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January 26, 2009
Awards Professor Thomas Wenisch has been awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award for his research project Programming Interfaces and Hardware Designs for a Polymorphic Multicore Cache Architecture. The CAREER Program offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars…
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January 26, 2009
Six doctoral candidates will receive $50,000 fellowships from the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute to support interdisciplinary research related to environmental sustainability. Now in its fourth year, the Graham Graduate Fellowship Program provides financial support and academic collaboration for doctoral candidates pursuing interdisciplinary research concentrating on environmental sustainability. Issues of particular focus to the Institute and…
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January 26, 2009
Police Beat is a monthly feature. The next publication date is Feb. 16.
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January 26, 2009
The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan has awarded Dr. David Kuhl, professor of radiology at the Medical School, its Japan Prize for technological integration of medical science and engineering. The foundation honors those whose original and outstanding achievements in science and technology are recognized as having advanced the frontiers of knowledge and served the…
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January 26, 2009
B The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its Jan. 22 meeting New basketball player development center planned A new player development center for the men’s and women’s intercollegiate basketball programs adjacent to Crisler Arena is planned. Jickling Lyman Powell Associates Inc. have been selected to design the 50,000-gross-square-foot facility to…
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January 26, 2009
In 2008 faculty and staff gave generously to the annual U-M United Way campaign. While numbers for pledges and donations are still being calculated, it is estimated that the University has raised approximately $975,000, U-M officials say, a significant amount in tough economic times. With the help of such campaigns, the United Way of Washtenaw…
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January 26, 2009
In the past few years ballroom dancer/instructor Jennifer Wade has seen the sport rise from obscurity with the success of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.” (Photo by Scott Soderberg, U-M Photo Services) The show, which pairs celebrities and professional dancers who compete with one another, has attracted millions of viewers on prime time television and…
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January 26, 2009
Accolade for multimedia facility, destination venue on North Campus The Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Drama Center and Arthur Miller Theatre will receive the Architecture Merit Award from USITT, an association of design, production and technology professionals in the performing arts and entertainment industry. The award will be presented March 20 at USITT’s annual conference in…
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January 19, 2009
Michigan Law Professor Douglas Laycock, whose nuanced thinking has led all sides of the debate over religious liberty to seek his counsel, will be honored Jan. 15 with a national First Freedom Award. The annual honors, awarded in Richmond, Va., by the First Freedom Center, are bestowed on individuals who make important contributions in advancing…
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January 19, 2009
Sixth-graders from Detroit Public School take part in a presentation at the First Annual BioKIDS Science Convention. The Jan. 13 event at the Michigan League Ballroom allowed students to answer questions about ecosystems, biodiversity and ecology in the Great Lakes region. BioKIDS is sponsored in part by the Interagency Education Research Initiative, and both the…
