October 3, 2011
Jill Vexler is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in curating museum exhibitions about world cultures. She will discuss the work she did curating the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery exhibit Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photographs of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman, in the program “Photographer as Witness: Proof Enough?” It is at 7-8:30 p.m. Oct.…
October 3, 2011
The School of Public Health (SPH) received a $4.2 million grant over five years to expand its minority undergraduate student recruitment and internship program. The money comes from the Centers for Disease Control “National Minority Undergraduate Student Program: A Public Health Workplace Experience to Increase Minority Student Interest in Public Health.” The grant will enable…
October 3, 2011
The Department of Theatre & Drama opens the 2011-12 season celebrating Tennessee Williams’ 100th birthday with a production of his play “Suddenly Last Summer,” and a four-day conference on his work. Called one of America’s most controversial and acclaimed dramatists, Williams explores the human capacity for violence in the play. It is presented at 7:30…
October 3, 2011
More online More information on the Oct. 6 Farmers’ Market >
After a successful Farmers’ Market several weeks ago at the Michigan Union, the market is back from 11am-3pm. this Thursday.
The idea for a campus Farmers’ Market sprouted from a suggestion made by Monica Sangal, chair of the Michigan Student Assembly Health Issues…
October 3, 2011
A new U-M study finds that the most convincing exercise message emphasizes immediate benefits that enhance daily quality of life. Health care, business and public health have presumed that promoting health and longevity benefits from exercise will motivate people to exercise. The new findings, however, indicate that these individuals exercised less than those who aimed…
October 3, 2011
U-M announced Sept. 27 that it is partnering with DTE Energy to install solar panels on North Campus. The project, through DTE Energy’s SolarCurrents program, will involve the installation of ground-based and pole-mounted solar panels, rated up to 600 kilowatts. These panels have a potential annual generating capacity of 750,000 kilowatt hours (kWH) of energy.…
October 3, 2011
Katherine Weider’s passion for music was apparent at a young age. “I started as a baby, singing myself to sleep, driving people crazy. My mother decided to enroll me in voice lessons and it became my thing,” says Weider who works as a creative arts producer with the School of Art & Design (A&D). Photo…
October 3, 2011
From left, Nina Levin, Anna Snoeyink and Emily Miller sort through items from Planet Blue bins to determine how much trash is mixed in with recyclable products. The “trash sort” was part of the EarthFest 2011 celebration Sept. 27 on the Diag. Photo by Scott Soderberg, U-M Photo Services.
October 3, 2011
Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News, presents “A View From Washington,” from 7-9 p.m. Thursday at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
October 3, 2011
John Hall (right) signs up at a booth promoting the use of tap water over that delivered in plastic bottles. Photo by Scott Soderberg, U-M Photo Services.
