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December 5, 2011
Volunteer work has been a family endeavor since Jonathan Larson, UM-Dearborn’s student organizations supervisor, was a child. “My family has been very good at giving back … we always did gift baskets for food drives or coat drives,” says Larson, a native of Manistique in the Upper Peninsula. After graduating from Northern Michigan University with…
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November 21, 2011
Related story: Forecast shows path to economic recovery is a marathon, not a sprint > The Michigan economy appears poised to continue its recovery, although full economic health is still well in the distance, U-M economists say. Michigan will see employment growth this year of 63,000 total net jobs just two years after losing…
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November 21, 2011
More online Read the full Open Doors report > U-M was ranked No. 8 nationally for the size of its international student body in 2010-11, according to a study showing foreign enrollments grew 5 percent nationwide to a record 723,277. The university had 5,595 foreign students, according to the Open Doors survey by the Institute…
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November 21, 2011
More online • Are You a Human > • Fusion Coolant Systems > • DeNovo Sciences > • innovate! at U-M > Three startups with ties to U-M have been honored in a statewide business plan contest, the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition. First prize overall and $500,000 went to DeNovo Sciences, which is developing an…
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November 21, 2011
Students at Detroit’s lowest-performing high schools will get extra help graduating through a grant to the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center (Detroit URC). The School of Public Health is a founding partner in the Detroit URC. The $200,000 Roadmaps to Health Community Grant aims to improve the long-term health of Detroit residents by increasing graduation…
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November 21, 2011
Improving health outcomes and quality of life for people living with type 2 diabetes are the goals of a project between a new research center at U-M and university, health and public officials in North Carolina. The Center for Geospatial Medicine, which recently moved from Duke University to the School of Natural Resources and Environment…
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November 21, 2011
Angels are everywhere today — on lapel pins, magnetic dashboard figures, keepsake ornaments and in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. But interest in angels is more than a contemporary fad. According to a U-M historian, angels stirred intense interest in the early years of Christianity as well. “Just as many people today think of pets as…
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November 21, 2011
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded a three-year, $900,000 grant to a School of Nursing-led multidisciplinary team that will develop methods to increase cancer screening by young breast cancer survivors and their high-risk female relatives. The project director is Maria Katapodi, assistant professor at the School of Nursing and a Robert…
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November 21, 2011
Tappan's essential observatory
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November 21, 2011
Photo by Austin Thomason, U-M Photo Services. Susan Douglas was shopping in Chicago with actress Barbara Billingsley, television’s June Cleaver, when a saleswoman in a department store recognized Douglas as the lady on that day’s episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” For someone who has made a living analyzing mass media, there may be no…
