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February 18, 2013
U-M expert to help Gallup review political polling methods
U-M professor Michael Traugott, a nationally recognized expert in political communication and polls, is assisting the Gallup Organization with reviewing its survey methodology used in political polling. The polling organization tracks attitudes and behaviors worldwide on many topics, including the U.S. presidential elections. Traugott will examine the recent election in which Gallup estimated a stronger… -
February 18, 2013
Secret rendezvous: Geladas conceal monkeying around from leader males
Humans who cheat on a loved one aren’t the only ones to change their behavior to avoid discovery. New research documents for the first time how wild gelada monkeys tactically conceal their infidelity from dominant leader males. Researchers documented how gelada monkeys conceal infidelity. Photo by Thore Bergman. Researchers from U-M, University of the Free… -
February 18, 2013
Institute for Research on Women and Gender offers collaborative grant
For more than 18 months, researcher Michelle McClellan collaborated with two U-M colleagues on a project about gender and addictions. It wasn’t until receiving a “vote of confidence” through an Institute for Research on Women and Gender grant that the team was able to move to the next stage of realizing their goals. “This grant… -
February 18, 2013
In memoriam: Dr. Charles Krause, former chair of Otolarynology
On Feb. 7, the U-M community and the field of otolaryngology lost one of its greatest leaders, Dr. Charles J. Krause. He died in Florida, surrounded by his family. Krause served as chair of the Medical School’s Department of Otolaryngology from 1977, when he was recruited to Michigan, until 1992. He remained active on the… -
February 18, 2013
Early breast cancer diagnosis, survival rates low in rural India
Women in developed countries survive roughly 10 years longer after a breast cancer diagnosis compared to women in poor-to-middle-income countries, a new U-M study suggests. The report demonstrates the lack of access to good health care faced by women in poor countries, said the study’s principal investigator Rajesh Balkrishnan, an associate professor at the U-M… -
February 18, 2013
Old school: U-M in History
A Creation of My Own
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February 18, 2013
Sunlight stimulates release of climate-warming gas from Arctic permafrost
Ancient carbon trapped in Arctic permafrost is extremely sensitive to sunlight and, if exposed to the surface when long-frozen soils melt and collapse, can release climate-warming carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere much faster than previously thought. U-M ecologist and aquatic biogeochemist George Kling and his colleagues studied places in Arctic Alaska where permafrost is… -
February 18, 2013
Engaging with Detroit: Students live, study and work in the Motor City
U-M’s Semester In Detroit program is entering its fourth year and has become quite popular. The comprehensive program’s three pillars requiring students to live, study and work in Detroit, totally immerses students in a city most of them know little about.
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February 18, 2013
Turning repulsive feelings into desires
Hunger, thirst, stress and drugs can create a change in the brain that transforms a repulsive feeling into a strong positive “wanting,” a new U-M study indicates. The research used salt appetite to show how powerful natural mechanisms of brain desires can instantly transform a cue that always predicted a repulsive Dead Sea Salt solution… -
February 18, 2013
U-M celebrates three Sloan Fellowships for research
Three U-M professors are among the 126 early-career scientists and scholars from the United States and Canada selected as 2013 Alfred P. Sloan research fellows.
