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May 24, 2010
Don’t miss : Tea ceremony celebrates Japanese culture, tradition
The public is invited to join a Japanese tea ceremony to be presented in the renovated and expanded U-M Museum of Art. It is scheduled for noon and 2:30 p.m. June 5. Kazu Ogoshi and Mitsuko Yoshida, two revered tea masters who have been practicing the Sekishu-style of tea for 65 years, will travel from… -
May 10, 2010
India’s electronic voting machines are vulnerable to attack
Electronic voting machines in India, the world’s largest democracy, are vulnerable to fraud, according to a collaborative study involving a U-M computer scientist. Even brief access to the paperless machines could allow criminals to alter election results, the seven-month investigation reveals. In a demonstration video available at IndiaEVM.org, the researchers show two attacks against… -
May 10, 2010
Flint senior secretary once drove a big rig
On the road to her job as senior secretary in the Department of Psychology at UM-Flint, Sharon Mittan worked as a long-distance truck driver and ran a restaurant and limousine service — all at the same time. Along the way she has developed some serious organization skills. Recently, she attended a conference that reinforced those… -
May 10, 2010
Oakland County: Poised for recovery, job gains in 2011
A year after enduring its worst labor market in history, the Oakland County economy will stem the tide of job losses this year before adding jobs in 2011, U-M economists say. In their annual forecast of the Oakland County economy, George Fulton and Don Grimes of the Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the… -
May 10, 2010
Old school: U-M in history
Former campus landmarks
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May 10, 2010
U-M, MSU to study state education reforms with $5.9 million federal grant
Researchers at U-M and Michigan State University — in collaboration with the Michigan Department of Education — will use a five-year, $5.9 million grant to assess two education reforms designed to promote college attendance and workplace success. The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy received the grant from the U.S. Department of Education Institute for… -
May 10, 2010
Michigan Meetings to explore consumption, cancer disparities
The first in what university officials expect will be an annual series of Michigan Meetings begins this week. It will offer an interdisciplinary exploration of the fundamental human drive to acquire, consume and retain important resources. “The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption: Mechanisms of Allocating Resources Across Disciplines” runs Wednesday through Saturday. A second forum, “The Economy and Cancer Health Disparities,” will follow on May 20-22 and will look at how the current economic crisis creates inequities in cancer care and ways to improve those disparities.
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May 10, 2010
Obituaries
Traianos Gagos Traianos Gagos, professor of papyrology and Greek in the Department of Classical Studies and archivist at Hatcher Library, died suddenly April 26. He was 49. Gagos came to U-M in 1987 with his doctorate from the University of Durham, England, as visiting assistant research scientist to proofread the papyrus texts that a team… -
May 10, 2010
Animated drawing pad wins U-M toy competition
An electronic doodle pad that animates your drawings is the winner of a toy design competition organized by the College of Engineering’s Center for Entrepreneurship. The Scribble grew out of a December focus group in which student designers asked third-graders what they wanted from Santa.
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May 10, 2010
Don’t miss: Graveyards, images of death explored in UM-Dearborn series
Five UM-Dearborn faculty members will lecture on “Graveyards, Gravestones and Images of Death” in a five-week series of talks opening at 7 p.m. Wednesday. All of the lectures will be presented in Room 1040 in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters Building on the UM-Dearborn campus, 4901 Evergreen Road. The lectures are free and…
