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March 18, 2013
U-M graduate schools continue to receive top rankings
The university continues to be recognized for its academic strength nationally in the latest rankings of graduate programs by U.S News & World Report. Among programs ranked each year in the "Best Graduate Schools" U-M maintained top-14 rankings in all five categories in the latest edition.
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March 18, 2013
Entrepreneurship program's goal is more state tech startups
A new entrepreneurial training program for inventors in Michigan aims to fast-track technologies to market and boost the economic impact of research conducted in the state.
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March 18, 2013
ITS announces winners for fall Mobile Apps Challenge
Innovative mobile phone apps — one that helps headache sufferers track pain and one that creates a virtual experience for reading text on ancient papyrus — took the top two places in the Fall 2012 Mobile Apps Challenge.
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March 18, 2013
Police beat
February 2013 crime map > Road rage spills into parking lot A staff member told police he was struck by a truck while protecting his own vehicle following an earlier dispute over driving methods. The incident reportedly occurred around 8 a.m. Feb. 21 in Lot NC43 near Fuller Road and Bonisteel Boulevard. The victim said… -
March 18, 2013
Don't miss: Exhibition celebrates Research Through Making
The Liberty Research Annex Gallery space is readied for the Research Through Making exhibition, which runs through April 21. Photo courtesy Alex Jacque. In architecture, research and creative practice often are constructed as opposites. The perceived tension between design and research is indicative of the field of architecture seeking to understand its nature as an… -
March 18, 2013
Poverty rate is highest in 15 years, says U-M professor
The Great Recession leaves behind the largest number of long-term unemployed people, or 4.7 million, since records were first kept in 1948, according to research from U-M. “About 46 million Americans, according to our latest count, are poor. That means for a family of four, they’re living on less than $23,000 a year,” said sociologist… -
March 18, 2013
Local leaders: In residents we trust
Local government leaders in Michigan are more likely to trust their residents than their residents are to trust local governments, according to a U-M survey. More than half of Michigan’s local leaders, or 53 percent, say they trust their residents to be responsible participants in local governance “nearly always” or “most of the time.” Nearly… -
March 18, 2013
Cryptic clams: U-M biologists find species hiding in plain view
Cryptic comments seem to have an ambiguous, obscure or hidden meaning. In biology, cryptic species are outwardly indistinguishable groups whose differences are hidden inside their genes. Two U-M marine biologists have identified three cryptic species of tiny clams, long believed to be members of the same species, which have been hiding in plain view along… -
March 18, 2013
Protected areas prevent deforestation in Amazon rainforest
Strictly protected areas such as national parks and biological reserves have been more effective at reducing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest than so-called sustainable-use areas that allow for controlled resource extraction, two U-M researchers and their colleagues have found. In addition, protected areas established primarily to safeguard the rights and livelihoods of indigenous people performed… -
March 18, 2013
Security officer influenced by medieval culture
Living in close proximity to large stone castles in the middle of green hills was a portal into another world for Matthew Stewart-Fulton. “When I was 5 my family moved to England for a year, so I was surrounded by medieval aspects that left an impression on me as a child,” says Stewart-Fulton, a security…
