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October 3, 2011
Coleman to highlight innovation in talk
President Mary Sue Coleman will share her vision for the new academic year during an address at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, via live webstream at www.umich.edu/pres/leadership.
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October 3, 2011
U-M students, faculty share sustainable ideas
From living trash-free to building a straw house, U-M has a history of challenging students, faculty and staff to directly take on issues, and sustainability is an area in which they have excelled. Students and faculty from across many disciplines have personally have explored what it means to be sustainable. Here is a collection of… -
October 3, 2011
Schrecker to address challenges in higher education
Ellen Schrecker, a history professor at Yeshiva University, will give the 2011 U-M Senate's Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom. The lecture — “The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University” — is free and open to the public at 4 p.m. Oct. 13 in Honigman Auditorium at the Law School.
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October 3, 2011
Extreme space weather at Mercury blasts the planet’s poles
The solar wind sandblasts the surface of planet Mercury at its poles, according to new data from a U-M instrument on board NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft. The sodium and oxygen particles the blistering solar wind kicks up are the primary components of Mercury’s wispy atmosphere, or “exosphere,” the new findings assert. Through interacting with the solar… -
October 3, 2011
Faculty members honored for scholarship, service
Twenty-six faculty members are being recognized Thursday for their teaching, scholarship, service and creative activities.
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October 3, 2011
MHealthy grant program offers funds to solve ergonomic issues in the workplace
The MHealthy Ergonomics Awareness Team is accepting applications for its annual grant program. Departments or units in need of financial help to purchase equipment or redesign work processes to solve ergonomic issues can receive up to $5,000 to implement solutions that make the work environment safer. Qualifying projects address one or more ergonomic risk factors:… -
October 3, 2011
Presidential early career awards go to three faculty
Three U-M researchers have received the nation’s highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers, the White House announced Sept. 26.
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October 3, 2011
U-M offers screenings for National Depression Screening Day
More than 20 million people in the United States — approximately one in 15 — suffer from depression, according to the National Library of Medicine. Thursday is National Depression Screening Day and, in support, several university programs will offer free, in-person, one-on-one mental health screenings for depression. “We’re fortunate programs exist to help us recognize… -
October 3, 2011
Cheng receives prestigious 2011 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Wei Cheng, Ara G. Paul Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the College of Pharmacy, has received a 2011 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). With the award, Cheng, will receive $1.5 million in direct costs to support his research over the next five years.
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October 3, 2011
U-M Library Orphan Works Project undaunted by lawsuit
The U-M Library continues to operate its nascent Orphan Works Project “because we remain as certain as ever that our proposed uses of orphan works are lawful and important to the future of scholarship and the libraries that support it.” That’s the position of University Librarian and Dean of Libraries Paul Courant, who also says…
