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March 3, 2008
Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire, Wales, is best known through William Wordsworth’s ode “Lines, Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.” Yet the site was established as a tourist locale decades before William and Dorothy Wordsworth undertook a walking tour of the district in 1798. This depiction of Tintern Abbey is featured in the exhibit “Enchanting…
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March 3, 2008
Elderly memory loss, cognitive impairment less common A new nationally representative study shows a downward trend in the rate of “cognitive impairment” — the umbrella term for everything from significant memory loss to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease — among people aged 70 and older. The prevalence of cognitive impairment in this age group went down…
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March 3, 2008
Unlike forests, fisheries and other resources that can be renewed relatively rapidly through natural processes, mineral deposits form so slowly that they’re classified as nonrenewable. But just how nonrenewable are they, and is it possible to put a number on their nonrenewability? For one mineral — copper — researchers at U-M and Syracuse University have…
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March 3, 2008
e Frost flowers. Diamond dust. Hoarfrost. These poetically named ice crystal forms are part of the stark beauty of the Arctic. But they also play a role in its pollution, according to a new study by scientists at U-M, the Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory and the University of Alaska. Frost flowers, shown above…
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March 3, 2008
Related story:Coleman among women leaders to speak at Dubai gathering > Renee Pitter and a U-M classmate were several days into a HIV education session in Johannesburg, South Africa, when they got to the part of their program that emphasized faithfulness. That’s when a woman in their group put the lesson into sharp perspective. “She…
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March 3, 2008
In the first trip of its kind, a group of 30 graduate students from the School of Public Health spent spring break working with the China Centers for Disease Control in Tianjin, China, a city of 10 million just south of Beijing. The students were assigned to fieldwork in district hospitals and village clinics, participating…
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March 3, 2008
Johnny Carson used to reject any serious study of comedy, saying, “Analyzing it would just be a waste of time.” Syndicated cartoonist Jerry Craft, shown with his “Mama’s Boyz” characters, is slated to appear at a University comedy conference set for March 10. (Photo courtesy All Photos Knight-Wallace Fellows At Michigan) Charles Eisendrath — a…
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March 3, 2008
The National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) is calling for proposals from those interested in becoming faculty fellows, center fellows or organizers of events that incorporate innovative conversations about diversity. The NCID, established in May 2005, works to address the challenges and opportunities of diversity through innovative scholarship that engages the U-M campus, as well…
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March 3, 2008
A free one-day outreach program dedicated to introducing socially and economically disadvantaged women and men to post-secondary education will take place March 13 at U-M-Dearborn. “On the Move: College is an Option!” will be held from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Fairlane Center North Building, located off of Hubbard Drive. Beverly Alexander, manager…
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March 3, 2008
Cave men were the first farmers, and anthropology professor Kent Flannery will give insights into their ingenuity at his upcoming Henry Russel Lecture, titled “The Creation of Agriculture: So Easy a Caveman Could Do It.” “The first plant and animal domestication was carried out 10,000 years ago, in the Stone Age,” by people who were,…
