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September 27, 2010
LSI partnership accelerates progress of 4 projects
More online • Read about the projects in detail by downloading the full report > • Life Sciences Institute website > The Innovation Partnership at the Life Sciences Institute marked its first year with one project spinning off into a new company focusing on obesity and diabetes treatment, and the other three drug-discovery projects making… -
September 27, 2010
U-M determined to beat OSU in annual organ donation challenge
Every day, 19 people die while waiting for an organ transplant and another 138 people are added to the national waiting list — but U-M is trying to change those statistics. The U-M Health System is sponsoring a new effort, dubbed Wolverines for Life, to encourage organ, tissue, eye, blood and bone marrow donation by… -
September 27, 2010
U-M joins compact for open-access publishing
U-M has announced its participation in the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE). COPE is a consortium of universities that support open-access publishing by subsidizing publication fees for open-access journals. Many leading universities and research centers are members of the compact, including Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California… -
September 27, 2010
Administrative assistant is former open water swimming champion
If you don’t count the time she swam through a school of stinging jellyfish, former competitive swimmer Erica Rose has fully enjoyed her time as the Open Water World Champion. “It was the worst encounter I had. I was swimming from the island of Capri to the coast of Italy. I was stung all over… -
September 27, 2010
Great Lakes water quality is focus of new $5-million grant
How could climate change and our response to it affect the Great Lakes’ water quality? That’s the primary question a team of 27 researchers from across U-M and collaborators at other institutions will answer with a new $5-million grant from the National Science Foundation. The researchers will focus on extreme weather events caused by climate… -
September 27, 2010
Old school: U-M in History
Tea time
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September 27, 2010
Don’t miss: Firefox official warns of product placement taken too far
Product placements in movies and television shows are nothing new, but Aza Raskin, creative lead for Firefox and keynote speaker for the 2010 John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society, raises questions about the expansion of such placements to include records of past events. Raskin will present the talk, “Your Life Experiences, Brought to… -
September 27, 2010
Police Beat
Police Beat is a monthly feature of the University Record. The next publication will be Oct.18. -
September 27, 2010
3-D Lab to develop game for spinal cord injury patients
The U-M 3-D Lab will work with Medical School researchers to develop a gaming application for people with spinal cord injury (SCI). The project, whose principal investigator is Michelle Mead, assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, has been awarded a $600,000 three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Beginning Oct.… -
September 27, 2010
In challenging economic times, U-M helps launch 10 new startup companies
U-M helped launch 10 startups last year and licensed 97 innovative technologies to industry, while university researchers reported 290 new inventions. Recent U-M inventions and their creators will be highlighted at the annual Celebrate Invention reception, 3-6 p.m. Wednesday at the Michigan League Ballroom.
