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April 29, 2013
Angell Hall computing center to close for renovations
The Angell Hall computing site will be closed May 1-Sept. 3 for its first significant upgrade since opening in 1988. The $4.4 million renovation project will expand the computing site, provide new furniture, improve accessibility, refurbish computer classrooms and install a new raised flooring system.
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April 29, 2013
Enriching Scholarship to promote effective use of technology
More online • Session registration continues throughout the conference. More information and registration. • Download one of the free TTC mobile apps for iOS or Android. • Follow Enriching Scholarship on Twitter @UMTTC. Registration has begun for Enriching Scholarship 2013, a week of free workshops, discussions and seminars for instructors, faculty and staff. Sessions are… -
April 29, 2013
2013 OVPR staff recognition award recipients announced
The Office of the Vice President for Research will honor three U-M staff members for outstanding research service. Donna Mulkey will receive the OVPR Exceptional Service Award, and Linda Chadwick and Catherine Seay-Ostrowski will each receive a Distinguished Research Administrator Award. “With a budget of $1.27 billion, U-M’s research operation is one of the largest… -
April 29, 2013
Political scientist Robert Axelrod wins prestigious Johan Skytte Prize
Robert Axelrod, professor of political science and public policy, is the winner of the prestigious 2013 Johan Skytte Prize in political science, awarded for “profoundly having changed our presumptions about the preconditions for human cooperation.” Axelrod, who also is the Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Professor for the Study of Human Understanding, is… -
April 29, 2013
Implementation phase underway for Shared Services
More online • Get the latest news about Shared Services. • Email questions to [email protected]. The first calendar quarter of the implementation phase of the universitywide Shared Services initiative concluded at the end of March. Shared Services will shift select Finance and Human Resources transaction-processing activities from different units across the university into one operation… -
April 29, 2013
Volunteers share the joy at commencement
To help make Spring Commencement a memorable one for 2013 graduates and their families, volunteers are sought to pass out programs, answer questions and help in other ways, mostly Saturday morning. The Office of University and Development Events is organizing volunteers, who receive a T-shirt to wear to the ceremony along with a concession voucher… -
April 29, 2013
Caring for animals helps breed responsibility for SSW staff member
Living on a small farm in Milan with animals always around, Dona Kennedy finds it hard to imagine a life without them. “I honestly don’t know how I’ll survive the day that I can’t go and clean a horse stall. I’m that involved in horses,” says Kennedy, a school recorder-evaluator in the School of Social… -
April 29, 2013
Graduating students ready to make their marks on the world
Bringing the Internet home to Kenya By Nicole Casal Moore News Service “Dead aid.” That’s how Rama Mwenesi refers to the kind of foreign help that means well but doesn’t last. He saw it first-hand growing up in and around Nairobi, Kenya. “Groups would come in and build water wells in the rural communities without… -
April 29, 2013
Parking structure work to start
More online • See maps showing locations of U-M parking lots.• See U-M bus routes and schedules. The Wall Street parking lot (M41) will close in June when work begins on a new 720-space parking structure. During construction, 211 Blue Permit spaces will be displaced. The five-story, $34 million project was approved by the Board… -
April 29, 2013
Air pollution linked to hardening of the arteries
Long-term exposure to air pollution may be linked to heart attacks and strokes by speeding up atherosclerosis, or “hardening of the arteries,” according to a U-M public health researcher and colleagues from across the U.S. Sara Adar, the John Searle Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, and Joel Kaufman, professor of…
