December 7, 2009
Director David Schwimmer, shown with Lee Doyle, director of U-M’s Film Office, takes a break from working on the feature movie “Trust” to meet with the media at the University’s North Campus Research Complex. Schwimmer and Doyle answered questions Dec. 1 about the film that has been shot at the new complex as well as…
December 7, 2009
A Holiday Violin Recital by Students of Wendy Azrak and Anna Bittar from the Ann Arbor Suzuki Institute is presented at 12:10 p.m. Dec. 10 at the University Hospital first floor main lobby. Sponsored by the Gifts of Art, 936-2787. (Photo courtesy Gifts Of Art)
December 7, 2009
As the Obama administration announced new measures last week to help troubled home borrowers, there is more good news for homeowners — foreclosures will begin to fall next year, a U-M researcher says. After rising more than 30 percent a year for the last four years, foreclosures across the country will drop from a peak…
December 7, 2009
Poet, essayist, novelist and commentator Andrei Codrescu will address the topic of communist Romania’s collapse and what followed in a public lecture titled “How to Make a Revolution: A Guide to Romania’s Fin-de-Siecle Media Spectacle as Performed by a Dying Regime, a Willing Populace and the International Press Corps.” It is presented at 7 p.m.…
December 7, 2009
Leaders from Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) and Occupational Safety and Environmental Health (OSEH) have announced plans to roll out additional safety requirements to help ensure construction site safety for all outside contractors working on U-M projects. The new requirements will become effective in January. The university will continue to evaluate the impact of these…
December 7, 2009
Awards Tal Carmon, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering, has received a Young Investigator Program award from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. His research project in the area of photonic micro-electro-mechanical systems is titled “Continuous On-Chip Extreme UV Emitter.” John Hart, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, College…
December 7, 2009
Previous studies have shown a link between low vitamin D status and heart disease. Now a new study shows that patients with high blood pressure who possess a gene variant that affects an enzyme critical to normal vitamin D activation are twice as likely as those without the variant to have congestive heart failure. “This…
December 7, 2009
Women were less likely than men to receive major funding for scientific research, according to a study from the U-M Health System. The study also found that only a quarter of all researchers, both men and women, who received a major early career award went on to get further federal funding within five years. The…
December 7, 2009
Gertrude (Trudy) Veneklasen Huebner Regent Emerita Gertrude (Trudy) Veneklasen Huebner, 94, died Nov. 13 at home in Ann Arbor. Huebner excelled in every activity she put her mind to and lived life with gusto, family members say. She was passionate, kind and compassionate, a master of the English language and wonderfully irreverent, they add. Huebner…
