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October 8, 2012
Physician assistants to renovate home for fellow UMHS employee
To LaKeesha Talbert, becoming a homeowner doesn’t just mean having a nice place to live — it also means having more responsibility. Talbert, a patient services assistant at the U-M Health System, will be the recipient of this year’s Physician Assistants Week Habitat for Humanity renovation project, and for her, it’s an opportunity to take the next step in life as a homeowner.
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October 8, 2012
Old school: U-M in History
Rally draws Sen. Hart
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October 8, 2012
Smallest and fastest-known RNA switches provide new drug targets
A U-M biophysical chemist and his colleagues have discovered the smallest and fastest-known molecular switches made of RNA, the chemical cousin of DNA. The researchers say these rare, fleeting structures are prime targets for the development of new antiviral and antibiotic drugs.
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October 8, 2012
Obituary
Pauline Steele Pauline Steele, the second director of the dental hygiene program at the School of Dentistry from 1968 to 1988, died Sept. 13 in Columbus, Ohio, after an extended illness. She was 88. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Miami University in Ohio (1946), she managed a physician’s office… -
October 8, 2012
U-M, WSU grant aims to improve African-American health
A grant renewal of $2.7 million will enable the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research to continue its work to improve the health of older African Americans.
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October 8, 2012
Accolades
Rodney C. Ewing, Edward H. Kraus Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, has been named chair of the federal Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. The board was established to provide objective expert advice to Congress and the Secretary of Energy on technical issues and to review the technical validity of… -
October 8, 2012
$12.3M center aims to ramp up design of advanced materials
It takes between 10 and 20 years to develop a new material — an advanced metal alloy, for example, that can be used in lighter cars, trucks and airplanes. That’s too long, says John Allison, professor of materials science and engineering.
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October 1, 2012
Obituary
Pauline Steele Pauline Steele, the second director of the dental hygiene program at the School of Dentistry from 1968 to 1988, died Sept. 13 in Columbus, Ohio, after an extended illness. She was 88. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Miami University in Ohio (1946), she managed a physician’s office… -
October 1, 2012
School of Public Health tackles noncommunicable diseases in Latin America
Major health care problems associated with noncommunicable diseases like heart disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory conditions are not unique to the United States. In fact, non communicable diseases or NCDs are a concern across the globe, and are growing at an alarming rate in some developing regions like Latin America. The unprecedented increase can… -
October 1, 2012
U-M, EMU initiate reciprocal guest borrowing program
The U-M Library and Eastern Michigan University Library recently initiated a program that makes all current faculty, students and staff eligible for guest borrowing privileges at the other institution. Students and staff must first register at the circulation desk of their home institution — the Hatcher Graduate Library (U-M Ann Arbor), the Thompson Library (UM-Flint),…
