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March 7, 2011
Faculty to discuss water research opportunities
U-M faculty members involved in water research are invited to a Sustainable Waters Initiative Research Opportunities Meeting to learn about, and discuss, research needs and funding opportunities related to water. The meeting will take place from 4-6 p.m. March 18 in the Michigan League Hussey Room. “Freshwater Systems is one of three priority research themes… -
March 7, 2011
Faculty teams sought for ADVANCE STEP program
The U-M ADVANCE Program, with support from the Provost’s Office, is calling for proposals for the fourth annual Strategies Toward Excellent Practices in Departments workshop.
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March 7, 2011
Mating mites trapped in amber reveal sex role reversal
In the mating game, some female mites are mightier than their mates, new research at U-M and the Russian Academy of Sciences suggests. The evidence comes, in part, from 40 million-year-old mating mites preserved in Baltic amber. In a paper published March 1 in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, researchers Pavel Klimov and… -
March 7, 2011
Coleman commits to shared sacrifice, highlights U-M fiscal discipline
President Mary Sue Coleman told state legislators on March 2 that U-M is ready to answer the call for shared sacrifice and highlighted budget cuts that preserve the institution’s academic excellence as well as access to a U-M education.
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March 7, 2011
U-M develops software tool for pathologists
Dr. Ulysses Balis clicks a mouse to identify a helicopter in a satellite photo of Baghdad, Iraq. With another click, an algorithm that he and his team designed picks out three more choppers without highlighting any of the buildings, streets, trees or cars. Balis isn’t playing war games. The director of the Division of Pathology… -
March 7, 2011
Eccles to talk on gender’s role in career choice
Jacquelynne Eccles, the Wilbert McKeachie and Paul Pintrich University Professor of Psychology and Education, is an expert on gendered patterns of educational and occupational choices. She will deliver her Distinguished University Professor lecture, “Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood,” on March 14.
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March 7, 2011
Two chemists among last decade’s most influential researchers
Two of the most influential chemists of the last decade are U-M professors, according to a new independent analysis based on the number of citations researchers’ papers received. Nicholas Kotov and Charles Brooks are included on the Thomson Reuters Science Watch list “Top 100 Chemists, 2000-2010.” Kotov is a faculty member in the Department of… -
March 7, 2011
Growing ROTC programs prepare officers for military service
Interest in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program “is skyrocketing,” says Capt. Richard Vanden Heuvel, commander of the U-M-based Navy Officer Education Program. Currently there are about 311 ROTC cadets on campus representing three branches of the service: the Army, Navy and Air Force.
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March 7, 2011
Silk moth’s antenna inspires new nanotech tool
By mimicking the structure of the silk moth’s antenna, U-M researchers led the development of a better nanopore — a tiny tunnel-shaped tool that could advance understanding of a class of neurodegenerative diseases that includes Alzheimer’s. A paper on the work is newly published online in Nature Nanotechnology. This project is headed by Michael Mayer, an… -
March 7, 2011
U-M entrepreneurs meet Gov. Snyder, discuss state’s future
Five U-M students and graduates were among 18 invited to a lunch with Gov. Rick Snyder because of their commitment to making Michigan a vibrant place to work and for their dedication to innovation, entrepreneurship and community service.
