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April 29, 2013
Old school: U-M in History
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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… -
April 29, 2013
Five honored for teaching innovations
Five U-M faculty projects that demonstrate fresh approaches to advance student learning will be recognized May 6, as winners of the fifth annual Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize. The recipients will be recognized on the opening day of Enriching Scholarship 2013.
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April 29, 2013
Don't miss: Exhibit celebrates reproductive justice movement
“Stop Forced Sterilization” is from “Birthing Reproductive Justice: 150 Years of Images and Ideas,” in the Hatcher Graduate Library North Lobby display cases through June 10. Photo by Courtesy U-M Library. Reproductive Justice — the right to have children, not have children, and parent children in healthy and safe environments — a movement and perspective… -
April 29, 2013
Campuses, units to celebrate Spring Commencement
Twitter CEO and U-M alumnus Richard (Dick) Costolo will deliver the annual Spring Commencement address at 10 a.m. Saturday in Michigan Stadium. Read a wrap-up of commencement activities and information about attending.
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April 29, 2013
Accolades
Catie Newell, assistant professor of architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, has been named a winner of the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize for her submission “Involving Darkness.” She also is a founding principal of Alibi Studio, based in Detroit. Newell’s creative practice has been recognized for exploring… -
April 29, 2013
Food operators selected for MUG in Michigan Union
When students return to campus in the fall, they will see a newly renovated MUG space on the ground floor of the Michigan Union with new and updated food vendors. Ahmo's Mediterranean Grill is coming to the Union, and Wendy's and Subway will return with expanded offerings. Panda Express also will remain on the lower-level MUG.
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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 22, 2013
UMMA among first university art museums to join Google Art Project
The potential impact might not be so farfetched: In several years, Google Art Project could be to the international art museum world and cultural literacy what “googling” has meant for Internet searchers — a greater access to information and broader understanding of the connection among cultures. On April 19, the U-M Museum of Art joined… -
April 22, 2013
Robotics Day speakers: State could lead in autonomous vehicles
Michigan roadways are likely to be among the earliest places where automated or self-driving cars will be deployed, John Maddox of the U-M Transportation Research Institute said at Robotics Day April 15. “This is the place where it’s going to happen first,” Maddox, UMTRI’s director of collaborative program strategies, told the crowd of about 450…
