November 18, 2002
News Service For older adults, it really is better to give than to receive, a U-M study suggests. The study, to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science, finds that older people who are helpful to others reduce their risk of dying by nearly 60 percent compared to peers who provide neither practical…
November 18, 2002
Parker Palmer, whose 1998 book “The Courage to Teach” has been a bestseller in the academic community, said at a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) that most of American higher education came late to the kind of services CRLT has provided since the early 1960s,…
November 18, 2002
Positive relationships with U-M’s administration have helped the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA) conduct its business in 2002–03, but there are many issues that still need attention, the committee’s chair says. Dr. Charles F. Koopmann Jr., associate chair of the Otorhinolaryngology Department and chair of SACUA since May, gave the committee’s annual address…
November 18, 2002
U-M Washington, D.C., Office A National Academy of Sciences (NAS) study released recently says information technology (IT) is radically changing research universities and will have a dramatic effect on how students learn. Van Houweling, Duderstadt and Atkins. (Photo courtesy of the U-M Washington, D.C., office) The report, entitled “Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology and…
November 18, 2002
Targeted vaccination of people potentially exposed to smallpox during a bioterrorist episode, together with an appropriately low level of vaccination before an attack, provides the best protection against smallpox, according to an analysis by U-M Prof. Jim Koopman in the Nov. 15 issue of the journal Science. But questions remain because of the lack of…
November 11, 2002
The U.S. government should make reparations for its role in slavery, at the very least by issuing an apology to African-Americans, a Harvard University law professor said last week. Whether compensation to descendants of slavery is warranted ought to be studied by a commission, an idea that has been proposed by one elected official in…
November 11, 2002
The ADVANCE Steering Committee has awarded three departmental transformation grants for 2002–03. The grants will be used to facilitate efforts designed to significantly transform the environment for women faculty in science and engineering, and were awarded in response to 12 proposals submitted individually and jointly by 15 participating departments. The three funded proposals are from…
November 11, 2002
Two interdisciplinary projects focusing on the Great Lakes have been funded under the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) Great Lakes Initiative. The purpose of the OVPR Great Lakes Initiative is to stimulate research at the early stages of development in areas that are likely to generate external support as well as reinvigorate…
November 11, 2002
Opening up the waters in the Great Lakes to non-basin states may do less ecological damage than forcing these states to use smaller, out-of-basin water sources, Joseph L. Sax said at the second annual Peter M. Wege Lecture. At the Nov. 6 speech, Sax said there are two predominant concerns regarding diversion of Great Lakes…
