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December 6, 2010
WDI to offer leadership workshop for USAID in Pakistan
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the William Davidson Institute (WDI) a contract to carry out a management, team building and leadership workshop for its mission in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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December 6, 2010
Understanding how icebergs form could lead to better forecasts
In an effort to understand how fast sea level could rise as the climate warms, a U-M researcher has developed a new theory to describe how icebergs detach from ice sheets and glaciers. This process of “iceberg calving” isn’t well understood. While scientists believe it currently accounts for roughly half of the mass lost in… -
December 6, 2010
W-2 time again; electronic version available
2010 Form W-2 Wage and Tax Statements will be available in January by one of two delivery methods. An electronic version will be available on Jan. 7 that will provide employees with early access to information. On that day employees should receive an informational e-mail containing details on how to consent to receive the form… -
December 6, 2010
University Symphony Band to tour China in May 2011
Nearly a half-century ago the University Symphony Band, under William Revelli, mounted a tour to the Soviet Union — only the second symphony after the New York Philharmonic allowed behind the Iron Curtain. It was a people-to-people mission, sponsored by the U.S. State Department, aimed at winning hearts and minds during a time of especially… -
December 6, 2010
Photos of tiny blood vessels in the eye link air pollution to heart disease
By digitally photographing the tiny, hair-like blood vessels in the back of our eyes, researchers now can look directly at how small vessels like those that bring blood to the heart respond to air pollution. New digital photos of the retina revealed that otherwise healthy people exposed to high levels of air pollution had narrower… -
December 6, 2010
Choir, friendships motivate Global Initiatives coordinator
Last spring Jennifer Jones and the women of Voices in Harmony chorus traveled to Cleveland to participate in a regional Sweet Adeline’s competition. Dressed as newsboys from the turn of the century, they sang songs in the barbershop style of a cappella harmony. Facing competitors from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, the women won third… -
December 6, 2010
Study suggests that being too clean can make people sick
Young people who are overexposed to antibacterial soaps containing triclosan may suffer more allergies, and exposure to higher levels of Bisphenol A among adults may negatively influence the immune system, a new School of Public Health study suggests. Triclosan is a chemical compound widely used in products such as antibacterial soaps, toothpaste, pens, diaper bags… -
December 6, 2010
Scholarship & Creative Work
Study shows gender differences in sleep interruptions Working mothers are two-and-a-half times as likely as working fathers to interrupt their sleep to take care of others. That is the finding of a U-M study providing the first known nationally representative data documenting substantial gender differences in getting up at night, mainly with babies and small… -
December 6, 2010
Video project aims to improve music instruction
As director of the Piano Pedagogy Laboratory Program (PPLP), John Ellis oversees the training of graduate students who instruct youngsters from Ann Arbor in piano during the week at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance both through private lessons and group classes. Ellis, associate professor of music and chair of the Department of Piano,… -
December 6, 2010
Old school: U-M in History
New organ dedicated
