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October 5, 2009
UM-Dearborn’s accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools has been expanded to include the campus’s new doctorate in education degree program. The School of Education‘s Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) program, which began this fall with 18 students enrolled, meets the needs of educators looking to broaden their…
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October 5, 2009
It’s been called the sensor swarm, the sea of sensors and ubiquitous computing. It’s the idea that soon we’ll be living in a world where trillions of tiny electronic sensors monitor everything from the weather to the structural integrity of bridges to the temperature of milk cartons in a shipment. From left: Daeyeon Kim, graduate…
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October 5, 2009
The Great Depression had a silver lining: During that hard time, U.S. life expectancy increased by 6.2 years, researchers say. Life expectancy rose from 57.1 in 1929 to 63.3 years in 1932, according to the analysis by U-M researchers José A. Tapia Granados and Ana Diez Roux. The increase occurred for both men and women,…
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October 5, 2009
U-M’s engineering program will best serve Michigan’s emerging knowledge-based economy by drawing a more diverse student population — and, therefore, the brightest creative thinkers and problem solvers, educators say. To jump-start action toward that goal, an Oct. 13 summit — Assuring Michigan’s Knowledge-Based Workforce: A Summit on Diversity & Opportunity in K-16+ Engineering Education —…
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October 5, 2009
Film: “Sleepwalking Land,” Global Lens International Film Series, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, School of Social Work Building, Room 1636. In war-torn Mozambique, a boy searches the desolate countryside for his family with the aid of an elderly guide. Back-to-back screenings are on the first floor of the International Institute. Sponsored by the Center for International…
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October 5, 2009
Reforming child welfare is hard, but it is not impossible to make a difference, says Olivia Golden, an author and child/family expert who will speak on the topic Oct. 14 at the School of Social Work. The challenge for child welfare agencies is balancing parents’ autonomy and children’s safety, she says. (Photo courtesy Olivia Golden)…
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October 5, 2009
President Mary Sue Coleman will update the campus community on U-M accomplishments, challenges and opportunities — including next steps for the North Campus Research Complex, how U-M is addressing sustainability, and how it is faring in the economic downturn — when she delivers the State of the University Address 3:30-5 p.m. today in the Stephen…
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October 5, 2009
A $5 million federal grant will enable a Law School program to assess and improve the current practices of child representation across the nation. The U.S. Children’s Bureau of Health and Human Services awarded the Law School with a five-year grant to serve as the National Quality Improvement Center (QIC) on the Representation of Children…
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October 5, 2009
Several members of the U-M Jazz Band that toured Latin America and the Caribbean in 1965 will sit in on two numbers performed on that tour with Ellen Rowe’s U-M Jazz Ensemble in a performance at 8 p.m. Oct. 22 at Rackham Auditorium. (Photo courtesy U-M Jazz Band) The tour opened 15 months after the…
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October 5, 2009
At a new state-of-the art electron microscopy lab within the Life Sciences Institute, Georgios Skiniotis “quick-freezes” protein complexes inside a thin, icy shell before viewing them, to preserve their natural structure. From left, Georgios Skiniotis, a Life Sciences Institute research assistant professor; Alan Saltiel, director of LSI; Liz Barry, managing director of LSI; President Mary…
