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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 11, 2013
Warning system provides four-month forecast of malaria epidemics
Sea surface temperatures in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean can be used to accurately forecast, by up to four months, malaria epidemics thousands of miles away in northwestern India, a U-M theoretical ecologist and her colleagues have found. Colder-than-normal July sea surface temperatures in the tropical South Atlantic are linked to both increased monsoon rainfall… -
March 11, 2013
Old school: U-M in History
The long note
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March 11, 2013
Survivors of Japanese quake suffer violence, exploitation
Although she lives alone, the Japanese woman keeps a large pair of men’s shoes near her front door — part of her strategy to scare away stalkers. She began feeling threatened by unwanted visitors after she lost her home two years ago in Japan’s horrific triple disaster — the earthquake that triggered a tsunami and… -
March 11, 2013
Alumna Zell donates $50 million to Creative Writing Program
Chicago philanthropist Helen Zell has donated $50 million to LSA — the largest gift in the college’s history, the university announced March 7. The donation was made through the Zell Family Foundation, for which Helen Zell serves as executive director.
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March 11, 2013
Physician, professor ‘thoughtful’ about patient care
Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography. Dr. David Aronoff sat in an exam room, listening to his patient hurry through a long list of symptoms and a medical history as if she was being timed. When she finished, the patient asked why Aronoff didn’t interrupt her. He was listening. “There are two talents that… -
March 11, 2013
Steiner to give Wege Lecture
Achim Steiner, the leader of environmental programming at the United Nations, will talk about the challenges facing the global environment movement when he delivers the 12th Annual Peter M. Wege Lecture on Sustainability today (March 11).
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March 11, 2013
Doctors who adopt electronic health records may lose money
Physician offices that move to electronic health record systems, but don’t make additional changes in the practice to enhance revenue and cut costs for services no longer needed, stand to lose money, a U-M researcher says. And a $44,000 federal incentive to encourage conversion to EHRs may not be enough to prevent losses, particularly for…
