April 29, 2013
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
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…
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
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
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
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
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 22, 2013
As cancer research has become more complex, requiring advanced statistical analysis of data, collaboration between cancer researchers and statistical researchers has become ever more critical. As a result, the School of Public Health will establish a Center for Cancer Biostatistics within the Department of Biostatistics. “The center will be a focal point for biostatistical research…
April 22, 2013
People feel happy about their future even after imagining the many bad events that might occur, a new U-M study found. People tend to “explain away” the presence of bad possibilities in their own lives, thinking that they won’t actually happen to them, said U-M researcher Ed O’Brien. “But we have a harder time explaining…
