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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… -
February 11, 2013
Old school: U-M in History
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February 11, 2013
Accolades
Nearly 100 of the U-M Medical School’s most-esteemed educators were honored with induction into The League of Educational Excellence at a recent inaugural dinner at the A. Alfred Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building. Many had been lauded previously as recipients of the Kaiser-Permanente Awards for Excellence in Teaching, or the Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical… -
February 11, 2013
U-M moves up on Peace Corps’ annual top colleges rankings
For the 13th year in a row, U-M has earned a spot on the Peace Corps’ annual list of the top volunteer-producing large universities across the country.
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February 11, 2013
Janko to explore origins of alphabet in talk
New discoveries of the earliest inscriptions written in the Greek alphabet, which help reveal how the Greeks developed the English alphabet, are the focus of Richard Janko’s inaugural lecture as the Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies in LSA.
