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June 30, 2003
An athlete has an impression of his mouth made at the Dental School Clinic. (File photo by Jerry Mastey, School of Dentistry) Free, customized mouth guards will be made for athletes of all ages 9 a.m.-noon July 26 at the School of Dentistry’s annual mouth guard clinic. Dental and dental hygiene students will work with…
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June 30, 2003
The helliconia vellerigera, or “Lobster Claw,” at the Matthei Botanical Gardens. A print of the photo will be one of many included as auction items at the Gardens’ “A Summer Gardenscape Gala” July 26. (Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services) The Matthaei Botanical Gardens (MBG) will host its annual summer gala 6-10:30 p.m. July…
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June 30, 2003
The architects who designed the Life Sciences Institute (LSI) check progress on the building, which is scheduled to open in September. Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, principals of Venturi Scott Brown Associates, talk with Alan Saltiel, LSI director (left), June 25. The Philadelphia architects toured the LSI and Commons buildings. The 230,000-square-foot facility eventually…
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June 30, 2003
School of Information (SI) graduate students—including Sara Naab, above—set out June 7 for Miami in an old school bus, which then traveled by freighter to Haiti. The students are researching the role that information and community technologies can play in the Haitian economy. They took 6,000 books, 3,200 pounds of pinto beans, 92 computers and…
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June 30, 2003
There are many highly interconnected factors to consider when planning for the future of transportation and traffic flow, including public transit, alternative energy vehicles, land-use patterns, air and noise pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions, said panelists at a recent conference hosted by U-M. Dan Brown, associate professor at U-M. (Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo…
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June 30, 2003
Possible changes to South Campus would better meet the University’s athletic programmatic needs while keeping in mind the historic context and environmental concerns of the area, University Planner Sue Gott told the Board of Regents at a June 19 meeting. (Images by Plant Extension) A new Academic Success Center is planned between Yost Ice Arena…
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June 30, 2003
When the annual art fairs take to the streets of Ann Arbor in mid-July, a fourth fair will join the show. The Ann Arbor Street Art Fair will move from its historical location along South University and nearby blocks to a new location surrounding Ingalls Mall. A scene from last year’s art fairs. (Photo by…
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June 30, 2003
(Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) The words “concession stand” conjure images of hot dogs, popcorn and lemonade for most people. For Mary Stewart, a conference assistant for University Unions, it means sifting through applications, making numerous phone calls, and collaborating with plant operations to generate electricity and water at new locations. Stewart is…
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June 30, 2003
The treatment of all middle-aged women with identical bone-protection therapies risks viewing aging and menopause as interchangeable conditions. A new study by U-M examines the difference between aging and menopause as they relate to women’s bones. “What is interesting about this study is that we took age out of the equation,” principal investigator Jane Lukacs…
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June 30, 2003
Many creatures, including our fellow primates, the New World Monkeys, rely on highly specific scent molecules called pheromones to find a suitable mate. Even our humble mammal cousin, the mouse, was found to have 140 genes just for pheromone receptors when its genome was sequenced completely earlier this year. But humans are clueless when it…
