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February 18, 2013
Police Beat
January 2013 crime map > Police investigation into sexual assault at West Quad still pending University police continue to wait for results from their investigation in the Jan. 13 report of a sexual assault at West Quad residence hall. A suspect was arrested and interviewed Jan. 19. He was released pending warrant authorization by the… -
February 18, 2013
Babies are born earlier and smaller when males are scarce
In communities where dad is more likely to be missing from the picture, more babies are born prematurely and of lower weight, according to a U-M researcher.
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February 18, 2013
Feeling down? Retail therapy helps beat the blues
Retail therapy often is lamented as wasteful and irresponsible, but new research from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business indicates that it can help alleviate certain negative emotions. No prior research has experimentally examined whether retail therapy can bring emotional benefits. Research from marketing professors Scott Rick and Katherine Burson and doctoral candidate Beatriz… -
February 11, 2013
Helping nanoscale carriers escape bloodstream during drug-delivery
Many medically minded researchers are in hot pursuit of designs that will allow drug-carrying nanoparticles to navigate tissues and the interiors of cells, but Michigan engineers have discovered that these particles have another hurdle to overcome: escaping the bloodstream. Drug delivery systems promise precise targeting of diseased tissue, meaning that medicines could be more effective… -
February 11, 2013
ORSP names associate director
Craig Reynolds has been named associate director of the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP). Currently the chief department administrator of the Department of Biological Chemistry, Reynolds has more than 20 years of research administration experience. He will join ORSP at the end of February where his responsibilities will be primarily focused on the… -
February 11, 2013
Information professor Michael Cohen dies at 67
Professor Emeritus Michael Cohen, a founding faculty member at the School of Information (SI) who retired a little less than a year ago, recently died at age 67 after a long and vigorous fight with cancer. His distinguished career at U-M included significant work in what is now the Gerald R. Ford School of Public… -
February 11, 2013
Trouble ahead: Fewer have retirement funds, more raid them
The proportion of working Americans with pensions of any kind has steadily decreased since 2001, according to a U-M analysis that suggests trouble ahead for U.S. seniors. “We expected to see a decline in the percent of employed workers with defined benefit pensions,” said U-M economist Frank Stafford. “Everyone knows they’re a thing of the… -
February 11, 2013
Creativity serves artist, CRLT program assistant
Placed on top of Jeri Hollister’s kitchen table is a small sculpture, the clay manipulated to create the strong curves of the well-defined muscles on a brown horse. “We had a bottomless sandbox in the backyard when I was a kid, and I used to dig down to the bottom where the soil was more… -
February 11, 2013
Mary Ingalls probably did not go blind from scarlet fever, U-M study says
In the beloved American stories of the Little House on the Prairie, author Laura Ingalls Wilder writes emotionally about how scarlet fever robs her big sister Mary of her sight. But in a new study published in the journal Pediatrics, U-M researchers found it is likely scarlet fever had nothing to do with Mary’s blindness.… -
February 11, 2013
Don't miss: Exhibit celebrates science research achievements
Much scientific research is published, but the best is represented on the front covers of journals. For the last five years the U-M Library, partner to researchers across campus, has celebrated U-M authors and scientists by displaying their framed and mounted journal covers in the Shapiro Science Library. This year, 18 new covers are the…
