April 9, 2012
Eight School of Public Health students recently returned from Kentucky, where they participated in tornado relief efforts. Their work – conducting a door-to-door community assessment – will inform ongoing relief efforts. The U-M team arrived in Kentucky on a Friday evening and worked through the weekend to perform a community assessment for public health emergency…
April 9, 2012
The Board of Regents voted 5-3 on April 2 to direct the university to file an amicus or “friend of the court” brief in favor of the plaintiffs in the case of Hammel et al. v. Speaker of the House of Representatives et al. At issue is whether a new law that prohibits university graduate…
April 9, 2012
Award Mary Rumman, clinical social worker at the Turner Geriatric Clinic, is the 2012 recipient of the 10th Annual Beverly Jean Howard Award for Excellence in Social Work. Rumman covers three busy primary care clinics with a diverse group of patients, and has led groups to improve the quality of life for patients, social workers…
April 9, 2012
When tropical marine cone snails sink their harpoon-like teeth into their prey, they inject paralyzing venoms made from a potent mix of more than 100 different neurotoxins. Biologists have known for more than a decade that the genes that provide the recipes for cone snail toxins are among the fastest-evolving genes in the animal kingdom.…
April 9, 2012
The U-M Library, in partnership with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and its Digital Library Federation (DLF) program, will help launch a new data curation fellowship program for recent doctoral scholars in the natural and social sciences. The aim of the CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellowship Program is to create a cadre of…
April 9, 2012
Hubert (Hu) English Hubert (Hu) English, emeritus professor of English, LSA, died suddenly Feb. 8 in a manner wholly in keeping with the civility of his life, family members say, while walking with his wife and their dog in a park. English was born July 2, 1925, in Gary, Ind. At 18, he entered national…
April 9, 2012
School of Art & Design students Payal Doshi, Cara Phelps and Stephanie O’Neil knit banners that were placed outside of Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library (below) as part of an art installation. Photos by Scott C. Soderberg, U-M Photo Services. Students installed 10,000 square-inches of colorful hand-knitted banners outside the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library in a…
April 9, 2012
The first published results from an early-stage clinical trial show that spinal cord stem cells can be delivered safely into the spines of patients with the condition commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, opening the door for further research on this innovative approach. In a paper published online ahead of print publication in the peer-reviewed…
April 9, 2012
Older adults who get infections of any kind — such as urinary, skin or respiratory tract infections — are nearly three times more likely to be hospitalized for a dangerous blood clot in their deep veins or lungs, U-M Health System research shows. The most common predictor of hospitalization for venous thromboembolism — a potentially…
