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February 4, 2008
Now that the first confirmed flu case has hit U-M, some students are wearing surgical masks on campus and in the dormitories starting this week, as the second year of the M-Flu study gets underway. Students from four dormitories on the Ann Arbor campus volunteered to participate in the study, which looks at the efficacy…
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February 4, 2008
Martha Pollack, professor and dean at the School of Information, discusses age longevity differences according to gender and the resulting assistive care implications during a talk on “Intelligent Assistive Technology: The Present and the Future” at the Biomedical Science Research Building Auditorium. Pollack discussed the increasing role of technology and electronics in assisting people with…
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February 4, 2008
Hagerty The Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President has named six professors as fellows in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation’s (CIC) Academic Leadership Program for the 2007-08 academic year: • Bonnie Hagerty, associate professor in the School of Nursing and interim director of the Division of Acute, Chronic,and Long-term Care • Marie McCarthy,…
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February 4, 2008
Is your spouse getting on your nerves? Find out why this could be a good thing > While the relationships people have with their children and best friends tend to become less negative as they age, those who are married are more likely to see their spouses as irritating and demanding. That’s according to a…
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February 4, 2008
The University has announced that Spring Commencement will not be held at Michigan Stadium, but it will take place on campus with the Diag and Elbel Field as two locations under consideration. West Bloomfield senior Mike Eber, above right in yellow T-shirt, leads a group of students in the U-M fight song after hearing Spring…
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February 4, 2008
Autism researchers at U-M, the University of California, Davis and the University of Washington have been awarded a $15.3 million grant to determine the impact of intervening with toddlers age 2 and younger as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Autism Centers of Excellence Networks. Autism signs Typical red flags in social communication…
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February 4, 2008
At a university the size of Michigan, it’s not easy to track who joins and leaves the community every day as it happens. Yet as more services and resources go online, that tracking becomes more and more important. People need online access to a variety of things quickly, and when their job at U-M is…
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February 4, 2008
U-M forward Louie Caporusso takes the first of two shots for a goal on University of Notre Dame goaltender Jordan Pearce during a varsity ice hockey game at Yost Arena. The image was captured by a net cam built by Photo Services photographer Scott Galvin, who used the remote-triggered cam to grab net-view photos in…
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February 4, 2008
What motivates women to become politically active? Abigail Stewart and her colleagues have been finding the answers. (Photo by Esther Eppele) “We wanted to look at how someone enters into political participation,” says Stewart, a professor of psychology and women’s studies and director of the ADVANCE Program, who will deliver the second Distinguished University Professor…
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February 4, 2008
Aerospace Engineering Chairman Wei Shyy shares his collection of bird photographs in a slideshow > Natural flyers like birds, bats and insects outperform man-made aircraft in aerobatics and efficiency. U-M engineers are studying these animals as a step toward designing flapping-wing planes with wingspans smaller than a deck of playing cards. A “Blackbird” jet flying…
