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An Insider's Guide to Law School Admissions:
Original at UM*Events
• 3 hours ago
University of Chicago, University of Michigan, and University of Pennsylvania Admissions' Deans and audience review three applications and select the best candidate for admission. Sponsored by the Career Center, LSA Academic Advising, BULA, DGP, MPLS, KAP
PROFS Lecture Series 2009 -- Dr. Randolph Nesse
Original at UM*Events
• 3 hours ago
Randolph Nesse, MD --Professor: Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Michigan --Director: Evolution and Human Adaptation Program --Current research focus: How election shapes mechanisms that regulate defenses such as pain, fever, anxiety and low mood. His work emphasiz...
Mud Bowl a hit at Michigan homecoming
Original at Outsports.com
• 7 hours ago
By Cyd Zeigler jr. Autumn came to the University of Michigan this weekend, and so did I. My partner’s 10th dental school reunion drew us back for homecoming. Ann Arbor is a lovely little town, especially with the light cool breeze that October brings. ...
Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
Original at UAF New Collections
• 9 hours ago
Publisher: Ann Arbor : The Museum, 1969-; Call Number: GN2.M52 NO.1; Content Note: No Note;
Aunt Mid's Continues to Deny Lettuce E. coli Victims in Michigan ...
Original at Marler
• 9 hours ago
By marler@marlerclark.com (E. coli Lawyer) Michigan Department of Community Health linked the outbreak to Aunt Mid’s after clusters of illnesses emerged, including nine Michigan State University students and three University of Michigan students who ate at campus facilities. ...
Third hoops recruit commits to Wolverines
Original at Detroit Free Press
• 14 hours ago
United States - Matt Vogrich, a senior shooting guard out of Lake Forest (Ill.) High School, has verbally committed to the University of Michigan to play basketball. ... POLICE BEAT The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com all 5 news articles
Research spending rises at University of Michigan
Original at WJR
• 16 hours ago
MI - ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The University of Michigan is reporting record spending on research. The university said Monday that research spending reached $875.8 ...
Michigan links outbreak to Detroit’s Aunt Mid’s
Original at The Packer
• 16 hours ago
KS - nine Michigan State University students and three University of Michigan students who ate at campus facilities and five inmates at Lenawee County Jail. ... Aunt Mid’s to resume processing after oubreak The Packer all 2 news articles
Libertarian challenges Hieftje in Ann Arbor mayor's race
Original at MLive.com
• 17 hours ago
MI - I've had some catching up to do," said Plourde, a University of Michigan student and a Libertarian who is on the Nov. 4 ballot. Plourde, the only opponent ...
UMHS named one of 100 best places to work in health care
Original at U
• Sun, Oct 5
MI - ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Often ranked as the best place for patients to get medical treatment, a new national ranking names the University of Michigan Health ...
POLICE BEAT - The Ann Arbor News
Original at MLive.com
• Sat, Oct 4
POLICE BEAT The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com, MI - Residents in an University of Michigan dorm woke up Saturday morning around 11 am to find an unknown man in their room. According to a crime alert sent out ...
Proposal 2: Limits slow science at the University of Michigan
Original at MLive.com
• Sat, Oct 4
MI - by Tracy Davis | The Ann Arbor News Alan Warren | The Ann Arbor NewsStem cell researcher Sue O'Shea, standing, and Crystal Pacut, a research technician, ... Limits slow science at UM The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com all 11 news articles
Carty: Hopes fade that defense can carry Michigan
Original at MLive.com
• Sat, Oct 4
MI - by Jim Carty | The Ann Arbor News If the University of Michigan defense was simply bad, you'd just be willing to chalk up Saturday's 45-20 blowout against ...
University of Toledo alumnus had role in rescue of space station
Original at Toledo Blade
• Sat, Oct 4
OH - He finished his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan. There were three people on the space station plus another seven aboard the docked Space ...
UT, Livonia hospital link to train doctors
Original at Toledo Blade
• Fri, Oct 3
OH - And St. Joseph will continue to host medical students from the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. UT is likely to have some residents do ...
• Letter: Weisers' generosity characteristic of couple - The Ann Arbor News
Original at MLive.com
• Thu, Oct 2
• Letter: Weisers' generosity characteristic of couple The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com, MI - by Beth Fitzsimmons | Ann Arbor I enjoyed your recent article regarding the gift that Eileen and Ron Weiser gave to the University of Michigan. ...
UM's second wind
Original at MLive.com
• Thu, Oct 2
MI - BY JOHN HEUSER In the first half, the University of Michigan football team gives up points by the bushel. In the second, the Wolverines become stingier than ... Lopata has (up)right focus as Michigan kicker Mirror all 3 news articles
Zaragon deal means Ann Arbor bank building positioned to become ...
Original at MLive.com
• Thu, Oct 2
MI - by Dan Meisler | Ann Arbor Business Review The former NBD Bank property near the University of Michigan campus is positioned to become the next entry in the ...
Economics department at the University of Michigan plans panel ...
Original at MLive.com
• Wed, Oct 1
MI - by The Ann Arbor News A group of economists and financial executives will gather Friday at the University of Michigan to discuss the ongoing US financial ... UM financial crisis panel offers chance to get explanations Michigan Business Review - MLive.com all 2 news articles
University of Michigan Office of Technology to showcase inventions
Original at MLive.com
• Tue, Sep 30
MI - by Tina Reed | The Ann Arbor News At first glance, University of Michigan researcher Jay Guo's invention just might look like a small newspaper printing ... UM Tech Transfer Helps Launch 13 New Companies In Fiscal Year WWJ all 3 news articles
U. Mich. Battery Spin-Off Lands $3.0M in State Funding
Original at Green Car Congress
• Fri, Sep 26
By Mike Millikin Sakti3, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based spinoff of the University of Michigan, received a $3 million grant from the Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) to establish a Center of Energy Excellence focused on next-generation lithium battery technologies and processes. As part of the award, the U...
Skip the LSAT, Head Straight to Law School!
Original at WSJ.com
• Thu, Sep 25
By Dan Slater The Web site says: The Law School’s in-depth familiarity with Michigan undergrad curricula and faculty, coupled with significant historic data for assessing the potential performance of Michigan undergrads at the Law School, will allow us to perform an intensive review of the under...
Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Original at UM*Events
• Tue, Sep 16
Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman will offer the keynote at a day-long event focused on making green power the next great global industry. The event, bringing together and recognizing Michigan's leading alternative energy companies, feat...
Watching The Eye for Signs of Diabetes Changes
Original at Medgadget.com
• Fri, Jul 18
University of Michigan researchers are trialing a new in-house device that detects retinal flavoprotein autofluorescence, a potential indicator of the presence of diabetes-induced retinal metabolic changes, such as early diabetic retinopathy. Metabolic stress, and therefore d...
EXTRA!! Michigan Sky Did Not Fall!
Original at Discriminations
• Wed, Jun 18
That editorial was presumably a response to recently released information revealing that the sky in Michigan did not fall as a result of the passage of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. The preliminary admission number for the freshman class represents a decrease of approximately...
Michigan Daily Fears Equality, Implies Minorities Fear Equality, Encourages Lawlessness
Original at Discriminations
• Mon, Jun 16
Here’s an idea: perhaps the student liberals at the University of Michigan could, following the example of Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, urge University officials to emulate Alabama Gov. George Wallace and stand in the door, refusing to follow the law.
OAMI Whammy
Original at Discriminations
• Mon, Apr 21
You might think that one place where such officially sanctioned racially exclusive activities would no longer be permitted is the University of Michigan, after the passage in 2006 of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. But if you did, you’d be wrong.
Opinion: Bad News (Oklahoma) And Good News (Michigan)
Original at Discriminations
• Tue, Apr 8
Sander’s article had included an analysis of data the University of Michigan had produced in the Gratz and Grutter litigation. Sander’s findings demonstrated that the University of Michigan Law School actually gave greater weight to race than did Michigan’s undergraduate college. Sa...
Flexible “Principles” At The Univ. Of Michigan Law School
Original at Discriminations
• Mon, Dec 17
The school backed off from that strategy after faculty members raised concerns, said Hammer’s attorney, Philip Green of Ann Arbor. University President Mary Sue Coleman didn’t return telephone calls. Of course she didn’t. She’s too busy proclaiming Michigan’s undying devotion to “div...
The Real Corner Turner
Original at Bruins Nation
• Sun, Dec 9
By Nestor
Enrollment Numbers Show U. of Michigan Softened Impact of Proposal 2
Original at Chronicle of Higher Education
• Fri, Nov 2
The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor said today it had managed to avoid a steep decline in the number of black, Hispanic, and Native American students in this fall’s entering freshman class, the first to be admitted after Michiganders voted a year ago to amend their state’s Constituti...
Opinion: Michigan Loss: The Bruin Angle
Original at Bruins Nation
• Tue, Sep 4
By Nestor
Some US universities install foot baths for Muslim students - International Herald Tribune
Original at International Herald Tribune
• Tue, Aug 7
• 3 related articles
Some US universities install foot baths for Muslim students France - Aug 7, 2007 By Tamar Lewin DEARBORN, Michigan: When pools of water began accumulating on the floors in some bathrooms at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, ...
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Carl Pope: Consider the Source
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, Jul 31
By Carl Pope Detroit, MI -- For over a decade the Sierra Club has made the pilgrimage to Detroit Metropolitan Airport, to meet with the auto industry, the leadership of the UAW, and with Michigan political figures. And always with the same message:...
Study: Conflicts for stock analysts remain common - Indianapolis Star
Original at Indianapolis Star
• Mon, Jul 30
Study: Conflicts for stock analysts remain common United States - Management professor James Westphal of the University of Michigan and accounting professor Michael Clement at the University of Texas sent 4500 ...
New study shows analysts getting favors - San Jose Mercury News
Original at mercurynews.com
• Fri, Jul 27
New study shows analysts getting favors San Jose Mercury News, USA - For their study, management professor James Westphal of the University of Michigan and accounting professor Michael Clement at the University of Texas sent ...
Microsoft customer satisfaction rating falls
Original at Seattle Times
• Tue, May 15
The American Customer Satisfaction Index, from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, found customer satisfaction with Microsoft fell during the past year. This is the second year the index, a broad tracker of "customer evaluations of the quality of products and servic...
University of Michigan Giving Up Students to the RIAA
Original at Gizmodo
• Thu, Mar 15
Bad news for students at the University of Michigan. At least twelve of you are in the process of being identified to the RIAA, according to Paul Howell, Chief Information Technology Security Officer of the University. Why's Paul giving you up? Read the letter after the jump.
RIAA Publishes Piracy’s Top 25
Original at WebProNews
• Fri, Feb 23
By Joe Lewis 1. Ohio University - 1,287 2. Purdue University - 1,068 7. Michigan State University - 753 8. Howard University - 572 15. Boston University - 470 16. Northern Michigan University - 457 18. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - 400 21. Indiana University - 353 25. Marshall University - 331
Harvard poised to name woman president
Original at The News Journal
• Sat, Feb 10
In its 371-year history, Harvard University has been led by puritans and patriots, by clergymen and congressmen. But so far, the country's oldest and wealthiest university has never been led by a woman. That seems likely to change, in what would be a landmark for women in academia. Harvard'...
SPO and UM Press release Best of Technology Writing
Original at lib.umich.edu
• Wed, Jan 3
The University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office are proud to announce the publication of the first annual The Best of Technology Writing 2006 and the opening of nominations for The Best of Technology Writing 2007.
Business People
Original at The News Journal
• Thu, Oct 26
Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP in Wilmington announced the addition of six attorneys to the firm: Richard J. Bauer, Amy M. Cunningham, William E. Green Jr., Amaryah Kishpaugh, Ian Roberts McConnel and Justin B. Shane. Bauer, a graduate of the University of Michigan, served as a rese...
University Joins Google Library Project
Original at CIO Today
• Fri, Oct 13
Google launched the controversial project, originally called Google Print, last November in impressive fashion with complete collections from Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library. The Google Way
Google Adds Library, Expands Edu Offerings
Original at WebProNews
• Thu, Oct 12
Google took another step toward the company's stated goal of indexing the world's information by adding the entire collection of public domain historical resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library to its Google Books Library Pr...
Another perspective on the cost of college
Original at Columbia Daily Tribune
• Thu, Aug 31
I also know that Big 12 is a traditional reference group for MU, but the best public schools in the nation are mostly outside that reference group -- University of Michigan, University of Maryland, University of Washington, University of California system, University of North Carolin...
Tuition increases moderate
Original at USA Today
• Wed, Aug 30
A typical freshman headed for a public flagship university in his or her home state this fall will pay about $5,838 in tuition and fees, suggests USA TODAY's annual survey of 75 top schools in 50 states. The median increase among schools studied was 6.4%.Although costs to families are still o...
'Any violation could result in a disaster'
Original at USA Today
• Tue, Aug 29
After fire killed Georgetown University senior Daniel Rigby in a basement furnace room that he rented as a bedroom, Washington, D.C., inspectors found 10 safety code violations in the row house.Their citations ranged from too much junk to blocked exits. Such safety problems are common in f...
Haunted Places in Michigan
Original at Juicee News Daily
• Tue, Jul 11
By Landon Howell Marquette - Northern Michigan University - Halverson Hall room 304 - It has been rumored that a ghost has been sited in room 304 of Halverson hall at Northern Michigan University. It was believed that the person hung themselves from their loft.
University of Michigan study shows drop in teen smoking
Original at MLive.com
• Mon, Dec 19
MI - and use of illicit drugs has been declining, but abuse of prescription painkillers continues to be a worry, according to a University of Michigan study. ... U of M News Service (press release) - Washington Times - all 318 related
Black freshman enrollment increases at University of Michigan
Original at Detroit Free Press
• Wed, Oct 26
Minority enrollment at the University of Michigan is bouncing back after taking a hit following the US Supreme Court decision that invalidated the school's ... Black enrollment seen rebounding at University of Michigan Contra Costa Times