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October 28, 2002
Talking with friends helps keep the mind sharp, a U-M study suggests. “As the population ages, interest has been growing about how to maintain healthy brains and minds,” U-M psychologist Oscar Ybarra says. “Most advice for preserving and enhancing mental function emphasizes intellectual activities such as reading, doing crossword puzzles and learning how to use…
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October 28, 2002
More than 80,000 people are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant in the United States but many of their needs will never be met; 17 people die every day waiting for a transplant, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. Because of the tremendous unfilled need, a School of Public Health (SPH) faculty member…
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October 28, 2002
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicable Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health, recently awarded the Health System’s Kresge Hearing Research Institute (KHRI) with a five-year, $3.7 million research grant. The grant will help expand and promote new research related to hearing loss, bringing research findings to patients experiencing genetic or…
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October 28, 2002
In his lecture titled “Post-Bubble, Post-Scandals: Restoring the Credibility of American Business Leadership,” B. Joseph White encouraged scholars to participate in the reform process and raised the following research questions: Whatever happened to dividends? A 1978 study by Gene Fama and Ken French found that two-thirds of companies listed on the major exchanges paid dividends.…
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October 28, 2002
Especially in an era of terrorist and sniper attacks, the media continually grapple with what they should print and air, ABC News President David Westin said in a speech in the Michigan Union Ballroom. Westin (Photo by Wanda Monroe, University Library) “Are we in the media helping or hurting the cause of security, whether it’s…
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October 28, 2002
With the War on Terrorism and the turmoil in Iraq in the forefront of the world’s focus, the economic crisis in Argentina can get lost in the shuffle. Albright But now is the time to concentrate on Argentina and the rest of Latin America, Madeleine Albright, Distinguished Scholar at the Business School’s William Davidson Institute…
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October 28, 2002
Student Mudhillun MuQaribu gives a blood sample during the Minority Bone Marrow Donor Drive. The Oct. 23 event at the Michigan Union was designed to find compatible bone marrow donors for some of the 30,000 people diagnosed each year with leukemia and other life-threatening blood diseases. Steve Urbaniak of the Michigan Community Blood Center draws…
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October 28, 2002
Scaffolding surrounds Newberry Hall, home of the The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, as it undergoes roof renovations. The original roof is being replaced with the identical shape and color of slate. Newberry Hall was completed in 1891 by the Students’ Christian Association, which rented it to U-M for classes in 1920. In 1945, it became…
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October 28, 2002
The FRIENDS Meditation Garden at the University Hospital courtyard is dedicated during an Oct. 24 ceremony. The garden was funded in part by a grant from the FRIENDS of the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers. The architect on the project was Jim van Sweden, a U-M alumnus. (Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services)
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October 28, 2002
Historical artifacts on display at museums would seem to be well protected, enclosed in glass cases, away from heavy traffic and hands that like to touch. But staff for the University Exhibit Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Anthropology say time takes its toll on precious items, and last week they learned just…
