April 23, 2012
More online • View a complete listing of RecycleMania standings throughout the competition > • View a full listing of buildings participating in Recycling Champions and their results > • Learn more about U-M recycling > Students, faculty and staff collected nearly 750,000 pounds of recyclables during the 2012 RecycleMania competition, Jan. 22-March 31. The…
April 23, 2012
The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its April 19 meeting. Renovations planned at the Law School The Board of Regents approved the $7 million Law School Renovation Phase II project that will renovate approximately 30,000 gross square feet of space within Hutchins Hall and the William W. Cook Legal Research…
April 23, 2012
The Medical School greatly will expand and improve its space and technology for training future physicians, with a $55 million project approved April 19 by the Board of Regents. The project, which will convert and renovate 137,000 square feet of space in the Taubman Health Sciences Library, will allow U-M to better meet the evolving…
April 23, 2012
Why do many people report knee problems and backaches? And why do many crave sweet and fatty foods? A new exhibit explores these and other questions about human health. Evolution & Health, presented through Jan. 13, 2013 at the Museum of Natural History, explores how the ways in which humans evolved has promoted survival, but…
April 23, 2012
Nominations now are being accepted for the fourth annual Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award. Co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost and University Human Resources, the award recognizes individual staff members and teams that have demonstrated extraordinary achievement in supporting diversity at the university. “Staff members contribute to virtually every aspect of creating a community that…
April 23, 2012
“Pachinko” is by Al Held, whose 1960s abstraction style is known variously as Color Field or Hard-Edge. Held collaborated with Shunzo Matsuda, who carved the woodblocks, and, Tadashi Toda, who printed the woodcut. The exhibit is part of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business Art Collection displayed throughout the Ross School building year round.…
April 23, 2012
More information More information on Spring Commencement > Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent and U-M alumnus, will address undergraduates in the annual Spring Commencement address at 10 a.m. Saturday in Michigan Stadium. At the traditional ceremony, the university’s undergraduates will be honored. Honorary degrees also will be presented to J. Ira Harris, alumnus…
April 23, 2012
Named Anthony Bloch, Alexander Ziwet Collegiate Professor of Mathematics and professor of mathematics, LSA, has been named a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics for 2012. Fellows are SIAM members who are recognized by their peers as distinguished for their contributions to applied mathematics and computational science. Bloch was cited for contributions…
April 23, 2012
Residence hall construction
April 23, 2012
To help with Spring Commencement on Saturday at Michigan Stadium, the University and Development Events office is seeking volunteers to assist in providing graduates and their families with a personal and memorable experience during one of their last moments at Michigan, organizers say. Volunteers are needed to help sort recycling and compost waste at U-M…
