June 16, 2003
(Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services)
June 16, 2003
A recent scuttle regarding professional baseball player Sammy Sosa using a corked baseball bat is another example that heroes make mistakes, U-M professor Christopher Peterson says. “We don’t like to see heroes stumble,” says Peterson, professor of clinical psychology. “But we shouldn’t let the occasional mistake affect our judgment of everything a person has accomplished.”…
June 16, 2003
(Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services)
June 16, 2003
Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services Kevin Schmidt, a senior engineering technician, is one of hundreds of faculty, staff and students from throughout the College of Engineering who completed the largest Green Clean Day ever held on the U-M campus. In one day (May 30), offices, labs, classrooms and long-forgotten areas were emptied of…
June 16, 2003
Wall Street analysts often provide biased research in response to investment banking pressures, according to a new study by a Business School researcher. “Sell-side analysts have long faced allegations that pressures to generate investment banking business compromise the soundness of their investment research,” says Richard Sloan, professor of accounting and finance. “Our evidence supports these…
June 16, 2003
Seven years ago John Gyorki had a hankering for the Hungarian sausage he enjoyed growing up, but the ones he bought from the store were fatty and tasteless. His solution: create his own line of Hungarian sausages and spices. “I got online and checked out the health department, and discovered the industry allows sausages to…
June 16, 2003
People are more likely to lie about sex and money to a real person in a telephone survey than a computerized voice, U-M survey researchers found. And people are no more likely to hang up on a computerized voice than they are on the recorded voice of a real human interviewer, the study found. The…
June 16, 2003
(Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services) Family and friends of the late Carl Gerstacker gather to dedicate a College of Engineering (CoE) building in the alumnus’ name. The gift from the Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation will support interdisciplinary research that is critical to discovery in science and engineering today, says CoE Dean Stephen Director.…
June 16, 2003
A memo from Henry Baier, associate vice president for facilities and operations, says that reducing electrical usage by as little as 3 percent could save the University more than $1 million. A flier reminding people to “turn off the juice” was sent to deans, directors and department heads earlier this month. It says energy conservation…
June 16, 2003
Being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer is like receiving a death sentence—one that, for many patients, is carried out within weeks or months of their cancer’s discovery. Fewer than 20 percent of patients are diagnosed in time to qualify for the only known cure—an arduous operation—and only 3 percent of all patients live even five years.…
