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June 7, 2010
ITS Help Desk offers general, administrative computing support
In an effort to more seamlessly respond to IT-related inquiries, Information and Technology Services (ITS) announces the creation of the ITS Help Desk. The new help desk integrates 4-HELP, Administrative (MAIS) Help Desk, and Accounts Office — making additional computing support accessible via the phone number 734-764-4357 (4-HELP). “The creation of ITS brought together three… -
June 7, 2010
Video: Walking robot navigates bumpy ground
A robot named MABEL with a human-like gait can walk over rough terrain in electrical engineering professor Jessy Grizzle’s lab. Grizzle and his students Hae-Won Park and Koushil Sreenath posted a YouTube video of MABEL’s first steps over wooden planks, and within five days it was viewed more than 84,000 times. View the video at… -
June 7, 2010
Old school: U-M in history
Crisler Arena completed
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June 7, 2010
Empathy: College students don’t have as much as they used to
Today’s college students are not as empathetic as college students of the 1980s and ’90s, a U-M study shows. Hear it Research shows that today’s college students are less empathic than students were before 2000: www.ns.umich.edu/podcast/audio.php?id=1244 The study, presented in Boston at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, analyzes data on empathy… -
June 7, 2010
Michigan Stadium to go smoke-free in 2010 season
The Athletic Department will make Michigan Stadium a smoke-free zone when the 2010 football season opens against Connecticut Sept. 4.
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June 7, 2010
Triathlon skills help Web designer coordinate two-job schedule
After a 10-hour workday as applications programmer/analyst with Medical School Information Services, Vince Chmielewski puts in more time at his new startup business, VC Web Design. Photo courtesy Vince Chmielewski. That’s his schedule Monday through Thursday. Most Fridays through Sundays, he logs several more hours each day at the website design company. He credits some… -
June 7, 2010
U-M makes major commitment to ‘green’ buildings
The university has adopted LEED Silver certification as its standard for major new construction projects. The new policy builds upon an existing U-M commitment to exceed by 30 percent a widely recognized energy efficiency standard, giving the university one of the most rigorous construction standards among higher education institutions in the nation.
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June 7, 2010
Wash your hands, wash away your doubts
Washing your hands “wipes the slate clean,” removing doubts about recent choices. That’s the key finding of a U-M study conducted by psychologists Spike W. S. Lee and Norbert Schwarz that expands on past research by showing that hand-washing does more than remove the guilt of past misdeeds. “It’s not just that washing your hands… -
June 7, 2010
Shakespeare in the Arb celebrates 10 years
This month celebrates the 10th anniversary of Shakespeare in the Arb. The outdoor theatre production presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at 6:30 p.m. June 10-13, 17-20 and 24-27 in the Nichols Arboretum.
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June 7, 2010
Hospitals will open one year ahead of schedule
Related story: Mott Hospital earns top rankings from U.S. News & World Report The new C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital — the largest construction project in the state and one that will create at least 500 new jobs — are opening a year ahead of schedule, in the fall of 2011.…
