February 25, 2013
Lead exposure in early childhood has been linked to lower performance on state achievement tests for many Detroit Public School students in several grades, researchers from the School of Public Health and colleagues report. The researchers also found lower scores for children who had been exposed to lead at levels below the federal threshold. In…
February 25, 2013
The Board of Regents Feb. 21 approved the renovation of West Quadrangle residence hall as well as the architect’s design for major improvements to South Quadrangle that would create a Central Campus dining center. Both projects are part of the Residential Life Initiatives (RLI), a planned capital program launched in 2004 to improve university housing…
February 25, 2013
Known as the first of its kind in the nation, U-M’s Council for Disability Concerns marks its 30th anniversary in 2013 by drawing public attention to the surging number of “invisible” disabilities, among a range of initiatives. Formed in 1983 by President Harold Shapiro, the council advocates for upgrades to university facilities, programs, and policies…
February 25, 2013
Jeffrey Mirel, David L. Angus Collegiate Chair at the School of Education and professor of history at LSA, has been elected to the National Academy of Education. Mirel, who also is a faculty associate in the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and in the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, is one of…
February 25, 2013
Less than three years after the first person moved in, U-M has transformed a vacant former pharmaceutical company campus into a vibrant hub for research — an achievement marked this week with the move of the 2,000th person to the site. Last week, a former Harvard University researcher and his team unpacked their laboratory equipment…
February 25, 2013
Imagine if your home had walls filled with water, toilets that composted their own waste and a roof capable of disinfecting water through the sun’s ultraviolet rays. This vision may become a reality for one Ann Arbor home, as a group of students from the College of Engineering work to retrofit a 100-year-old Victorian to…
February 25, 2013
Traces of water have been detected within the crystalline structure of mineral samples from the lunar highland upper crust obtained during the Apollo missions, according to a U-M researcher and his colleagues. The lunar highlands are thought to represent the original crust, crystallized from a magma ocean on a mostly molten early moon. The new…
February 25, 2013
Police Beat is a monthly feature of the Record. The next publication will be March 18.
February 25, 2013
As cities across America work to reduce violence in tight budget times, new research shows how they might be able to target their efforts and police attention — with the help of high-powered computers and loads of data. In a newly published paper, Medical School researchers and their colleagues have used real police data from…
