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October 18, 2010
Old school: U-M in History
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October 18, 2010
Tradition, fencing inspire procurement specialist
Todd Coon remembers the excitement in the Pendleton Room as the new drapes were hung four years ago. These curtains were more than just 15-by-20-foot pieces of fabric to Coon and the staff; they were the culmination of time, money and teamwork invested by everyone present to rejuvenate the 92-year-old room at the Michigan Union.… -
October 18, 2010
Photo: ‘Southern Roots/New Grass’ Oct. 21 at University Hospital Main Lobby
The group Bill Bynum & Co. presents “Southern Roots/New Grass” at 12:10 p.m. Oct. 21 at the University Hospital Main Lobby. The group features, from left, Dave Feeney on dobro, bass player Chuck Anderson, fiddler Mary Seelhorst, and Bynum, guitarist, lead vocalist and a first-prize winner in the Metro Detroit Songwriting Showcase. Sponsored by Gifts… -
October 18, 2010
Life-saving researcher to receive Francis medal
Dr. Alfred Sommer, who conducted life-saving research on vitamin A, will receive the Thomas Francis Jr. Medal in Global Public Health during a ceremony Nov. 4 in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business Blau Auditorium.
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October 18, 2010
Study finds monarch butterflies use medicinal plants
Watch it See how monarch butterflies use medication to cure themselves and their offspring of disease > Monarch butterflies appear to use medicinal plants to treat their offspring for disease, research led by biologists at Emory University, in collaboration with U-M shows. Their findings were published online Oct. 6 in the journal Ecology Letters. “We… -
October 18, 2010
Don’t miss: Author, fashion columnist to present Shaw Lecture
Robin Givhan, Detroit native and fashion editor of The Washington Post who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her fashion columns, will discuss the convergence of fashion, power and politics in her lecture “The Washington Catwalk” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Helmut Stern Auditorium, U-M Museum of Art. Givhan received her Bachelor… -
October 18, 2010
50 years later, Kennedy’s inspiration continues to shape U-M community
U-M students, alumni, faculty and staff huddled close outside the Michigan Union in a cold rain well past 2:30 a.m. Oct. 14. And a crowd gathered eight hours later to reflect on how John F. Kennedy’s idea, articulated 50 years earlier, continues to shape the university and world.
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October 18, 2010
Volunteers from Japan to train with Turner Geriatric Clinic
Fifteen Univers volunteers will come to Ann Arbor from Oct. 24-29 for a volunteer training program offered by the Geriatrics Center’s Turner Geriatric Clinic. Univers Foundation and the Turner Geriatric Clinic have collaborated in training activities since 1990 and the foundation sponsored the visits of six U-M peer volunteers to Japan several years ago. Japan,… -
October 18, 2010
Photo: UMMA presents ‘Out of the Ordinary: Selections from the Bohlen Wood Art and Fusfeld Folk Art Collections’
Alain Mailland’s “Stone Eater,” 2000, is from the exhibit Out of the Ordinary: Selections from the Bohlen Wood Art and Fusfeld Folk Art Collections, through June 26 at the U-M Museum of Art. The exhibit presents a range of contemporary artworks fashioned from wood and includes works that explore traditional and nontraditional vessel forms as… -
October 18, 2010
Legal scholar: Faculty must police themselves to protect academic freedom
While universities and their faculty must diligently protect academic freedom, so too must they self-police those colleagues whose extreme actions ultimately could undermine that freedom, a University of Houston legal scholar said. Michael Olivas on Oct. 11 delivered the University Senate’s 20th annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom, speaking on “God, Grades and Sex: The Developing Law of the College Classroom.”
