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March 26, 2012
U-M partners with doctors in India to advance trauma care, research
The U-M Health System is teaming up with one of India’s top academic medical programs to collaborate on trauma care research and to foster exchanges of medical personnel and ideas. The alliance with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) marks the first such partnership between academic medical programs in the United States and… -
March 26, 2012
Study: Parsing the pill’s impact on women’s wages
Although women still lag behind men in pay, the gender wage gap has narrowed considerably since the 1960s. Now a new U-M study is the first to quantify the impact of the pill on women’s labor market advances. The study shows that roughly one-third of women’s wage gains through the 1990s are due to the… -
March 26, 2012
For youth sexting: Public supports education, not criminal charges
Sexting — sending sexually explicit, nude, or semi-nude photos by cell phone — has become a national concern, especially when it involves children and teens. A new poll shows that the vast majority of adults do not support legal consequences for teens who sext. Seventeen states already have enacted laws to address youth sexting and… -
March 26, 2012
Senate Assembly elects three to fill seats on SACUA
The Senate Assembly on March 19 elected faculty members from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, LSA and the School of Dentistry to three-year terms on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA). The faculty governance body elected: Masten. Oey. Holland. • Scott Masten, professor of business economics and public policy. • Sally… -
March 26, 2012
Graham Institute welcomes students as Sustainability Scholars
The Graham Sustainability Institute recently accepted 25 undergraduate students into its 11-credit Sustainability Scholars Program. The exclusive, interdisciplinary program allows participants to receive special access and funding for field-based experiences, participate in sustainability leadership skills building activities as a cohort, and earn a “Sustainability Scholars Certificate” from the Graham Institute upon completion. The new scholars,… -
March 26, 2012
U-M seeks Planet Blue Student Ambassadors
The Planet Blue Student Ambassador Program is seeking new recruits for the 2012-13 academic year. Now it its second year, this unique program trains and empowers undergraduate students who will be living in a residence hall or campus apartment to serve as environmental stewards and sustainability leaders on campus. Applications from rising sophomore, junior and… -
March 26, 2012
Weekend MBA capstone challenges soon-to-be-graduates
During their two years in the Part-time MBA Program at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, weekend format students have learned core business disciplines and examined complex problems through multiple lenses. But have they channeled their inner CEO? C-Level Thinking is a unique capstone course that asks MBAs to take all they’ve learned and… -
March 26, 2012
Dust tornados, icy mountain winds don’t stop U-M student and his tent
Disaster struck on the first day of Andrew McCarthy’s expedition to climb Aconcagua — the tallest mountain in the Western Hemisphere. The graduate student in architecture had just pitched the tent that he made himself when a 40-foot-tall dust tornado kicked up a rock and sent it flying into the dwelling, puncturing a fist-sized hole… -
March 19, 2012
Google first round conversion only the beginning
More than 113,000 faculty, staff and students now can access Google tools with their UMICH account to collaborate with peers, easily share and edit documents, and replace travel time with work time through video chats and Google hangouts. Laura Patterson, associate vice president and chief information officer, talked with The University Record about all the possibilities of Google in the first part of a series on the future of information technology at U-M.
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March 19, 2012
Markovits honored with German Order of Merit
Andrei Markovits, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies, received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from Consul General Onno Hueckmann on March 14. The award, given at a ceremony at the German Consulate General in Chicago, is…
