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April 1, 2013
Don't miss: Speakers discuss the origin of life at symposium
In the symposium “The Origin of Life,” five prominent speakers will address topics ranging from artificial life to RNA fitness landscapes to molecular cooperation at the origins of life. The symposium is from 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Friday in Room 340 West Hall. It is sponsored by the U-M branch of the Institute for Complex Adaptive… -
April 1, 2013
Program to help train next generation of palliative care providers
U-M is investing in a program that aims to increase the number of palliative care physicians in Ann Arbor and beyond.
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April 1, 2013
Accolades
Cindy L. Fenske, lecturer IV in the School of Nursing, has been appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder to the Michigan Board of Nursing. Fenske, a registered nurse, teaches in the school’s division of acute, critical and long-term care. The Board of Nursing establishes qualifications for nurse licensure, approves standards for nurse education programs and more. Hashim M.… -
April 1, 2013
U.S. Supreme Court to hear state case on affirmative action
The U.S. Supreme Court again will take up the issue of affirmative action in university admissions by agreeing to review a federal court's decision to overturn Michigan's voter-approved ban on the use of race in college admissions.
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April 1, 2013
University exploring public-private partnership for parking operations
The university has retained Greenhill & Co. to complete an assessment of whether a public-private partnership arrangement for parking operations is of value for the Ann Arbor campus and U-M Health System.
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April 1, 2013
Staller, Holland elected to lead SACUA
The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs has elected Karen Staller to chair the university's faculty governance system for the coming year. Rex Holland was elected vice chair.
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April 1, 2013
Seldom-performed epic features collaboration with music students
Even by the standards of an art form known for extravagant gestures, hyperbole and grand spectacles, the upcoming concert performance of Darius Milhaud’s “Oresteia of Aeschylus” is a monumental undertaking and a dramatic unveiling of a seldom performed work by one of the 20th century’s most experimental composers. Also known as “The Oresteian Trilogy,” the… -
April 1, 2013
Michigan hospitals lead nation in preventing UTIs
Patients at Michigan hospitals are less likely to experience a urinary tract infection caused by a catheter than at other hospitals in the country, according to a new study by U-M. Michigan hospitals lead the way in using key prevention practices to reduce the number of catheter-associated UTIs and also have lower rates of UTIs,… -
April 1, 2013
Campus unions ratify new collective bargaining agreements
Collective bargaining units representing U-M workers have announced that union members have ratified new agreements with the university. Tentative agreements were reached over the last few weeks. In each case, the university achieved meaningful cost savings and operational gains during good-faith negotiations, said university spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald. In each case, portions of the contracts were… -
April 1, 2013
Program helps high schoolers share the Michigan experience
Advisers from the Michigan College Advising Corps (MCAC) brought some of their best and brightest high school students to participate in Michigan Experience Day on the Ann Arbor campus March 25. More than 120 students from Benton Harbor to Port Huron, Muskegon to Jackson, and points in between visited the university’s schools and colleges, heard…
