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February 20, 2012
Don’t miss: Rise of surveillance in America examined by author, journalist
Author and magazine journalist Shane Harris presents the talk “The New Cold War: Hackers, Drones, and Cyber Spies” at 7:30-9 p.m. Thursday at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library on North Campus. Harris Harris will discuss the threats and challenges that define America’s national security in the 21st century. He has spent the last decade… -
February 20, 2012
Laser innovator elected to NAE
The developer of an “Art to Part” 3-D metal printing process that lets manufacturers make parts straight from drawings has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
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February 20, 2012
Regents mandate external review of medical resident case
The Board of Regents has spelled out how it expects the university to respond to the case of a former medical resident in the U-M Health System facing child pornography charges. Regent S. Martin Taylor, who introduced a resolution at the start of the Feb. 16 meeting, called the case one that is “unacceptable to… -
February 20, 2012
Two U-M early-career scientists win 2012 Sloan research fellowships
Two U-M professors are among 126 researchers from across the United States and Canada selected as 2012 Alfred P. Sloan research fellows. According to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the fellowships are awarded annually to “early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders.” This… -
February 20, 2012
U-M architecture student builds a tent for the ultimate test: survival
Andrew McCarthy didn’t know how to sew five weeks ago. But that didn’t stop the U-M graduate student in architecture from stitching up his own tent for a thesis project. Now, McCarthy is planning to put the tent to the ultimate test. He’s going to sleep in it as he climbs Aconcagua — the highest… -
February 20, 2012
Warped space lens provides zoomed-in image of faraway galaxy
A natural zoom lens in space has enabled astronomers to build new high-resolution images of one of the brightest distant galaxies magnified through a phenomenon called “gravitational lensing.” “I was always fascinated by beautiful images of space, but what makes an image like this so much more exciting is that you can actually see physics… -
February 13, 2012
NHL Winter Classic coming to Big House
The Big House is expected to welcome the biggest hockey crowd ever when U-M hosts the 2013 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic on New Year’s Day.
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February 13, 2012
Don’t miss: Architect discusses city design in Taubman lecture
Jonathan Barnett, professor of practice in city and regional planning, and director of the Urban Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania, delivers the lecture “City Design: Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives” at 6 p.m. Friday. The lecture is presented in the Art and Architecture Building Auditorium, Room 2104. Barnett is an architect and… -
February 13, 2012
Sustainable lab program saving energy, resources
To help laboratory managers operate vital U-M facilities in the most efficient and sustainable manner, the Office of Campus Sustainability launched the Green Laboratory Operation for Sustainability program, which already has an impressive list of laboratories that have been certified under the program.
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February 13, 2012
Accolade
Elected Joel Blum, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and James Slavin, professor of space science and chair of the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, have been elected 2012 Fellows of the American Geophysical Union. The AGU is a not-for-profit, professional scientific organization with more than 60,000 members in…
