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December 15, 2008
U-M is among the 100 “Best Value Colleges for 2009’’ and one of only two Michigan colleges or universities to make the list, according to a Princeton Review/USA Today study. The publications said U-M “offers a great balance of two very different college worlds — the huge state school with top tier athletics and vibrant…
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December 8, 2008
Fifty international research teams are vying for funding in the first round of a University-based program to strengthen ties between U-M and Israeli life scientists. The Life Sciences Institute received 50 proposals for funding under the U-M/Israel Partnership for Scientific Research. That’s about five times more research proposals than LSI Director Alan Saltiel expected to…
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December 8, 2008
The art of business and the business of art have come together in a new post-graduate degree. As a strategic and timely solution to the ongoing challenge of preparing students to thrive in the complex 21st-century job market, the dual graduate degree program joins a rigorous business curriculum with an immersion in the conceptualization, development…
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December 8, 2008
U-M should enhance the international curriculum, create an Institute for Advanced International Studies or the functional equivalent and open a Universitywide facility for furthering collaborations in China, the President’s Task Force on China recommends in a new report. As the University engages in a major self-study for reaccreditation in 2010 focused on internationalization, President Mary…
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December 8, 2008
See the U-M team at work in Ghana > The University has received a $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to work with Ghanaian health experts and authorities to strengthen human resources for health in Ghana. The Center for Global Health (CGH), School of Public Health (SPH) and Medical School will…
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December 8, 2008
View the digital Jon Cohen Aids Research Collection > In conjunction with World AIDS Day Dec. 1, the University launched a searchable, online trove of AIDS-related literature gathered by a prominent science writer. The materials digitized and organized by the School of Information and the University Library includes transcripts of government meetings, obscure documents from…
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December 8, 2008
Melanoma, deadliest skin cancer, does not fit mode One of the most promising new ideas about the causes of cancer, known as the cancer stem-cell model, must be reassessed because it is based largely on evidence from a laboratory test that is surprisingly flawed when applied to some cancers, researchers say. Johnson By upgrading the…
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December 8, 2008
Watch Abdul El-Sayed’s 2007 commencement address > A medical and doctoral student who plans to become a neurosurgeon so he may “mend with my hands some of the defects I cannot avert through my research” has been named a Rhodes Scholar. Abdul El-Sayed, a medical and doctoral student who plans to become a neurosurgeon, has…
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December 8, 2008
Related story:Forum: U-M committed to affordable health care > Registration begins tomorrow in some areas of the University for the latest MHealthy program designed to create a culture of health and wellness at U-M. Active faculty and staff on all three campuses are encouraged to take part in an MHealthy Wellness Assessment — a free,…
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December 8, 2008
The U-M Museum of Art will open a landmark 53,000 square-foot expansion and major restoration of its historic, 41,000-square-foot home, Alumni Memorial Hall. A 24-hour public opening beginning 6 p.m. March 28 will cap a celebratory week of special events for the museum’s family of donors, members, volunteers, and U-M faculty, staff and students. Designed…
