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June 8, 2009
The university has expanded its historic agreement with Google Inc. to create digital copies of millions of U-M library books and journals. The amended agreement, which strengthens library preservation efforts and increases the public’s access to books, is possible because of Google’s pending settlement with a broad class of authors and publishers. The U-M Library…
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June 8, 2009
Watch an overview of the 100-year history of dance at U-M > Until now, it’s been a hidden gem of local history. A few years ago, it was widely accepted that the history of dance instruction at U-M began a few decades before the department was formally established in 1974. In 1915, when this photograph…
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June 8, 2009
A team of Stephen M. Ross School of Business MBAs and their startup, Husk Insulation, won the $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize. It is a national student competition founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the U.S. Department of Energy, and utility NSTAR to accelerate the pace of clean energy entrepreneurship. The Ross representatives also…
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June 8, 2009
As Michigan lost a quarter of its manufacturing jobs, its University Research Corridor partners helped the state become a national life sciences leader, boosting the number of jobs in that sector 10.7 percent as average wages jumped 29 percent, according to a new analysis released recently at the Mackinac Policy Conference. More than 79,062 Michigan…
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June 8, 2009
Some U-M Library employees have been offered the equivalent of nine months salary to retire by the end of August. The incentive was offered to all retirement-eligible library employees, excluding senior managers. They received the offer in a letter May 29. They have until July 15 to decide whether they will retire by Aug. 31…
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June 8, 2009
Vehicle fuel efficiency made little progress since 1920s Vehicles on America’s roads today get only about three miles more per gallon than vehicles back in 1923, researchers say. A study in the journal Energy Policy by Michael Sivak and Omer Tsimhoni of the U-M Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) shows that overall fuel efficiency for vehicles…
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June 8, 2009
The Center for Ethics in Public Life and the Rackham School of Graduate Studies recently announced the first five recipients of summer fellowships for students writing dissertations related to ethics in public life. The new program provides summer support for the students and a summer workshop in which the fellows, drawn from a broad range…
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June 8, 2009
William Shakespeare’s story of mistaken love and mistaken identity, “Twelfth Night,” is the featured play as Shakespeare in the Arb returns to the rolling landscape of Nichols Arboretum. Countess Olivia (Devin Lytle) and Duke Orsino (Chris Harrison) are among characters in this year’s Shakespeare in the Arb presentation of “Twelfth Night,” June 11-14, 18-21, and…
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June 8, 2009
Vice President for Research Stephen Forrest has been named board chairman of Ann Arbor SPARK, the region’s economic development authority. (Photo courtesy OVPR) Forrest was elected during SPARK’s annual meeting May 21. He succeeds Rick Snyder, who served as chairman since the organization’s formation in 2005. “I’m happy to take on this greater level of…
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June 8, 2009
The Ahn Trio, sisters Maria, Lucia and Angella, will speak about their work, artistry, and the need to synthesize, cross cultures and to cross genre boundaries in a 6:30-7:30 p.m., program June 15 at the McIntosh Theater, E.V. Moore Building. (Photo courtesy Gifts Of Art)
