June 11, 2012
More online The U-M Health System has been recognized among 319 companies as one of the top places to work in the nation. Read the full story > The C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital is among the best children’s hospitals in the country in pediatric specialties and is the only hospital in Michigan ranked in all…
June 11, 2012
In the summer of 2007, LSA launched a pilot program with China’s Peking University to provide summer research opportunities for students at both universities in the chemical sciences. Over the years the program expanded to include Tsinghua University as well as the biological and life sciences. It has provided research opportunities for 70 students from…
June 11, 2012
Visiting Chinese education leaders recently mingled with U-M faculty and members of the Southeast Michigan Chinese community at an informal barbecue. Guests at the barbecue included Joseph Lam, director of the Confucius Institute at U-M and professor of musicology, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and Liming Fan, professor of economics and vice president of Shandong…
May 21, 2012
UM-Dearborn recently announced a transition in leadership of its College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) with Tony England joining the college as interim dean. England’s two-year appointment began May 1 and was approved by the Board of Regents on April 19. Outgoing dean Subrata Sengupta rejoined the CECS faculty. “Tony England is an innovative…
May 21, 2012
Medical students around the country are graduating this month, and preparing for the milestone that culminates four years of hard training — their first job as a doctor. But as students enter the workforce, many have negative views of their future day-to-day work lives as physicians, shown by a multi-school study led by the U-M…
May 21, 2012
William C. Parkinson William C. Parkinson, professor emeritus of physics, died March 19 at the age of 94. A native of Ontario, Canada, Parkinson earned his collegiate degrees at U-M, his Bachelor of Science in 1940, Master of Science in 1941, and a Ph.D. in 1948 as a student of Physics Professor H.R. Crane. He…
May 21, 2012
Watch a video about construction of new rock spawning reefs on the St. Clair River > The first of nine rock reefs is under construction in the St. Clair River delta northeast of Detroit. The goal of the project, which is led by Michigan Sea Grant, is to boost populations of lake sturgeon and other…
May 21, 2012
A hidden facet of a math problem that goes back to timeworn Sanskrit manuscripts has just been exposed by nanotechnology researchers at U-M and the University of Connecticut. It turns out we’ve been missing a version of the famous “packing problem,” and its new guise could have implications for cancer treatment, secure wireless networks, microelectronics…
