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January 28, 2013
Photo: Women dentists exhibit at Sundecuse Museum of Dentistry
Jessie Castle LaMoreaux was only woman in her 1896 U-M dental class. After starting her first dental practice at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, she followed her sister to Dallas in 1897 and was the first woman dentist to practice in Texas. The photo, circa 1900, is presented in the Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry… -
January 28, 2013
Chancellor outlines decade of growth at UM-Flint
Chancellor Ruth Person reviewed a decade of great progress on the UM-Flint campus, and outlined a vision for the future in a "state of the university" speech Jan. 23. She concluded her address with an announcement that she would step down in 2014, after a one-year extension of her five-year term as chancellor.
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January 28, 2013
Facilities coordinator makes teddy bears to preserve memories
Several years ago, Mary Kay Pauley started sewing teddy bears. At first it was just to keep up her lifelong passion for sewing. But when approached to make a bear out of a newborn baby’s crib sheet, the bears took on an entirely new and greater purpose. Through word of mouth, “Kay’s Bears” has kept… -
January 28, 2013
Search opened to applicants for campus security director
The development of a comprehensive Division of Public Safety and Security for the Ann Arbor campus takes a step forward this week as the search for the first executive director of the new division is opened to interested candidates.
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January 28, 2013
High school jobs: Impact is different for whites and minorities
African American and Hispanic students are less likely than whites to work part-time in high school, according to a U-M study. But those who do hold jobs tend to work longer hours, and are less likely to suffer negative consequences. Those are among the findings of a new analysis of data on nearly 600,000 10th-… -
January 28, 2013
Michigan Almanac tracks the numbers that define U-M
The Michigan Almanac, a systematic compilation of information about university operations, is being introduced as the “go-to” Web document for anyone interested in data about the university.
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January 28, 2013
MLK photos
Activist and educator Angela Davis speaks Jan. 21 in the Michigan Union Rogel Ballroom. Photo by Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography. Students from Kappa Sigma and Theta Phi Alpha build storage sheds at Habitat for Humanity as part of MLK Day activities at UM-Flint. Photo by Mel Serow, UM-Flint. MLK Jr. speechwriter Clarence Jones addresses the… -
January 28, 2013
East Quad and North Quad to include new living experiences
University Housing is introducing two new living experiences for students in the fall of 2013.
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January 28, 2013
R&D spending growth for URC surpasses other leading U.S. research clusters
More info Read the sixth annual URC Economic Impact Report > Michigan’s University Research Corridor generated $15.5 billion in economic impact statewide, exceeded $2 billion in annual research expenditures and awarded more than 31,600 degrees in one year, placing it at or near the top of seven university innovation clusters in the U.S., according to… -
January 21, 2013
Epidemiologist connects U-M students, China’s disease prevention centers
Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography. Dr. Matthew Boulton doesn’t speak Chinese, but that didn’t stop him from founding the School of Public Health’s China Scholar Exchange Program. At dinner with a former health department colleague in Beijing several years ago, Boulton drew up the outlines for the program on a dinner napkin, and…
