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March 19, 2012
eTextbook Initiative vendors to offer demonstrations
The U-M eTextbook Initiative will host demonstrations by four e-textbook vendors in the coming weeks to give students, faculty and staff an opportunity to preview and evaluate the various platforms. The feedback collected at these sessions will inform the initiative’s selection of an e-textbook platform for the campus, which will be implemented in select courses… -
March 19, 2012
Photo: Jessye Norman, the San Francisco Symphony at Hill
Soprano and U-M alumna Jessye Norman joins a roster of guest soloists performing with the San Francisco Symphony, in the symphony’s American Mavericks Festival. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursday, and 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Hill Auditorium. The festival closes with a chamber concert at 4 p.m. Sunday in Rackham Auditorium. The festival is… -
March 19, 2012
Author Soetoro-Ng, Obama’s half-sister, to speak on multicultural education
Maya Soetoro-Ng • When: 7 p.m. Thursday • Where: Michigan Union Rogel Ballroom Multicultural education is complex and should not be limited to teachings in the classroom, says scholar and author Maya Soetoro-Ng, President Barack Obama’s half-sister who will deliver a lecture at U-M on Thursday. “Given our globalized world and obvious interconnectedness (environmentally, economically… -
March 19, 2012
Don’t miss: Nobel Prize winner discusses science and engineering instruction
Carl Wieman, associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, presents the talk “A Scientific Approach To Science and Engineering Education” at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business Blau Auditorium. Wieman was the founding Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Science… -
March 19, 2012
Old school: U-M in History
It used to snow
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March 19, 2012
Washtenaw County recognizes U-M Golf Course for environmental stewardship
The U-M Golf Course has been named a Community Partners for Clean Streams Program (CPCS) member by Washtenaw County for its efforts to promote and maintain business practices that protect water quality. By completing a series of requirements related to water management, storm water runoff, fertilizer and pesticide usage and storage, and waste management, Washtenaw… -
March 19, 2012
Accolades
Award Laura Kasischke, professor of English language and literature, LSA, recently received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for her book “Space, in Chains.” Judges referred to the book as a formally inventive work that speaks to the horrors and delights of ordinary life in an utterly original way. -
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… -
March 19, 2012
Dow and U-M launch innovative program to develop sustainability leaders
Dow Chemical Co. and U-M will bring together 300 students from all areas of study to help solve some of the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges in a new and unprecedented fellowship program announced March 12.
