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July 9, 2012
Employees can win $500 in prizes by participating in healthy programs
MHealthy is known for awarding its participants the gift of health. But in November, it also will award six lucky employees prizes valued at up to $500 each for participating in its health and wellness programs.
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July 9, 2012
Don’t miss: U-M Detroit Center to co-host stage at Concert of Colors
In celebration of the 20th Annual Concert of Colors, the U-M Detroit Center and Michigan State University’s Detroit Center will co-host an Outdoor Stage of music and culture from 2-9 p.m. July 14-15 in Detroit’s Midtown area. The stage, behind the U-M Detroit Center, features 14 acts covering a multitude of music and performance genres.… -
July 9, 2012
International Institute receives $750,000 Mellon grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $750,000 grant to the International Institute for language instruction and other initiatives.
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July 9, 2012
Accolades
Korey Jackson, lecturer in English language and literature, and Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow at MPublishing, has received a 2012 Public Fellows award from the American Council of Learned Societies. As a fellow, Jackson will serve as program coordinator and analyst for Anvil Academic, a digital publisher for the humanities. Francis X. Blouin… -
July 9, 2012
U-M signs agreement with American Red Cross for emergency sheltering
The university has signed an agreement with the American Red Cross that provides a broad framework for utilizing campus facilities in the event of a disaster.
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July 9, 2012
Westbrooks to join U-M as associate university librarian for research
The U-M Library has announced that Elaine Westbrooks will serve as the university’s first associate university librarian for research, starting Aug. 13.
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June 25, 2012
Ann Arbor company wins innovation grant to aid U-M research
The Ann Arbor-based company PicoCal will receive a $40,000 Small Company Innovation Program (SCIP) grant to support research at U-M to improve the manufacturing process of nano-structured materials and nano devices.
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June 25, 2012
Many poor pregnant women with HIV go untreated for depression
It seems logical that programs to screen and manage depression in pregnant, HIV-positive Medicaid patients should already be in place, but they aren’t. It’s the kind of glaring oversight that Rajesh Balkrishnan, associate professor at the College of Pharmacy, said he finds all the time in his research on health disparities. Balkrishnan also has an… -
June 25, 2012
U-M has one of slowest rates of growth in cost nationwide
A new college affordability ranking shows U-M has one of the nation’s slowest rates of growth in costs among the nation’s four-year public universities.
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June 25, 2012
New method generates cardiac muscle patches from stem cells
A cutting-edge method developed at the U-M Center for Arrhythmia Research successfully uses stem cells to create heart cells capable of mimicking the heart’s crucial squeezing action. The cells displayed activity similar to most people’s resting heart rate. At 60 beats per minute, the rhythmic electrical impulse transmission of the engineered cells in the U-M…
