October 12, 2009
Learn more about the Peace Corps at U-M > As Peace Corps volunteers, John Greisberger and his wife taught English as a foreign language to students in Afghanistan. “It was a terrific experience,” says Greisberger, director of the International Center. “The teaching conditions were far from ideal. There were no books or chalkboards — sometimes,…
October 12, 2009
All of Washtenaw County’s autopsies are now being performed at the U-M morgue, and the county medical examiner’s office has been moved to campus. The move is part of an ongoing partnership between the university and the county government. The county helped to fund a new state-of-art morgue that opened at the hospital in July.…
October 12, 2009
Related stories:Coleman outlines opportunities, challenges for upcoming year >Record number of U-M inventions reported last year > President Mary Sue Coleman announced she will lead a multifaceted initiative to elevate the university’s commitment to sustainability in teaching, research and operations. President Mary Sue Coleman answers questions from the audience during her State of the University…
October 12, 2009
More online:List of free-view U-M Press titles in HathiTrust >U-M Press’ digital transition >U-M Library’s Digitization Project >HathiTrust > U-M Press is joining with HathiTrust Digital Library to open electronic content for free online access. U-M Press plans to have 1,000 or more titles available for full viewing by the end of this year. Launched…
October 12, 2009
As part of an ongoing effort to improve the way it conducts business, the university has launched a benchmarking study at its Ann Arbor campus to examine a number of its administrative functions, including finance, human resources/payroll, procurement, information technology, student services, development, communications and sponsored research administration. The study, which is jointly sponsored by…
October 12, 2009
Latinas who spoke little English were less likely to undergo reconstruction surgery after a mastectomy for breast cancer, according to a study from researchers at the Comprehensive Cancer Center. The study compared breast reconstruction among white women, African-American women, Latina women who were highly acculturated and Latina women who were less acculturated. Acculturation is a…
October 12, 2009
Related stories:Coleman outlines opportunities, challenges for upcoming year >President launches sustainability initiative > U-M researchers disclosed 350 new inventions in fiscal year 2009, setting a new record. Royalties from university-developed technologies increased by 20 percent during that period, another all-time high. And despite the state’s economic woes, the university licensed eight new startups in the…
October 12, 2009
An increase in cases of a rare type of head and neck cancer appears to be linked to HPV, or human papillomavirus, according to new Comprehensive Cancer Center research. The study looked at patients with nasopharyngeal cancer, a tumor that grows behind the nose and at the top of the throat, above the tonsils. This…
October 12, 2009
Scientists from U-M and Minnesota show that gene therapy may be used to improve an ailing heart’s ability to contract properly. In addition to showing gene therapy’s potential for reversing the course of heart failure, it also offers a glimpse of a day when “closed heart surgery” via gene therapy is as commonly prescribed as…
October 12, 2009
All photos by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services.
