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…
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…
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…
September 28, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light for a clinical trial of a new stem cell treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). U-M neurologist Dr. Eva Feldman will be the overall principal investigator for the first human clinical trial of a stem cell treatment for ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease. Feldman (File…
September 28, 2009
As bad as it’s been for the Detroit area economy the past several years, 2009 will end up as the worst year ever for job losses, U-M economists say. But the tide will begin to turn a year from now — albeit slowly. In their Economic Outlook for the Wayne-Oakland-Macomb Region, George Fulton and Donald…
September 28, 2009
Michigan’s University Research Corridor (URC) has improved in all competitive categories over the past two years, rising among the nation’s top R&D clusters for producing patents, businesses and graduates with high-tech related degrees. Since benchmarking began in 2007, URC partners U-M, Michigan State University and Wayne State University have improved in several key areas of…
September 28, 2009
Immune therapies have been explored as a way to treat cancer after it develops. But a new study from the Comprehensive Cancer Center suggests that genetic risk of prostate cancer can be reduced by rescuing critical immune system cells. The study was done in mice and would need further validation and extensive testing in the…
September 28, 2009
Provost Teresa Sullivan told a faculty governance panel last week that changes to U-M’s travel and hosting expense policy are not likely to cause financial difficulties for people traveling on university business. Much of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs‘ discussion of the new policy dealt with the switch to a per diem system…
September 28, 2009
The Center for Japanese Studies Fall Film Series: Conflict and Compassion in Post-War Japanese Film presents “Late Spring” (1949), directed by Yasujiro Ozu, from 7-9 p.m. Oct. 2, Lorch Hall, Askwith Auditorium. (Photo courtesy Janus Films)
September 28, 2009
Higher education — its research, innovations and students — is as much a part of the nation’s energy infrastructure as are bricks and steel, President Mary Sue Coleman said last week at a national conference on energy issues. Coleman participated in the Council on Competitiveness National Energy Summit at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.…
