“Self Portrait” by Andrea Judd, is among works presented in the K-12 Student Art Exhibition by Ann Arbor Public Schools 8 a.m.-8 p.m. in the Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1, through Feb. 8.
The university’s 24th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium is drawing a nationally known journalist, award-winning filmmakers and other prominent communicators as it opens this week and continues through January.
A toolkit designed by the Sexual Assault Prevention & Awareness Center (SAPAC) as a response to sexual assault and domestic violence has garnered national attention.
David Brandon has been named director of the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, pending approval by the Board of Regents at its regularly scheduled Jan. 21 meeting.
The university is a partner in a new statewide fellowship program to prepare teachers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), as highlighted last week by President Barack Obama.
U-M now is metro Detroit’s second-largest employer behind Ford Motor Co., according to the Crain’s Detroit Business 2010 Book of Lists. A year ago, Crain’s listed the university fourth behind the Big Three automakers.
U-M inventors have secured $11 million in financing to launch Ann Arbor-based HistoSonics Inc., which will develop a novel medical device that uses tightly focused ultrasound pulses to treat prostate disease.
A cell type that causes significant scarring in lung disease appears to have a similar effect in Graves’ disease. The cells, called fibrocytes, are present at a higher than normal frequency in patients with Graves’ disease, according to a new study, the first to associate fibrocytes with this autoimmune disease.
Anna Ercoli Schnitzer, on her greatest passion: “Working to improve the physical and virtual accessibility to all of our community, regardless of individual physical or mental challenges.”
The lopsided solar car named Generation, unveiled Tuesday, might be the oddest-looking vehicle the top-ranked U-M team has ever built. But the bold shape is a calculated effort to design the most efficient car possible.
