July 27, 2009
The Institute for Social Research (ISR) is one of four research institutions selected to carry out the largest study to date of suicide and mental health among military personnel. With $50 million in funding from the U.S. Army, the new study is a collaborative program of research that also will involve scientists from the National…
July 27, 2009
Two young faculty researchers already impacting their respective fields will receive the Henry Russel Award, one of the highest honors the university bestows upon junior faculty. Cindy Lustig, assistant professor of psychology, LSA, and Patricia Wittkopp, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, LSA, have been…
July 27, 2009
The Record accepts obituaries from university departments, family members and funeral homes acting on behalf of the family. All obituaries must be for active or retired faculty and staff members.
July 27, 2009
U-M and Ann Arbor welcome the National Training Institute> A national electrician apprentice program will bring 2,200 people to campus, along with a $5 million economic impact on the community, organizers say. The National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (NJATC) will host the National Training Institute Aug. 1-7 at U-M. The group has relocated its…
July 27, 2009
Police Beat is a monthly feature. The next publication will be August 17.
July 27, 2009
Learn more about the Detroit Center for Family Advocacy > With a mightily stressed child foster care system, one-third of the state’s foster kids, and fully half of the state’s permanent court wards, Wayne County’s Department of Human Services is about to get help from the Law School. The Law School’s new Detroit Center for…
July 27, 2009
The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its July 16 meeting. Lab renovations at C. C. Little planned Renovations at the Clarence Cook Little Science Building will create updated laboratory and office spaces to support the research of new faculty in the Department of Geology. The $1.2 million project is being…
July 27, 2009
Electromagnetics researcher Anthony Grbic is one of 100 scientists and engineers across the nation who will be honored this year with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). (Photo courtesy Anthony Grbic) Grbic, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, will receive his award at a White House ceremony this…
July 27, 2009
Dana Thomas, the student affairs project manager in the Office of Public Health Practice, has a complaint about her job: “There’s just not enough time in the work day!” (Photo by Austin Thomason, U-M Photo Services) Among other things, Thomas is involved in coordinating and managing trips through the Public Health Action Support Team (PHAST),…
