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August 12, 2013
Ross School appoints Stewart Thornhill executive director of Zell Lurie Institute
Stewart Thornhill has been appointed executive director of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business’ Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies and the Eugene Appelbaum Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, pending approval of the Board of Regents. In this role, which he will assume Sept. 1, Thornhill is charged with maintaining the… -
August 12, 2013
West Coast media executive to lead Center for Entrepreneurship
More online Learn more about the Center for Entrepreneurship. A California startup executive who says the Michigan entrepreneurial ecosystem is at a breakthrough point has signed on as the new executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the College of Engineering. Tom Frank, who has spent more than 25 years building top-tier companies in… -
August 12, 2013
Smart enough to know better: Intelligence is not a remedy for racism
Smart people are just as racist as their less intelligent peers — they’re just better at concealing their prejudice, according to a U-M study. “High-ability whites are less likely to report prejudiced attitudes and more likely to say they support racial integration in principle,” said Geoffrey Wodtke, a doctoral candidate in sociology. “But they are… -
August 12, 2013
Digest this: Cure for cancer may live in our intestines
Treating a cancerous tumor is like watering a houseplant with a fire hose — too much water kills the plant, just as too much chemotherapy and radiation kills the patient before it kills the tumor. However, if the patient’s gastrointestinal tract remains healthy and functioning, the patient’s chances of survival increase exponentially, said Jian-Guo Geng,… -
August 12, 2013
Political science professor breaks barriers as a contrarian
Being a self-proclaimed contrarian has caused Allan Stam to find himself in tight spots on occasion, but it also has helped develop his intellectual interests and studies. “My basic personal instinct is to say, ‘OK, this is what everyone believes but it can’t always be true. Say these people are wrong, then what would that… -
August 12, 2013
Ladies and gentlemen, stop your engines: Americans driving less
Miles driven by U.S. motorists in light-duty vehicles are down about 5 percent since its peak in 2006, a U-M researcher says. Following up his recent research that showed that the number of registered vehicles reached a maximum five years ago, Michael Sivak of the U-M Transportation Research Institute analyzed recent trends in distances driven… -
August 12, 2013
Old school: U-M in History
World War II era parade
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August 12, 2013
Accolades
Philbert Martin A. Philbert, professor of toxicology and dean of the School of Public Health, has been admitted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge, England. The designation is granted to those who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the chemical sciences. Philbert’s research focuses on the early… -
August 12, 2013
Last call for MCubed seed funding; an early success story
A few more research teams could receive $60,000 to jumpstart early-stage projects. All they have to do is ask for it. MCubed ends its final funding phase on Aug. 31 so each team has a full year to work on its project. The pilot phase of MCubed is slated to close in fall 2014.
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August 12, 2013
U-M researchers land $2M grant to grow algae for energy
Related story: Last call for MCubed seed funding; an early success story. A team of U-M researchers has been awarded a $2 million federal grant to identify and test naturally diverse groups of green algae that can be grown together to create a high-yield, environmentally sustainable and cost-effective system to produce next-generation biofuels. National Science…
