October 1, 2012
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
October 1, 2012
Uninsured residents of Livingston County and surrounding areas who need health care have a new option to turn to every Saturday afternoon: a free medical clinic run entirely by Medical School students. The students, and U-M faculty physicians, volunteer their time to provide free primary care each week at a storefront clinic in Pinckney. The…
October 1, 2012
A large puppet — the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex — hangs from the ceiling of a concrete room, accompanied by similar puppets that annually perform on the streets of Ann Arbor during the carnival-esque event called FestiFools. The puppet holds a carrot in one claw, and a chocolate bar in another, with Mark Tucker,…
