-
May 4, 2009
Study to look at molecules from Earth found in space Many of the organic molecules that make up life on Earth also have been found in space. A U-M astronomer will use the Herschel Space Observatory to study these chemical compounds in new detail in the warm clouds of gas and dust around young stars.…
-
May 4, 2009
President Obama has named Rosina Bierbaum, dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, to the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST). (Photo courtesy SNRE) PCAST consists of 20 of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers. They advise the president and vice president directly to help the administration formulate policy in…
-
May 4, 2009
Chung The Institute for the Humanities has awarded fellowships to eight faculty and six graduate students to support research projects they will pursue during 2009-10. Institute Director Daniel Herwitz, who chaired the selection meetings, says, “It will be an exciting year with these lucid and imaginative scholars, essayists, writers and visual artists.” The outside evaluators…
-
May 4, 2009
President Barack Obama has nominated Rebecca Blank, former dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, to be undersecretary for economic affairs in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Blank has been the Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution since July 2008. Before that, she was dean of the Ford School…
-
May 4, 2009
Watch a video of this project > Engineering students have developed a low-cost, battery-powered surgical lamp to be used in developing nations where electricity isn’t reliable. Earlier this month the members of Michigan Health Engineered for All Lives, or M-HEAL, sent their prototype lamp to Uganda where it will undergo testing. Elliot Hwang, an undergraduate…
-
May 4, 2009
A scholar whose research probes the connection between corporate and evangelical religious practices in America is the recipient of the second annual Emerging Scholars Prize. The award is given by the Institute for the Humanities. Bethany Moreton, professor of history and women’s studies at the University of Georgia, has been named the top emerging scholar…
-
May 4, 2009
The great American experiment isn’t exclusive to the practice of democratic government. Over centuries, the toils of the American-grown grape and industrious winemakers revealed a compelling portrait of early patriots, immigrants’ quest to preserve the traditions of their homeland, and the identity of an emerging world power. “Wine has played an important role in American…
-
May 4, 2009
More people live behind bars in the United States than in any other country, but the American prison system punishes more than just inmates — it also takes a toll on the health of friends and loved ones left behind. In the first known study of its kind, U-M researchers found that people with a…
-
May 4, 2009
A Selection from Maurice M. Loewy and M. Pierre Puiseux’s Atlas “Photographique de la Lune,” circa 1900, is an exhibit of six vintage photos of the moon in the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Hatcher Lobby. The photos are from a set of 82 published photogravures. These plates are from the first atlas of the moon…
-
May 4, 2009
Like the rest of Michigan and the United States, the Oakland County economy had a rough 2008 and is having an even worse 2009. But the outlook will get better, two U-M economists say. In their annual forecast of the Oakland County economy, George Fulton and Donald Grimes of the Institute for Research on Labor,…
