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June 22, 2009
In places where young women outnumber young men, research shows the hemlines rise but the marriage rates don’t, because the young men feel less pressure to settle down as more women compete for their affections. But when those men reach their 30s, the reverse is true and proportionately more older men are married in areas…
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June 22, 2009
From the dawn of science, artists have been creating finely detailed drawings of plants, first for healers seeking medicinal herbs and later for botanical and medical researchers. (Photo by Austin Thomason, U-M Photo Services) The craft has survived for centuries. Even the invention of photography in the 19th century could not force obsolescence upon botanical…
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June 22, 2009
Related stories:UMHHC weathers tough economic climate, plans for growth >Athletics revenues support financial aid, capital improvements >Dearborn, Flint budgets approved by board > Chart: Recent state funding in perspective >Chart: The changing mix of general fund revenue > Faced with the toughest economic times since the Great Depression, the Board of Regents voted 6 to…
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June 22, 2009
Why does dishing with a girlfriend do wonders for a woman’s mood? A U-M study has identified a likely reason: Feeling emotionally close to a friend increases levels of the hormone progesterone, helping to boost well-being and reduce anxiety and stress. “This study establishes progesterone as a likely part of the neuroendocrine basis of social…
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June 22, 2009
For the first time direct evidence of lightning has been detected on Mars, say university researchers who found signs of electrical discharges during dust storms on the Red Planet. An illustration of a Martian dust storm of the sort that may cause lightning. (Photo by Brian Grimm And Nilton Renno) The bolts were dry lightning,…
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June 22, 2009
The Frankel Commercialization Fund, a student-managed venture capital seed fund at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, is investing $80,000 in Accio Energy, an Ann Arbor-based developer of an innovative wind energy system. This marks the fund’s fourth investment and the first in a renewable-energy company. Accio Energy, founded by entrepreneurs Dawn White and…
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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)…
