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October 31, 2011
The School of Information (SI) is heading a cooperative effort by four major universities to create better methods for data-sharing among scientists and researchers in the new and growing field of sustainability. The National Science Foundation has awarded a two-year, $2 million grant to SI, with $8 million anticipated over the course of the project.…
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October 31, 2011
More online • James Cutler > • CubeSats at Michigan > • M-Cubed > • RAX: When the M-Cubed satellite, built by U-M students, goes into orbit, it will become the first CubeSat to test a NASA instrument for major space missions. It was scheduled to launch Oct. 28. A CubeSat is cubic mini-satellite, about…
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October 31, 2011
After posting modest job gains last year, the six-county region of Genesee, Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb, Oakland and St. Clair will add more than 50,000 jobs this year through 2013, U-M economists say. In their second annual economic forecast for the Economic Growth Alliance, a partnership of six southeastern Michigan counties, George Fulton and Don Grimes…
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October 31, 2011
More online Listen to a podcast about Generation X > They’ve been stereotyped as a bunch of insecure, angst-ridden, underachievers. But most members of Generation X are leading active, balanced and happy lives, according to a long-term U-M survey. “They are not bowling alone,” says political scientist Jon Miller, author of The Generation X Report.…
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October 31, 2011
Honoring Ford
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October 31, 2011
Horses always have been an integral part of life for Julie Nelson, senior administrative specialist for Project Healthy Schools and MHealthy. “I’ve always had horses in my life in some way; I’ve either owned my own horse, or my friends had horses I could ride, ” says Nelson, who always has been intrigued by the…
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October 31, 2011
Police Beat is a monthly feature. The next publication will be Nov. 14.
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October 31, 2011
Victor Shenderovich, political satirist and journalist, will give his perspective on the bittersweet experience of the Russian media in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, in the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Noon Lecture, “On Again, Off Again: Freedom of Speech in Russia.” The talk is from noon-1:30 p.m. Wednesday…
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October 24, 2011
For the first time, astronomers have detected around a burgeoning solar system a sprawling cloud of water vapor that’s cold enough to form comets, which could eventually deliver oceans to dry planets. Water is an essential ingredient for life. Scientists have found thousands of Earth-oceans’ worth of it within the planet-forming disk surrounding the star…
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October 24, 2011
Doctors at affiliated institutions across Michigan and northern Ohio soon will be able to securely share patient information electronically, preventing medical errors and avoiding test duplication. A new agreement, adopted Oct. 17 between the U-M Health System and Great Lakes Health Information Exchange (GLHIE), will make it possible to securely exchange health information with UMHS…
