in Community Information. The endowed professorship, a first for the school, was established by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek through a $2-million gift. Atkins is on…
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April 7, 2008
Michael Moore’s movie “Sicko” increased America’s awareness of the nation’s paradoxical health crisis. The United States spends more than any nation on health care and insurance but has poorer health than many developed countries and even some developing countries. While Moore and most politicians see universal health insurance as the answer, LSA Sociology Professor James…
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April 7, 2008
President Mary Sue Coleman last week applauded Toyota Motor Corp.’s decision to establish its new Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRI-NA) near the Ann Arbor campus, choosing a U-M engineering researcher as the center’s first director. “The University of Michigan community is pleased to welcome the new Toyota Research Institute to Washtenaw County,” Coleman…
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April 7, 2008
President Mary Sue Coleman has appointed a committee to assist and advise her in conducting a national search for a new executive vice president for medical affairs. Dr. Robert Kelch, who has served in the position since Sept. 15, 2003, will retire on Sept. 14, 2009. As chief executive officer of the U-M Health System…
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April 7, 2008
Students and faculty members work together on research in a slideshow > The next generation of researchers and scholars will present their findings April 16 at the Michigan League. Faith White, right, inputs data with Cara Balkofer, left, on a UROP project about mother-child interactions and eating behaviors. White says the research skills she developed…
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April 7, 2008
The Plant Operations grounds services department, with the support of the University Planner’s Office and Occupational Safety & Environmental Health (OSEH), plans to conduct two controlled burns of areas of North Campus in April. Targeted areas include the native and wildflower garden on the east side of the Bentley Library and the oak-hickory wood lot…
