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September 5, 2011
Recreational Sports marks Elbel Field improvements
Dedication ceremony The public is invited to participate in a dedication ceremony at 7 p.m. Sept. 9 at Elbel Field. As part of ongoing renovations to recreation facilities across campus, the Department of Recreational Sports recently completed a project to significantly upgrade Elbel Field. The pre-existing asphalt parking lot and marching band practice area has… -
September 5, 2011
ITS Exchange voicemail features explained
Information and Technology Services (ITS) upgraded ITS Exchange 2007 to Microsoft’s 2010 version during the summer. In connection with the upgrade, all ITS voicemail services transitioned to a single system, ITS Exchange, which retired the U-M voicemail service. Faculty and staff now have more flexibility and advanced features: Voicemail preview: A preview text of a… -
September 5, 2011
U-M receives grant for sustainable transportation research
U-M will receive a $250,000 grant from Alcoa Foundation to support the university’s Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility Research and Transformation (SMART) project. The grant will be used to develop and apply practical solutions to the challenges of sustainable transportation in the Detroit and Beijing regions. SMART is a cross-university initiative of the U-M Transportation Research… -
September 5, 2011
U-M launches collaboration to help Great Lakes cities adapt to changing climate
Faced with increasing risks of intense storms, heat stress, clean water availability and economic hardship, municipal leaders are seeking high-quality, location-specific analyses to help plan for climate change impacts. That is the focus of a new $1.2 million U-M research project called the Great Lakes Adaptation Assessment for Cities (GLAA-C). Led by the Graham Environmental… -
September 5, 2011
Mentor role comes naturally to hall director
Being a hall director suits Joe Colangelo, because mentoring the resident advisers (RAs) who make dorm life comfortable for roughly 1,100 West Quad students comes naturally to him. “I was an uncle when I was 8. I always had kids a little younger than me around, so I was always watching them,” he explains. Photo… -
September 5, 2011
Old school: U-M in History
Yearbook staff
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September 5, 2011
Research shows wide gap in immune responses of flu sufferers
Why do some folks who take every precaution still get the flu, while others never even get the sniffles? It comes down to a person’s immune system response to the flu virus, says Alfred Hero, professor at the College of Engineering. In one of the first known studies of its kind, Hero and colleagues from… -
September 5, 2011
Ten years later, how has Sept. 11 shaped America?
On the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, some U-M faculty experts say the lasting impact on American society ranges from modest to profound, depending on the segment of society affected.
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September 5, 2011
New U-M entrepreneurship program names co-directors
Aileen Huang-Saad of the College of Engineering (CoE) and Bill Lovejoy of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business have been named co-directors of U-M’s new master’s degree in entrepreneurship. The joint program, which will train students to turn ideas into inventions and inventions into successful businesses, begins in fall 2012, pending approval in October… -
September 5, 2011
Coleman: ‘Endless opportunities’ await new class
For the Class of 2015, the Internet always has existed. Cellphones are commonplace. Electric cars are an option. It’s a new world, and the incoming freshmen have “endless opportunities” that await them, President Mary Sue Coleman said at New Student Convocation.
