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April 9, 2012
Art therapist uses craft to ease cancer treatments
Margaret Nowak used to often meet with a chemotherapy patient who loved to paint using watercolors in the infusion room of the Comprehensive Cancer Center The patient had requested that Nowak, an art therapist, come sit with her before receiving treatment. “She told me that she was always so scared before getting her chemo, and… -
April 9, 2012
What my startup did last semester: TechArb spring showcase
In one of the largest entrepreneurial events of the year on U-M’s campus, more than 50 student-founded startups will pitch their ideas to potential investors and report on the their progress at the TechArb Spring Showcase.
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April 9, 2012
Gay students experiencing discrimination may be at risk for drinking problems
Gay, lesbian, and bisexual college students who experience subtle discrimination are at increased risk of having a problem with alcohol compared to heterosexual students, a new U-M study finds. The study also found that how students’ peers were treated matters as well. Compared to heterosexual students, sexual minority students who knew others who were subjected… -
April 9, 2012
M+Box accounts now available
M+Box, U-M’s enterprise version of Box, a commercial data storage solution, is now available to Ann Arbor faculty and staff. U-M is the first university officially to introduce the service, which is a result of an agreement between Box and Internet2, a consortium of leading U.S. research and educational organizations.
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April 9, 2012
Stand Up To Cancer and Prostate Cancer Foundation announce new ‘dream team’
Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), along with the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), SU2C’s scientific partner, announced the formation of a new Dream Team dedicated to prostate cancer research. Dr. Arul M. Chinnaiyan of the Comprehensive Cancer Center and Dr. Charles L. Sawyers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center… -
April 9, 2012
U-M to sponsor fifth annual e-waste recycling event
The Office of Campus Sustainability and the Ann Arbor Public Schools are sponsoring a free e-waste recycling event designed to help area residents, small businesses and non-profits dispose of electronics in an earth-friendly way.
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April 9, 2012
Cancer stem cell vaccine in development shows antitumor effect
Scientists from the Comprehensive Cancer Center may have discovered a new paradigm for immunotherapy against cancer by priming antibodies and T cells with cancer stem cells, according to a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. “This is a major breakthrough in immunotherapy research because we were able… -
April 9, 2012
U-M researcher involved in $10 million project to advance computer programming
Making computer programming faster, easier and more intuitive is the goal of a new $10 million National Science Foundation project that involves a U-M researcher and is based at the University of Pennsylvania.
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April 9, 2012
Don’t miss: ‘Afflictions’ films open Culture, Mind and Brain conference
Ethnographic filmmaker and anthropologist Robert Lemelson, who combines scholarship and cinema artistry in his film series “Afflictions,” will screen two of the films to open the annual conference of the Center for Culture, Mind and the Brain. The screening, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a Q-and-A session with… -
April 9, 2012
U-M Museum of Zoology receives shipment of rare seabirds for study
The U-M Museum of Zoology recently received the carcasses of 15 rare Hawaiian birds called Newell’s shearwaters. The specimens were processed at the museum, and tissue samples from the salvaged birds will be used to study foraging habits, genetic differentiation and former population size.
