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June 22, 2009
Related stories:U-M plans largest ever investment in financial aid >Athletics revenues support financial aid, capital improvements >Dearborn, Flint budgets approved by board > Despite a very challenging economic environment, the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers will end the fiscal year in the black later this month, according to preliminary results presented Thursday at a meeting…
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June 22, 2009
WorkConnections, the university’s integrated disability services program designed to assist employees — and their supervisors — when a health condition prevents employees from working, is discontinuing disability management services for uncomplicated pregnancies, effective July 1. Disability management services provided by WorkConnections for uncomplicated pregnancies haven’t widely been used by the university community in recent years…
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June 22, 2009
When a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007, the incident prompted security discussions at colleges across the country and suggestions that classrooms locked from the inside could have averted the tragedy. At U-M, the All Hazards Planning Group has attempted to prepare the university for a similar public safety emergency, although internal…
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June 22, 2009
More than 100 feet deep in Lake Huron, on a wide, stony ridge that 9,000 years ago was a land bridge, U-M researchers have found the first archeological evidence of human activity preserved beneath the Great Lakes. A possible stone hunting blind, approximately 3.5 meters in diameter, beneath Lake Huron. (Photo courtesy Of John O’Shea)…
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June 22, 2009
The Office of Technology Transfer wants to make it clear that student entrepreneurs can pursue their inventions on campus without concern that the university will later try to claim ownership. That’s why the office is making several changes to its Technology Transfer Policy. The most significant change clarifies the ownership provisions for intellectual property created…
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June 22, 2009
Students going away to college experience substantially more stress and responsibility resulting from increased independence and accountability. New social and physical surroundings, the influence of popular media and the change in their support systems create vulnerable transition periods for incoming students. The university is taking steps to better prepare new students for their transition to…
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June 22, 2009
President Mary Sue Coleman joined national business leaders to promote the idea that risking and being willing to accept failure is necessary if the U.S. wants to promote entrepreneurship. President Mary Sue Coleman speaks at The National Summit in Detroit. Also on the panel Tuesday were James Turley, center, CEO of Ernst & Young, and…
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June 22, 2009
Indonesian women born into rural communities in rainy years grow taller, stay in school longer and live in households with greater wealth than women born in years with lower rainfall, a new U-M study suggests. The study extends previous research on the long-run impact of extreme environmental conditions in the critical first year of life…
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June 22, 2009
Related stories:U-M plans largest ever investment in financial aid >UMHHC weathers tough economic climate, plans for growth >Dearborn, Flint budgets approved by board > The Athletic Department presented to the Board of Regents Thursday a proposed FY 2010 budget that will fund all sports to the full NCAA scholarship limit and support capital expenditures. Total…
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June 22, 2009
The faces in this book are worth preserving on paper, even as Web communications and social media surge in popularity. That’s the assessment of those who oversee and produce the Michiganensian yearbook, as they start to plan the 2010 edition this spring and summer. Recent Michiganensian staff members Eileen Hengel and Peter Andrews work on…
