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June 25, 2012
State will help fund building renovations on all three campuses
Related stories:Aid will cover total increase in costs for students with financial need >Tuition increase at UM-Dearborn is lowest since 2004-05 >Regents approve budget, tuition rates for UM-Flint >UMHHC will end fiscal year ahead of plan, more gains ahead >Athletics reports $130.3 million budget for 2013 fiscal year > State lawmakers have approved legislation that… -
June 25, 2012
U-M forecasters predict second-smallest Gulf ‘dead zone’
A dry spring in portions of the Midwest is expected to result in the second-smallest Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” on record in 2012, according to a U-M forecast. The U-M prediction calls for a 2012 Gulf of Mexico dead zone of about 1,200 square miles, an area the size of Rhode Island. If the… -
June 25, 2012
Active U winners released; more than 10,000 participants
The seventh year of Active U shows the success of the program with more than 10,000 participants logging more than 20 million minutes of physical activity. Active U pairs healthy living with striving for a healthy community. Teams of two or more U-M faculty, staff, graduate students and retirees signed up to get fit by… -
June 25, 2012
Accolades
Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Emmett Leith Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering, has been chosen to receive the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers James H. Mulligan Education Medal for contributions to undergraduate and graduate engineering education through… -
June 25, 2012
MHealthy Ergonomics now accepting nominations for individual awards
MHealthy is accepting nominations for its Ergonomics Hero Individual Awards, given to employees that have implemented ergonomic solutions in the workplace. Nominations are accepted year-round and reviewed monthly by members of the Ergonomics Awareness Team. Ergonomics is the science of fitting the workplace to the worker, often resulting in the promotion of safety, health, productivity… -
June 25, 2012
Obituary
Joyce (Johnson) Bonk Joyce (Johnson) Bonk, former assistant curator of books at the William L. Clements Library, died June 9 in Ann Arbor, in the care of the staff at Huron Woods — a memory support assisted living community at St. Joseph Mercy — and Arbor Hospice. She was born in Dovray, Minn., on March… -
June 25, 2012
Old school: U-M in History
On the trail of artifacts
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June 25, 2012
Researchers investigate senior citizen crash injuries
There’s something curiously morbid about crash test dummies. They have an unnerving combination of lifeless and life-like features. They even wear shoes in the sled lab at the U-M Transportation Research Institute — brown oxfords for the mid-sized male model on deck for a head-on collision at 30-mph. A mid-sized male crash test dummy awaits… -
June 25, 2012
Aid will cover total increase in costs for students with financial need
The Board of Regents approved a budget that will increase financial aid enough to cover the full rise in the cost of attendance for the typical Michigan resident student with financial need — and reduce the student’s loan burden. The budget was approved June 21 on a vote of 5-3.
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June 25, 2012
U-M to lead $151.7 million NASA hurricane prediction project
Improving hurricane and extreme-weather prediction is the goal of a new, $151.7 million NASA satellite project led by U-M, NASA has announced. The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) will make accurate measurements of ocean surface winds throughout the life cycle of tropical storms and hurricanes. It’s a constellation of small satellites that will be…
