January 19, 2009
A new basketball player development center will be built adjacent to Crisler Arena, pending approval by the Board of Regents at its Jan. 22 meeting. The facility will provide approximately 50,000 gross square feet of new space for functional training and practice for the men’s and women’s programs. “This is a major step forward in…
January 19, 2009
Dr. Karen Matthews, a distinguished scholar in psychiatry, epidemiology and psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, will present research on cardiovascular risk factors and their psychosocial determinants at key developmental transitions such as adolescence and menopause in the 35th annual Thomas Francis Jr. Memorial Lecture. (Photo by University of Pittsburgh) Her talk “Getting to the…
January 12, 2009
Now in its fourth year, Active U organizers have expanded the faculty-staff activity program from eight to 10 weeks, created new divisions to encourage competition and added new awards so more individuals and teams can be recognized for their achievements. A new Fitness Blog feature on the Active U Web site will allow participants to…
January 12, 2009
“Rose with Raindrops” by Marcia Selley is included in her exhibit Colors of Michigan: Oil & Watercolor Paintings through Feb. 9 in the University Hospital Main Lobby. The artist is a nature enthusiast who seeks to recapture some of the most beautiful places she’s been, mostly right outside her door. Selley seeks to represent the…
January 12, 2009
Sixteen years ago Professor Toby Citrin and his then-13-year-old daughter Ana attended the Clinton presidential inauguration, where they and a diverse crowd shared a spirit of hope and excitement for the future. Citrin returned to the nation’s capital this weekend to watch from the National Mall as Barack Obama is sworn into office Jan. 20…
January 12, 2009
See a complete listing of MLK events > Lectures by civil rights leaders, Native American drumming, children’s activities and a hip-hop summit are just a few of the activities planned as part of the 23rd annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium, which opens on campus this week. Students, staff, faculty and community members…
January 12, 2009
Stephen Melville, history of art, Ohio State University, has widely published on contemporary art as well as on issues in contemporary theory and historiography. He will speak in the Featuring Our Fellows Brown Bag Lecture presented by the Institute for the Humanities from noon-1:30 p.m. in Room 2022, 202 S. Thayer. Melville’s lecture is titled,…
January 12, 2009
Award Professor Daphna Oyserman will receive the 2009 Society for Social Work Excellence in Research Award Jan. 16 for her article “Identity-Based Motivation and Health,” published in the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology. In conferring the award, the society recognized the significance of the problem addressed in her research, the rigor of the analysis,…
January 12, 2009
International research collaborations seeking new ways to fuel transportation will get kick-started by a $2.2 million program sponsored by the University of Michigan and Fraunhofer. The program will award seed money grants of up to $200,000 annually for two years to projects that explore alternative energy innovations for transportation. Each project must have researchers from…
January 12, 2009
Criminal justice scholars often say that the true number of innocent people convicted of crimes is unknown — in fact, unknowable. A new study challenges that belief in one important context. Among defendants sentenced to death in the United States since 1973, at least 2.3 percent — and possibly more — were falsely convicted, says…
