September 19, 2011
The opening of the glass-roofed Robert B. Aikens Commons left little doubt about where the social heart of the Law School now lies. Built on the site of a disused courtyard between Hutchins Hall, the stacks, and the Reading Room, the gathering space now links all three. Featuring a curved glass roof supported by tree-like…
September 19, 2011
A new “subconscious mode” for smartphones and other WiFi-enabled mobile devices could extend battery life by as much as 54 percent for users on the busiest networks. U-M computer science and engineering professor Kang Shin and doctoral student Xinyu Zhang will present their new power management approach Wednesday at the ACM International Conference on Mobile…
September 19, 2011
U-M chemist and biophysicist Hashim M. Al-Hashimi was named to Popular Science magazine’s annual “Brilliant 10” list of the nation’s top young scientists. Al-Hashimi, 37, was recognized Sept. 15 by Popular Science for his pioneering work recording “nano-movies” of RNA and DNA, providing the first glimpses into how these tiny molecules of life “jiggle and…
September 19, 2011
The latest C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health finds that few parents (10 percent) believe their own teens, ages 13 to 17 years old, have used alcohol in the last year and even fewer (5 percent) believe their own teens have used marijuana in the last year. Those levels are substantially below…
September 19, 2011
The Space Utilization Initiative officially is ending, but its legacy lives on as part of day-to-day campus operations. Launched in 2007, the Space Utilization Initiative was implemented as part of the university’s overall cost-containment efforts. It was designed to lead the university toward better utilization of existing General Fund space and to limit the need…
September 19, 2011
The Wege Foundation, based in Grand Rapids, pledged to fund a new graduate student fellowship and a professorship in the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) as part of its ongoing support of the school and U-M. Both gifts acknowledge the decades-long relationship between Peter M. Wege, the foundation’s founder, and Jonathan W. Bulkley,…
September 12, 2011
Steven Thomma, White House correspondent for the McClatchy Newspapers Washington Bureau, offers perspective on the changing ways the White House uses technology and media to tell its story in his talk “The White House Message Machine: How it Spins Faster Than Ever.” The event begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential…
September 12, 2011
More online Michigan College Advising Corps > In the new school year, the Michigan College Advising Corps will more than double the number of MCAC advisers working to increase college-going plans among low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented high school students around the state of Michigan. The Michigan Corps’s base of operations is U-M’s Center for Educational…
