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April 16, 2012
U-M professor serves as consultant to Disneynature movie ‘Chimpanzee’
More online • View a slideshow > • See the movie trailer > Most Fridays, U-M anthropologist John Mitani is in Ann Arbor lecturing to the 200 or so undergraduates signed up for Introduction to Biological Anthropology. But on April 13, Mitani and his wife Sally were in Orlando, walking down the red carpet at… -
April 16, 2012
Musical theatre chair guides students into show biz
Like many of his students, Brent Wagner fell in love with theatre music at a young age. “I really loved the combination of text and music in the telling of a story, because music speaks to our emotions and the words carry the meaning,” he says. ”The combination, I found, was very powerful.” Photo by… -
April 16, 2012
U-M police issue warning to secure belongings
Thefts of unattended belongings on the U-M campus significantly have increased in the first three months of 2012 compared with 2011. The Department of Public Safety reminds students, faculty and staff to secure their valuables at all times. “We’ve had a significant increase in larceny reports in 2012,” says Interim Police Chief Joe Piersante. “We… -
April 16, 2012
Rutgers coach to share personal experiences with Title IX
Title IX has made many strides in creating equal opportunities and scholarships for women, but more progress is needed as schools seek to comply with the law, says Vivian Stringer, women’s head basketball coach at Rutgers University. Title IX is the landmark legislation passed in 1972 that enabled women and girls to become high school… -
April 16, 2012
Graduating students make their marks locally, globally
More online For more information about Spring Commencement, go to http://www.umich.edu/~gradinfo/spring A Michigan engineer pays it forward Nicole Casal Moore News Service One Saturday morning as a fifth-grader, Christopher Boyd built a bridge out of popsicle sticks and decided engineering was cool. Now, more then a decade later, he will graduate this spring with a… -
April 16, 2012
Police Beat
March 2012 crime map > Student robbed in Arb, suspect in jail A 26-year-old Saginaw man has been charged in connection with a March 19 unarmed robbery in the Arboretum. A student had reported that she was punched in the face around 4:40 p.m. as she walked in the Arb and her cell phone and… -
April 16, 2012
Don’t miss: U-M Library celebrates HathiTrust milestone
To mark the major milestone of the HathiTrust Digital Library amassing its 10 millionth volume, the U-M Library will host a celebration at 4 p.m. Friday in the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery. Light refreshments will be served at the event. HathiTrust was founded in 2008 as a collaboration of the 13 universities of the Committee… -
April 16, 2012
Old school: U-M in History
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April 16, 2012
Accolades
Award Alexandra Minna Stern, the Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professor in the History of Medicine, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, history and American culture, and associate director of the Center for the History of Medicine, recently delivered the John P. McGovern Endowed Lecture in Family, Health and Human Values at the University of Houston, where she was… -
April 16, 2012
Three university faculty members awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for research
For their distinguished achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment, three U-M faculty members have been awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for their research.
