July 23, 2012
Mark Hershberger, leader of Global Jazz Project and jazz performer and composer for more than 40 years, leads his group in a noon-1 p.m. performance Thursday at the University Hospital Courtyard. Hershberger was mentored and has performed with top local musicians including Harold McKinney, Jimmy Allen, Marcus Belgrave and Ed Sarath. His history also includes…
July 23, 2012
ISR internship symposium • Noon July 31 at ISR-Thompson Room 6050 • Free and open to the public • More information about the ISR Survey Research Center Summer Internship program > An internship program that provides students with hands-on experience designing, conducting and analyzing surveys is celebrating its 10th anniversary July 31 with a symposium…
July 23, 2012
Lester Monts, senior vice provost for academic affairs, and Louis Yen, professor with the U-M Confucius Institute, recently were named honorary professors of the University of Science and Technology Liaoning, China, by its president Qiubo Sun, who said he expected future collaboration between U-M and USTL. Monts and Yen also were both named honorary professor…
July 23, 2012
The U-M Library recently announced that the California Digital Library (CDL), one of the world’s largest digital research libraries, is joining its grant-funded effort to identify public domain volumes from among the more than 10 million volumes that reside in HathiTrust. The library’s copyright determination work first began in 2008 with a National Leadership Grant…
July 23, 2012
A professor recognized by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers as one of the “100 Engineers of the Modern Era” has been appointed the new director of the Energy Institute and the inaugural DTE Energy Professor of Advanced Energy Research. Mark Barteau, who currently is at the University of Delaware, will join U-M on Sept.…
July 23, 2012
The U-M Hospitals and Health Centers offer the best care in Michigan and some of the nation’s best care, according to a new ranking from U.S. News & World Report. The results mark the 18th year in a row that U-M has been named to the honor roll of “America’s Best Hospitals,” this year with…
July 23, 2012
Dr. Gerald Charbeneau Dr. Gerald Charbeneau, who chaired the School of Dentistry’s Department of Operative Dentistry from 1969-86, died July 2. He was 86 years old. Charbeneau earned his dental degree from the School of Dentistry in 1948 and received a master’s degree in pediatric dentistry in 1949. That year he also went into part-time…
July 23, 2012
College students’ beliefs about same-sex relationships can be shaped by their church’s teachings, but some are willing to oppose their religion’s position on the issue, a new U-M study indicates. And this can influence students’ views about same-sex marriage. Researchers looked at whether or not respondents’ religion taught that homosexuality was a sin and students’…
July 23, 2012
For the fourth consecutive year, film experts and students from U-M will contribute to the Traverse City Film Festival, July 31-Aug. 5. Drawn from the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, faculty members will serve as jurors for both feature films and documentaries in the U.S. and foreign film categories as well as short films.…
