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May 19, 2003
A team of the University’s best and brightest fanned out across Michigan in late April, part of an annual effort to increase the number of outreach projects the University conducts while teaching participants more about the state U-M serves. The Michigan Road Scholars tour brings a cross section of faculty to key areas throughout the…
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May 19, 2003
U-M graduate student David Van Mater knew something strange was going on when he noticed stubble on the shaved skin of experimental mice in his laboratory. Instead of the tumors he originally had expected to see, the mice were growing hair. Van Mater had stumbled on the discovery that beta-catenin, a signaling protein involved in…
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May 19, 2003
An ounce of prevention may really be worth a pound of cure for children with asthma, a new U-M Health System (UMHS) study shows. Children who have prescriptions for one or more asthma drugs–which aim to prevent or calm asthma attacks–have fewer visits to the emergency room for asthma than those who haven’t been prescribed…
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May 19, 2003
The morning of May 14 in Washington, D.C., national health officials unveiled a new “road map” for finding and treating high blood pressure, and cutting the massive, deadly toll it takes each year on America’s health. Back in Ann Arbor, a family doctor was smiling. Dr. Lee Green is a family physician at the U-M…
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May 19, 2003
U-M cell biologist Daniel Klionsky has been named a Distinguished Teaching Scholar by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and awarded $305,000 over four years to improve how introductory biology is taught at Michigan. Klionsky is a charter faculty member of the Life Sciences Institute and a professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology and biological…
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May 19, 2003
Ashhar Ali from the International Academy in Bloomfield Hills scrambles to catch two eggs dropped from four stories above by Qasim Shakeel. The two used their team’s egg-catcher invention May 3 at the second annual U-M Physics Olympiad, a contest organized by the Physics Department. Students from high schools around the state bounced laser beams…
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May 19, 2003
The Michigan Universities Commercialization Initiative (MUCI), which includes U-M, received top honors for its contributions to the state’s economic vitality at the sixth annual Business Success Celebration in Lansing. The honor for “Exemplary Efforts in Commercializing Technology and Promoting Entrepreneurship” was one of 17 awards in eight areas of economic development excellence presented by the…
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May 19, 2003
With the debate underway regarding post-war control of Iraq, a University professor says the rebuilding efforts and political control should be handled by the United Nations, not the United States or another country. “The U.S. should keep a relatively low profile,” says J. David Singer, a political science professor who specializes in international conflict and…
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May 19, 2003
At every age, American males have poorer health and a higher risk of mortality than females, according to a University report published in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health. “Men have higher age-adjusted death rates than women for the 15 leading causes of death in the U.S., with the exception of…
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May 19, 2003
Mary Ann Bryant, Ruth Kallio, Diana Denney, Sheila Williams and Lorna Altstetter receive Workplace 2003 Staff Recognition awards from the Office of Human Resources & Affirmative Action. Bryant is the administrative manager of the Psychology Department, where she has carried out the reorganization of the department so that it is again a “great place to…
