August 12, 2013
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
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 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
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
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
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
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…
July 22, 2013
President Mary Sue Coleman has appointed an advisory committee to assist with the search for Ruth Person’s successor as chancellor of UM-Flint. The search process will begin early this fall. The Chancellor’s Search Advisory Committee, will assist in the process of identifying and recruiting a new chancellor. The university also will engage an executive search…
July 22, 2013
Networks of spherical nanoparticles embedded in elastic materials may make the best stretchy conductors yet, engineering researchers at U-M have discovered. Flexible electronics have a wide variety of possibilities, from bendable displays and batteries to medical implants that move with the body. Polyurethane studded with gold nanoparticles can conduct electricity even when stretched to more…
