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February 2, 2009
Author and Child Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman delivers the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy’s 2009 Citigroup Foundation Lecture. During the Jan. 27 event at Michigan Union Ballroom, Edelman also read from her new book, “The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next…
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February 2, 2009
In 2007 Cherish Thomas received a letter from the University telling her she qualified for a $5,000 award from the Paul and Amy Blavin Scholarship Fund. Thomas grew up in the foster care system and this information was a part of her financial aid application. Delia Alvarez learned that she had received a Blavin Scholarship…
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February 2, 2009
A lack of education is the leading cause of the health crisis facing today’s youth, said Dr. Joycelyn Elders, a former surgeon general under President Clinton. Elders delivered a keynote address for the School of Public Health‘s Fifth Annual Practice Office Symposium Jan. 27 in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The event also featured remarks by Richard…
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February 2, 2009
It’s official. The final amount raised for The Michigan Difference, the most successful fundraising campaign in U-M history, is $3,200,733,103. The campaign, which was launched publicly in May 2004 and officially ended Dec. 31, exceeded its $2.5 billion goal by 28 percent. The final sum is believed to be the largest amount ever raised by…
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February 2, 2009
The first global maps of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels based on data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) will be created by a University researcher and her colleagues. The team will use sophisticated mathematical techniques to fill information gaps between the satellite’s direct measurements, the closest of which will be 93 miles apart at the…
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February 2, 2009
Despite scientific consensus to the contrary, a few climate change skeptics don’t believe humans are causing global warming. They blame the sun’s cycles, or they base a divergent theory on a tiny piece of the planet’s temperature history. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) At an upcoming Distinguished University Professor Lecture, Joyce Penner will…
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February 2, 2009
Special workplace benefits help relieve stress, improve bottom line While thousands of American workers are losing jobs these days, many more are stressed out. For those fortunate to still have jobs in this down economy, however, companies can help alleviate workplace stress — and possible violence — by providing complementary alternative benefits, business professors say.…
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February 2, 2009
Detroit Tigers pitchers Chris Lambert, left, and Kyle Bloom spend time with 16-month-old patient Sofia LaPres at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Sofia has hypoplastic left heart syndrome and is waiting for a heart transplant. During the Tigers’ annual two-day Winter Caravan tour, the players reconnect with fans by visiting area hospitals, community rallies and banquets.…
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February 2, 2009
Flint native and alumnus Howard Bragman (LSA ’78) has drawn public attention for providing litigation support in high profile cases, among them cases involving discrimination over sexual orientation. A nationally respected crisis counselor, Bragman has aided the legal efforts of Joseph Steffan who was kicked out of the U.S. Naval Academy for his sexual orientation;…
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February 2, 2009
U-M researchers have discovered that a common parasite infecting one-in-five Americans needs an escape hatch to go on its destructive mission that can damage the brain, eyes and other organs. The protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii infects up to 23 percent of Americans. In some areas of the world, up to 95 percent of the population…
