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September 16, 2013
Equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter to deliver Vivian R. Shaw Lecture
Equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter to deliver Vivian R. Shaw Lecture at 7 p.m. Oct. 2 in Rackham Auditorium.
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September 16, 2013
Ten U-M doctoral candidates named Dow Sustainability Fellows
Ten doctoral students from six schools and colleges at U-M have started the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program, marking the first cohort of interdisciplinary Ph.D. fellows in this innovative program, which launched in spring 2012.
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September 16, 2013
School of Information students to work on solving global problems
Working on a smartphone application to book train tickets for Mumbai local trains. Designing a language learning application for deaf students in India. Creating an online repository for consultation for human rights for a Bangalore lawyers collective. These are just some of the projects University of Michigan students will be able to work on, thanks… -
September 16, 2013
U-M remains strong in U.S. News rankings
The university continues to rank near the top in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the nation’s best undergraduate colleges and universities. The 2014 rankings were released online last week at www.usnews.com. U-M maintained its ranking as the No. 4 public university and was ranked at No. 28 among the nation’s best… -
September 16, 2013
U-M again top U.S. public university in world rankings
More online View the full list of rankings. U-M once again is listed as the top U.S. public university in the QS World Rankings for 2013, and is ranked 22nd among all institutions worldwide. The university ranked 17th in the 2012 survey. The QS World University Rankings, launched in 2004, are based on six factors:… -
September 9, 2013
Bollywood, Hollywood and Law come together in a mini seminar
The savory smell of samosas mingled with the Hindi spoken by the actors on the big screen and laughter of the audience. If you closed your eyes, you could easily imagine yourself at a movie theater in Mumbai. The class "Hollywood, Bollywood and the Law: The Globalizing Entertainment Industry" is taught by professor Vikramaditya Khanna and met for a mini seminar course six times during the academic year.
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September 9, 2013
New laser-based tool could dramatically improve the accuracy of brain tumor surgery
A new laser-based technology may make brain tumor surgery much more accurate, allowing surgeons to tell cancer tissue from normal brain at the microscopic level while they are operating, and avoid leaving behind cells that could spawn a new tumor. In a new paper, featured on the cover of the journal Science Translational Medicine, a… -
September 9, 2013
U-M technical reports examine hydraulic fracturing in Michigan
University of Michigan researchers last week released seven technical reports that together form the most comprehensive Michigan-focused resource on hydraulic fracturing, the controversial natural gas and oil extraction process commonly known as fracking.
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September 9, 2013
Learning how the brain takes out its trash may help decode neurological diseases
Imagine that garbage haulers don’t exist. Slowly, the trash accumulates in our offices, our homes, it clogs the streets and damages our cars, causes illness and renders normal life impossible. Garbage in the brain, in the form of dead cells, must also be removed before it accumulates, because it can cause both rare and common… -
September 9, 2013
EarthFest 2013: Party for the Planet
The campus community will continue its annual tradition of partying for the planet at EarthFest, Sept. 19 on the Diag.
