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Posted 8/29/08
U-M welcomes ‘exceptional’
Class of 2012
University leaders welcomed members of the Class of 2012 during New Student Convocation Aug. 28. The 6,000 entering students are “from one of the most well-qualified pool of applicants we have ever had,” Ted Spencer, associate vice provost and executive director of Undergraduate Admissions, told the Crisler Arena audience that included many of the new students and their families. More >
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Posted 8/22/08
U-M sets fall move-in days for Aug. 26-29
To prepare for increased traffic from new and returning students, the University and City of Ann Arbor Move-in Task Force have set the main move-in days for Aug. 26-29.
Working in conjunction with the City of Ann Arbor, University Housing has established move-in plans that will ease traffic congestion on and around campus, and will help to reduce traffic delays. More >
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Posted 8/19/08
Mosher-Jordan, Hill Dining Center open new doors for campus living
 When students begin moving into the completely renewed Mosher-Jordan Hall this week, they will live in air-conditioned rooms, have access to wireless Internet and the ability to choose from seven food stations in the adjoining new Hill Dining Center. Mosher-Jordan Hall, which opened in 1930, has been completely upgraded, yet the gracious traditional architectural style and details have been preserved. Connected to the back of the hall, the new Hill Dining Center features the marketplace concept in campus dining, offering state-of-the-art display cooking of fresh cuisine. The visually dynamic design creates an open, airy setting with large glass windows. More >
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Posted 8/25/08
Long-term study shows effect of climate change
on animal diversity
Two species of giraffe, several rhinos and five elephant relatives, along with multitudes of rodents, bush pigs, horses, antelope and apes, once inhabited what is now northern Pakistan. But when climate shifted dramatically there some eight million years ago, precipitating a major change in vegetation, most species became locally extinct rather than adapting to the new ecosystem, an extensive, long-term study of mammal fossils spanning a five-million-year period reveals. More >
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Posted 8/18/08
Stadium meets deadline
for season open
The $226 million Michigan Stadium renovation and expansion project started the week after the last home football game in 2007. And while the work will not be completed until 2010, the stadium is being put back together now for fans to watch the 2008 season of Wolverine football. More > |
Posted 8/18/08
Women and war: The toll of deployment on physical health
More than 80 percent of a sample of Air Force women deployed in Iraq and other areas around the world report suffering from persistent fatigue, fever, hair loss and difficulty concentrating, a study indicates. The pattern of health problems reported by 1,114 women surveyed in 2006 and 2007 is similar to many symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome, the controversial condition reported by veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. More >
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Posted 8/18/08
Genes may play significant role in nicotine addiction
Anyone who has ever tried smoking probably remembers that first cigarette vividly. For some, it brought a wave of nausea or a nasty coughing fit. For others, those first puffs also came with a rush of pleasure.
A new study links those first experiences with smoking, and the likelihood that a person is currently a smoker, to a particular genetic variation. The finding may help explain the path that leads from that first cigarette to lifelong smoking. More >
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Posted 8/11/08
Poverty expert to lead School of Social Work
Laura Lein, a poverty expert at the University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as dean of the School of Social Work, pending approval by the Board of Regents. President Mary Sue Coleman and Provost Teresa Sullivan, in consultation with the board's Personnel, Compensation and Governance Committee, announced Lein's appointment, which is effective Jan. 1. More >
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Posted 8/11/08
Diversity, aspirations nurtured
at camps
The summer sun streams through windows of a U-M lab as 10 ninth-grade girls program small robots to move along black lines on a white background, during a special summer camp offered by the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program. The camp is one of many presented at U-M with the goal of exposing young people to college and help them see higher education as part of their futures. More >
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11:15 AM August 29, 2008
