July 13, 2009
Beautify your world. Leave an inspirational message in a public place. Connect with a family member. These are just a few of the proposed acts of kindness pushed out to users of a new smartphone application developed by U-M students. The DoGood application is designed to operate on the iPhone and iPod Touch. (Photo by…
July 13, 2009
Irene Hess Irene Hess, 98, a survey statistician who helped set standards for excellence at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) and educated generations of graduate students in the conduct of scientific surveys, died July 5 in Ann Arbor of a cerebral hemorrhage. (Photo courtesy Hess family) “Irene Hess was one of the pioneers at…
July 13, 2009
Watch a video describing IED detection sensors > Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the weapons of suicide bombers, are a major cause of soldier casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. A group of U-M engineering undergraduate students have developed a new way to detect them. The students invented portable, palm-sized metal detectors that can be hidden in…
July 13, 2009
June 2009 crime map > Student beaten on walk home A 21-year-old student told police June 21 that four teenagers had beaten him as he walked near Regents’ Plaza. The student said he first encountered the group shortly after 2 a.m. in front of the Michigan Union. The teens began taunting him so he yelled…
July 13, 2009
More:• Information on the flu from U.S. health officials > • Information on the U-M response to the flu > • Information for visitors to U-M medical facilities > Summer is not supposed to be the flu season in Michigan. Yet, there continue to be cases of Influenza A H1N1 (formerly swine flu) diagnosed throughout…
July 13, 2009
For many students, summer means a break from school — time at the pool, a summer job or even a vacation. U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., talks with U-M students in Washington this summer as part of the university’s Public Service Intern Program. (Photo by Mike Waring, U-M Washington, D.C. Office) But for 56 U-M…
July 13, 2009
The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its June 18 meeting. Addition to G. G. Brown planned An addition of approximately 66,000 gross square feet to the George Granger Brown Memorial Laboratories is planned that will house laboratories and faculty and graduate student offices for the Department of Mechanical Engineering‘s efforts…
July 13, 2009
Dr. Francis Collins, a former Medical School professor who led the Human Genome Project, has been appointed by President Barack Obama to head the National Institutes of Health. Pending approval by Congress, he will direct the nation’s leading biomedical research agency, which funds medical science at the 27 NIH institutes and centers, and at universities…
July 13, 2009
The university and lecturers on the Ann Arbor campus have reached a settlement on two related salary issues that gives about 800 eligible lecturers an additional 1.5 percent increase in the 2008-09 academic year and a 2 percent increase in 2009-10. A settlement was reached June 23 between negotiators for U-M and the Lecturers’ Employee…
July 13, 2009
With John Haley’s help, it’s possible to dedicate a campus residence hall, and eat it too. Haley, a postal clerk at U-M Flint, is known for his elaborately decorated cakes, one of which was a replica of the college’s first residence hall created for the building’s dedication. (Photo by Mel Serow, UM-Flint) What began as…
