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April 30, 2012
Zell Lurie Institute leads Midwest’s foremost venture capital event
Led by the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium showcases innovation within the state and surrounding region by bringing together “Best in the Midwest” companies with leading venture capitalists, angel investors and institutional investors. This year’s symposium is May 15-16 at the Marriott Resort in Ypsilanti.
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April 30, 2012
Speakers encourage class of 2012 to take risks, embrace creativity
Amid blustery skies and temperatures that hovered in the low 40s, graduates at the Spring Commencement celebration Saturday began the next stages of their lives with warm words of encouragement from Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a U-M alumnus, CNN medical correspondent and neurosurgeon.
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April 30, 2012
Second U-M stem cell line now publicly available
U-M’s second human embryonic stem cell line just has been placed on the National Institutes of Health registry, making the cells available for federally funded research. It is the second of the stem cell lines derived at U-M to be placed on the registry.
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April 30, 2012
Advisory committee named for LSA dean search
Provost Phil Hanlon has named a search advisory committee for the dean of LSA.
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April 30, 2012
Project to examine how brain’s daily clock controls mood
A U-M faculty member will lead an international, $1 million project examining the links between bipolar disorder and abnormalities in the circadian, or daily, rhythms of a mammal’s internal clock.
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April 30, 2012
Michigan Road Scholars roll out on 13th annual tour
Nearly three dozen university faculty and senior staff have tapped their inner Jack Kerouac and hit the road for the 13th annual Michigan Road Scholars trek around Michigan. In their 2012 “seminar on wheels,” the scholars will learn about the communities, people, and priorities in seven locations in Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas.
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April 30, 2012
Staff nominations sought for DPS oversight committee
Staff nominations are being accepted for candidates to the Department of Public Safety (DPS) Oversight Committee. The DPS Oversight Committee consists of two staff (one union and one non-union), two students and two faculty members (one Senate and one non-Senate) nominated and elected by their peers. All are for two-year terms. The DPS Oversight Committee… -
April 30, 2012
Day in the Life photo project celebrates campus diversity
View a slideshow of the Day in the Life photography project > To get a striking photo of a sunrise over the Medical Center and Central Campus, Eric Bronson pressed up against a window on the top floor of the new C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. On previous shoots for Michigan Photography, Bronson said he’d grown… -
April 30, 2012
Supermileage Team aims to break fuel barriers
Can a car really get 3,300 miles to the gallon? The U-M Supermileage Team is on its way to proving it can. The new student team will compete in its first ever competition this summer, the SAE International Supermileage Challenge, in Marshall. The competition challenges student teams to design and construct a single-person, fuel-efficient vehicle… -
April 30, 2012
Assistant professor’s father, a Hungarian patriot, influences a career
Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography. The decision to study Hungary was easy for Krisztina Fehervary, assistant professor of anthropology, LSA. It was her father, Istvan, who helped connect Fehervary to her Hungarian roots. Istvan Fehervary had spent eight years in a communist prison for writing down the numbers of Soviet tanks during the Hungarian…
