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November 24, 2008
The blood-thinning drug heparin is highly effective when used to prevent and treat blood clots in veins, arteries and lungs, but earlier this year its reputation as a lifesaver was sullied when contaminated heparin products caused serious allergic reactions that led to a large number of deaths. Now, U-M researchers have demonstrated a simple, inexpensive…
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November 24, 2008
In recognition that the current economic crisis may have hit home for some University students, Provost Teresa Sullivan is encouraging those whose families face severe financial problems due to job loss, home foreclosure, business decline or other reasons to make the U-M Office of Financial Aid their first point of contact for help. Sullivan is…
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November 24, 2008
The U-M Museum of Art (UMMA) has been selected to receive a gift of 50 works of art from New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, with the help of the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The gifts are part of a…
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November 24, 2008
As universities nationwide prepare to serve more than 1.5 million veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, U-M has implemented numerous programs to help ease the transition from military life to college life. “The University’s size and complexity can make navigating the campus difficult, especially if a prospective student is deployed with the military out of…
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November 24, 2008
University officials on Nov. 14 announced The Michigan Difference has raised more than $3.1 billion in support of facilities, programs, professorships and student aid since July 2000. The support of more than 364,000 donors has enabled the University to increase greatly student financial aid, create new student programs, hire and retain outstanding faculty, support groundbreaking…
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November 24, 2008
In 1953, during the height of the McCarthy Era, Milo Radulovich was a student at U-M. He studied physics and served in the Air Force Reserves. Radulovich was targeted as a communist and removed from the Reserves as a result. For Radulovich, as for many others, these charges eventually were shown to be false, but…
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November 24, 2008
Subject: Faculty grievance procedures In January 2007 the Senate Assembly approved a report from the Faculty Grievance Procedures Task Force. This committee had been established because the current grievance procedures are not well suited to resolve disputes concerning the treatment of faculty by administrators. (i) There are potential conflicts of interest: review boards generally contain…
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November 24, 2008
The Division of Kinesiology has been renamed the School of Kinesiology, effective Dec. 1, by action of the Board of Regents Nov. 21. The name change reflects the growing prominence, enrollment, body of research and number of faculty positions over the last decade. “The renaming of the division to a school reinforces that the importance…
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November 24, 2008
Related story:As Big Three struggle, so does state > Economists at U-M confirmed today what many Americans already believe — that the nation is in the throes of recession. And it’s a recession that will bottom out in mid-2009 with only modest economic growth expected in 2010 and unemployment hovering above 8 percent throughout that…
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November 24, 2008
The University attracted 5,748 international students to the state in 2007-08, the sixth highest total in the nation, according to an Institute of International Education report showing international enrollment at all-time high nationwide. A record 623,805 international students contributed $15 billion to the U.S. economy, up 7 percent from the year before. In Michigan, the…
