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October 1, 2012
Scholarship & Creative Work
Know how much you’re texting while driving? U-M study says no Texting while driving is a serious threat to public safety, but a new U-M study suggests that we might not be aware of our actions. Researchers found that texting while driving is predicted by a person’s level of “habit” — more so than how… -
October 1, 2012
U-M’s United Way campaign shows continued commitment
Today marks the launch of the 2012 U-M United Way Charitable Giving Campaign.
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October 1, 2012
Accolades
Rollin G. Johnson Jr., director of community partnership, Ginsberg Center, has received the Franklin H. Williams Award, presented to ethnically diverse returned volunteers who exemplify a commitment to community service and the Peace Corps’ Third Goal of sharing cultural exchange experiences to promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans. Kathleen… -
October 1, 2012
Disease advocacy has changed how medical research is funded
Patient-led advocacy has created a shift in the way the U.S. government prioritizes funding for medical research and has significantly changed the way policymakers think about who benefits the most from these dollars, says a public health researcher at U-M. In “Disease Politics and Medical Research Funding: Three Ways Advocacy Shapes Policy,” a paper published… -
October 1, 2012
NextProf workshop recruits minorities to consider academia
The NextProf workshop recently brought 53 Ph.D. students and recent doctoral graduates, and 20 presenters from around the United States, together at U-M to help diversify engineering academia. It was the first in a series of workshops designed to encourage women and underrepresented minorities to pursue careers as professors and help them succeed. NextProf sought… -
October 1, 2012
U-M group receives $13.6M grant to study breast cancer
As more breast cancers are diagnosed at an earlier stage, patients and doctors are faced with a growing challenge: How to effectively treat the cancer without overtreating the patient and causing unnecessary side effects and decreased quality of life. A new $13.6 million program award from the National Cancer Institute awarded to a national team… -
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),… -
October 1, 2012
Rec Sports brings team building skills to Japanese university
Representatives of the university’s Challenge Program in Recreational Sports recently traveled to Japan to provide team-building training to graduate students from St. Luke’s College of Nursing. John Swerdlow, senior assistant director of Recreational Sports, and Elizabeth Zollweg, director of operations of the Challenge Program, attended the three-day seminar hosted at a resort in Karuizawa, a…
