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October 17, 2011
VOICES report celebrates progress, new initiatives
Bringing together top managers and staff to share technology and process innovations has been a key accomplishment, say Voices of the Staff organizers, upon the recent release of the VOICES 2010-11 annual report.
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October 17, 2011
U-M among top 20 higher ed institutions worldwide
U-M is listed as one of the top 20 institutions across the globe — ranked No. 18 — according to the Times Higher Education. The London-based higher education magazine worked with Thomson Reuters to produce “World University Rankings 2011-2012.” The publication developed its rankings on 13 performance indicators separated into five categories: teaching, research, citations,… -
October 17, 2011
LSI names Gestwicki as new director of Center for Chemical Genomics
The Life Sciences Institute (LSI) has named Jason Gestwicki as the new director of its Center for Chemical Genomics (CCG), a campuswide hub for high throughput screening of chemical libraries and associated technologies. Gestwicki, who also is associate professor in the Department of Pathology at the Medical School, is a pre-eminent researcher who uses a… -
October 17, 2011
In bubble-rafting snails, the eggs came first
It’s “Waterworld” snail style: Ocean-dwelling snails that spend most of their lives floating upside down, attached to rafts of mucus bubbles. Scientists have known about the snails’ peculiar lifestyle since the 1600s, but they’ve wondered how the rafting habit evolved. What, exactly, were the step-by-step adaptations along the way? Two female bubble-rafting violet snails, Janthina… -
October 17, 2011
Fuel economy of new vehicles still at low point
For the second straight month, the average fuel economy of all new vehicles sold in the United States remained the same, according to a researcher at the U-M Transportation Research Institute. The average fuel economy of vehicles purchased in September was 22.1 mpg, unchanged from August. According to Michael Sivak, research professor and head of… -
October 17, 2011
Old school: U-M in History
Law School graduate
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October 17, 2011
Ford School employee passionate about roller derby
Amy Fredell has made a career of helping others succeed as the recruitment services coordinator at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, but it’s her skill in the roller-skating rink that has gained her attention since she was a child. “My best friend in kindergarten and grade school started and said ‘come do… -
October 17, 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi to receive U-M’s Wallenberg Medal, deliver lecture
Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese human rights activist and Nobel Peace laureate, is the recipient of the 21st U-M Wallenberg Medal. In a rare public address overseas, Suu Kyi will give her videotaped Wallenberg Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 before an audience in Rackham Auditorium.
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October 17, 2011
Clearing the cosmic fog of the early universe: Massive stars may be responsible
The space between the galaxies wasn’t always transparent. In the earliest times, it was an opaque, dense fog. How it cleared is an important question in astronomy. New observational evidence from U-M shows how high energy light from massive stars could have been responsible. A three-color image of the dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 5253. Green… -
October 17, 2011
Henry Russel lecturer, awardees named for 2012
Rebecca Scott, considered one of the foremost Latin American historians in the country, has been selected as the Henry Russel Lecturer for 2012 — one of the university's highest honors for a senior member of its active faculty. Three junior faculty members — Lada Adamic, Aaron Pierce and Haoxing Xu — will receive the Henry Russel Award.
