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February 22, 2010
Nisbett to address ways to increase intelligence
Nurture, culture and your education are each far more important to boosting intelligence than scientists previously thought, according to Richard Nisbett, the 2010 Henry Russel Lecturer. His talk begins at 4 p.m. March 9 at Rackham Amphitheatre.
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February 22, 2010
Facts about the university’s new IT Governance Structure
Related story:University reveals plan to transform information technology > Why was it created? U-M spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on information technology, but, until now, has not had a unified approach to prioritizing IT investments. A new IT Governance Structure being developed will help U-M maximize its investment in IT and allocate… -
February 15, 2010
New residential learning community a creative venture
A new living-learning community coming to North Campus this fall is unique among collegiate residential communities in this country. Living Arts, to be housed in Bursley Hall, unites students in the arts, engineering and other fields with programming focused on the development of students’ creative capacity.
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February 15, 2010
U-M faculty work life study now being conducted
Faculty workload and other work life issues continue to be a concern on this campus as on many campuses across the country. To measure progress made at U-M on these issues, a new survey of tenured, tenure-track and contingent U-M faculty is currently in the field. The Faculty Work Life Study, sent in January to a sample of faculty on the Ann Arbor campus, asks questions about faculty activities, attitudes and perceptions of the work environment.
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February 15, 2010
Web site offers authors a way to publicize new work
U-M faculty and staff who would like to publicize books they have written can do so through Books in Print, a new Web site hosted by the Office of the Vice President for Communications. The site gives university-affiliated authors the opportunity to directly enter and organize information about their books. It can be found at… -
February 15, 2010
Earth Day celebration call for events
Forty years ago U-M held an Environmental Teach-In that drew 15,000 participants including such notables as Gordon Lightfoot, Barry Commoner, Edmund Muskie and Ralph Nader. The event, which occurred in March 1970, helped focus national attention to the first Earth Day that occurred a month later, April 22, 1970. This year the university will mark… -
February 15, 2010
Old school: U-M in history
Campus hangout: Cool limeaids make warm memories
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February 15, 2010
Study underscores high-impact engineering research at U-M
More information online > U-M ranked fifth in a new study that examined how often research institutions’ academic papers in the field of engineering were cited during the past decade. The analysis was conducted by Science Watch, a Thomson Reuters-sponsored effort to track trends in scientific research. “The number of citations is a direct measurement… -
February 15, 2010
Police Beat
January 2010 crime map > No new developments in assault in structure University police continue to investigate a Jan. 26 assault in the Church Street parking structure. A staff person told the police the next day that as she was walking to her car around 5 p.m., an unknown man approached her as she entered… -
February 15, 2010
Women on board: Does forced diversity hurt firm performance?
Hear how public companies in Norway have been negatively affected by a recent law requiring corporate boards to have female membership of at least 40 percent — but not because of gender > New SEC rules will require public firms to disclose what role, if any, diversity plays in appointing members to their corporate boards,…
