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October 29, 2012
Faculty Perspectives
Faculty Senate accepts opinion pieces This year, the Faculty Perspectives page in The University Record will highlight the work of several of the committees of the Faculty Senate and the work of faculty governance through the three campuses of the University of Michigan. The committees of the University Senate Assembly fulfill a regentally specified… -
October 29, 2012
New U-M mobile phone app helps track concussion recovery
A new mobile phone app, the first of its kind, helps concussion patients track their activities and symptoms, and share that information with their healthcare team. The app from U-M is called Return2Play. The app, available for 99 cents, is designed for iPhone and available for download on iTunes. Users can enter the date and… -
October 29, 2012
University names Academic Leadership Program fellows
Six faculty members have been named 2012-13 fellows in the Academic Leadership Program of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.
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October 29, 2012
U-M launches post-consumer food composting pilot in Michigan League
More online • Waste prevention goal > • We Care Organics > • More information on U-M Recycling & Composting efforts > Students, faculty and staff dining in the Michigan League can skip the trash cans and choose to compost food waste as part of a pilot program exploring post-consumer food composting on campus. Led… -
October 29, 2012
Genetic tradeoff: Harmful genes are widespread in yeast but hold hidden benefits
The genes responsible for inherited diseases are clearly bad for us, so why hasn’t evolution, over time, weeded them out and eliminated them from the human genome altogether? Part of the reason seems to be that genes that can harm us at one stage of our lives are necessary and beneficial to us at other… -
October 29, 2012
Shifting care from hospitals to outpatient centers could save millions
More and more outpatient surgical procedures are being done at nonhospital-based facilities such as freestanding ambulatory surgical centers and physician offices, instead of at hospital-based outpatient departments. A study published online last week in The Journal of Urology comparing the cost to Medicare of 22 urological surgical procedures performed in each setting showed ambulatory surgery… -
October 22, 2012
Exploring links between sustainable transportation and livable communities
More online Learn more about the Livable Communities through Sustainable Transportation initiative or the integrated assessment research process: • graham.umich.edu/ia/livable-communities.php • www.graham.umich.edu • or call John Callewaert at 734-615-3752 Two research teams funded by the Graham Sustainability Institute will spend the next 15 months investigating how different transportation policies, technologies and consumer travel choices can… -
October 22, 2012
Don’t miss: Symposium examines role of translation in study of human rights
How does the interdisciplinary study of human rights translate bodies into evidence? How are recent technological advances in forensics, new media and methods of quantification transforming what counts as evidence? A public symposium “Translating Human Rights: Bodies of Evidence,” from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday in Room 1636 at the School of Social Work… -
October 22, 2012
U-M researcher awarded 2012 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
A U-M researcher is among 16 scientists from universities across the country named as 2012 recipients of the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Sarah Aciego, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences in LSA, and atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences in the College of Engineering, will receive… -
October 22, 2012
Public sector unions made most concessions in contract negotiations
Local government leaders in Michigan report that their employees’ unions made concessions in negotiations this year more frequently than the jurisdictions did on pay, benefits, staffing and work rules, according to a U-M survey. By far, the biggest giveback according to the poll by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy was on fringe…
