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  1. 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…
  2. 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…
  3. 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…
  4. April 16, 2012

    Old school: U-M in History

    Campus flood

  5. 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…
  6. 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.

  7. April 16, 2012

    Photo: Alumni speaker series

    Students from the School of Public Health Department of Health Management and Policy listen to alumni Elliot Joseph, president and CEO of Hartford HealthCare in Connecticut, and Dana Sherwin, a New York-based health care consultant. The April 11 session was presented as part of the HMP Alum Speaker Series. During the series students heard from…
  8. April 16, 2012

    Ashton-Miller to oversee research policy and compliance

    Professor James A. Ashton-Miller has been named associate vice president for research — research policy and compliance, effective May 1, pending approval by the Board of Regents at its April 19 meeting.

  9. April 16, 2012

    Broadcaster, alumnus Wallace dies at age 93

    Radio and television journalist and U-M alumnus Mike Wallace died on April 7. He was 93 years old.

  10. April 16, 2012

    Broadcaster, alumnus Wallace dies at age 93

    Radio and television journalist and U-M alumnus Mike Wallace died on April 7. He was 93 years old. Wallace’s stature as a broadcast journalism icon was rooted in his over 40-year tenure with the CBS News program “60 Minutes.” Wallace, AB ’39, HLLD ’87, of New York City was part of the original “60 Minutes”…