University of Michigan

Talk with Don Lund, winner of 9 varsity letters at UM, member of the University of Michigan Hall of Honor and the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame and Major League baseball player. Also meet James Irwin, author of this exciting biographical look at one of Michigan's most talented and honored at...

This provocative exhibition is comprised of two "bone books" made of horse skeletons and covered in hand-written texts, burnished in gold leaf, and shod in silver shoes. Three bridled horse skulls inscribed and leafed become cabinets for ephemeral objects and imagery clasped in the ha...

Science and Technology Investments and Policy in the Obama Administration" Speaker: Kei Koizumi, Assistant Director, Federal Research and Development, Executive Office of the President Commentator: Jason Owen-Smith, Associate Professor of Sociology and Organizational Studi...

By Matt_Aaronson Ann Arbor police are looking for two suspects in connection to an alleged assault in a Forest Street parking structure early this morning that left a 20-year-old University of Michigan student hospitalized with a broken jaw.

Susan D. Blum, Professor of Anthropology at Notre Dame, will talk about her recent book "My Word: Plagiarism and College Culture." She brings an anthropologist's eye to the high incidence of academic dishonesty reported in national surveys of college students and argues that understan...

By rachel_vangilder This is a gentle reminder from your friends at the University of Michigan Library in response to the coverage of the copyright infringement case against the local shop Excel (Excel Test Prep loses lawsuit over copyright infringement, 10/30/2009). The University Library acquires thro...

By lindsay_kramer Chinese dignitaries and University leaders came together at the University of Michigan Museum of Art yesterday to hear and see ethnic Chinese music and performances to commemorate the official opening of the University’s Confucius Institute.

By emily_barton As a recent graduate of Penn State University and a resident of Erie, Penn., I decided to make the four-hour drive to Ann Arbor this weekend to watch my Nittany Lions. It was my first time traveling to a road game, and I must say that my trip to the University of Michigan set the bar extremely high...

Synthetic Genomics: Options for Governance" Speaker: Michele Garfinkel, Policy Analyst, J. Craig Venter Institute Commentator: William K. Hall, Adjunct Professor of Strategy, University of Michigan Ross School of Business Sponsored by The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation Co-Sp...

Six nationally-known experts in the field of information technology security will speak at SUMIT_09, an annual symposium hosted by the office of Information Assurance at the University of Michigan. This event will be webcast live the day of the event and recorded. To view the webcast, vi...

By Jillian_Berman In hopes of spurring more innovation from faculty and researchers, the University is launching the Michigan Venture Center, a “one-stop hub for University of Michigan technology,” according to Jim O’Connell, the associate director for business formation at the University’s Offic...

Panel discussion with Richard Barnes, Scott Hocking, and Michael Stafford (Director, Cranbrook Institute of Science), moderated by Daniel Herwitz (Director, Institute for the Humanities) Abstract: There are ruined cities that, sitting idle, become museums of natural history. An...

The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship and MPowered present Robert Wolfe, Co-Founder of Moosejaw, "No One Knows What They're Doing Including Me." The presentation will be all question-answer focusing on anything from Michigan football, general trivia, the growth o...

By Gary_Graca Since their arrival at Michigan, Rodriguez and his staff have received a great deal of criticism. But the criticisms regarding his program’s values, principles and ethics are simply unwarranted. These criticisms, including the recent allegations that Rodriguez’s staff exceeds NCAA...

Hear two neuropsychologists address issues including AD/HD and Executive Functioning. Free and open to the public! Roger E. Lauer, Ph.D. is the director of the Center for Neuropsychology, Learning and Development in Ann Arbor, MI. He is formally trained as a clinical neuropsychologist. In...

In a long series of articles the Chicago Tribune has ignited a major firestorm over preferential admissions at the University of Illinois. Not the sort of preferential admissions we usually follow here, but preferential admissions nevertheless. As summarized in the Chronicle of Highe...

 MI by Pete Bigelow | The Ann Arbor News Sophomores Lion Kim and Alexander Sitompul led the University of Michigan men's golf team during the first round of the Wolverines' first NCAA championship appearance in 12 years. The pair each shot a 1-over-par 72 ...

The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com, MI by John Heuser | The Ann Arbor News The week before the University of Michigan men's golf team competed in the NCAA Southwest Regional tournament in Austin, Texas, the Wolverines played a practice round at Toledo's Inverness Club, which happens to be ...

 MI by Kevin Ryan | The Ann Arbor News The University of Michigan softball team essentially needed one inning to exorcise three years of demons and disappointment in the NCAA Tournament. A four-run rally in the third inning staked the No. ...

 MI Don Grimes, an economist who focuses on Michigan manufacturing at the University of Michigan, overall likes what he's seen from Obama. He hopes the president will stimulate purchases of state-of-the-art machinery through tax breaks and ramp up ...

by Dan Meisler | Ann Arbor Business Review The University of Michigan is planning a 2200-seat soccer stadium to be built around one of its three newly constructed fields behind the Varsity Tennis Center on South State Street. The fields were completed ...

Michigan Business Review - MLive.com For the past 10 years I've been working at the interface between industry and academia, serving as a corporate relations representative for the University of Michigan. I received my engineering and economics degrees from UM, and then applied those ...

Paulus confirmed that he spent Tuesday on the campus at the University of Michigan and has also been contacted by several NFL teams and also college programs about the possibility of playing one year of football. "It's all happened so fast," Paulus ...

By rss@youtube.com (OSMichelsen1986) This is a video for Otto's Michelsen application into University of Michigan. Unfortunately I didn't have great equipment for doing this so the end of the presentation got cut out. Here is the script for the video: Hi my name is Otto Michelsen. Im 22 years old and live in Reykjavik Iceland. I cur...

by Art Aisner | The Ann Arbor News University of Michigan police will review the on-ice conduct of two Michigan State University hockey players involved in ... UM police still mulling charges in on-ice, off-ice incidents Detroit Free Press

As the biggest undergraduate school on campus, it offers the widest variety of courses. New majors or minors also should be created to give students more ... Norovirus suspected of sickening 15 at University of Michigan Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com

 IN - Jan 8, 2009 Indiana University is the only other university within the state included the “best value” survey. The University of Michigan joins Purdue and IU as the ... Two Indiana Schools on 'Best Value' List Inside INdiana Business (press release) all 121 news articles

By Compiled by USCHO Staff After Germany gained its second goal of the game, Matt Rust (Bloomfield Hills, Mich./University of Michigan) carried the puck from the U.S. end, broke between two German defenders at the blueline, and scored with one second left in regulation to account for the 8-2 final.

By Jake(noreply@blogger.com) Considering the way this team was treated throughout the season by media and fans alike, it’s highly unlikely that it will. Student-athletes might get applauded for simply giving it their best at Eastern Michigan but that doesn’t happen at the University of Michigan. At Michigan, you get...

By Mike Millikin Skerlos is working with Panos Papalambros, mechanical engineering; Rich Gonzalez, psychology; James Jackson, Institute for Social Research; Meredith Fowlie, economics and public policy; Duncan Callaway and Greg Keoleian, School of Natural Resources and Environment; and Walte...

By Jon “Giving Barack Obama an official helping hand are Susan Crawford,  well-known blogger, professor of law at the University of Michigan and and not-so-well-known viola aficionado, and Kevin Werbach, assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at the University of Penns...

By Jon 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

ANN ARBOR – University of Michigan athletic director Bill Martin on Tuesday placed his full support behind first-year football coach Rich Rodriguez, whose leading a team that's off to its worst start in four decades and is coming off one of the most stunning losses in program history to T...

By noreply@blogger.com (Peter Suber) The project is called HathiTrust, and so far it consists of the members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a consortium of the 11 universities in the Big Ten Conference and the University of Chicago, and the 11 campuses in the University of California system. The University o...

By Eric Zorn Last Saturday, I was thrilled to be a graduate of the University of Michigan. The athletic department, student government officials and others in the administration formed a task force last summer to address the issue of increasing fan unruliness, Peterson said.

The names and locations are all accurate, based on the 1928 Toledo City Directory, on pre and postgame reports published in The Blade, and on the all-time letter-winners listing and the all-time assistant coaches’ roster in the University of Toledo’s 2008 football media guide. But the c...

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...

Opponents of affirmative action have argued that drastic drops indicate that universities are making changes significant enough to comply with affirmative action bans. Viewed in this light, one can't help but wonder [since “drastic drops” did not occur at Michigan] how much effort th...

Housing costs to raise more than 5 percent next year  MI - The University of Michigan has one of the highest housing rates, with an annual rate of $8630 under review. Statewide, only Saginaw Valley State University ...

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...

By ONI Contributed by ONI on 2/7/08 Mos Def and his Big Band put on a show January 21 at the University of Michigan titled: A Tribute to J Dilla in honor of the late hip hop producer who passed away almost two years ago. Interestingly, this concert was hosted by the normally hip-hop free University Mu...

A top team of about 25 cardiac researchers, lured to the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. ... State, Oakland firms pursue more military work Michigan Business Review - MLive.com

For the first time in nearly 40 years, a football coach will be introduced at the University of Michigan who is not homegrown, who has not already bled his maize and blue.

Bloomberg has a fascinating article today about a discrimination lawsuit against the University of Michigan law school, “a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by a professor who says he was denied tenure because he is openly gay.”

By Mohamed Taher Research Guide - From the University of Michigan. Wayne State also uses it. Looks good. Was updated in 2006. Was just concerned about how to set up the authentication stuff. LibData - from the University of Minnesota. ...

By Nestor The saddest part, though, and perhaps the most damning, is that this has all been countenanced by the fan base at large. No Michigan alumnus or fan--not me, not my friends, not other "haters" who speak out of frustration and not malice--wants to see the school compromise its values or eleva...

Brain drain' is not Toledo's only problem  OH - Michael O'Brien is a Toledo native who attends the University of Michigan, where he is editor-in-chief of the Michigan Review. He is also a summer intern at ...

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'...

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.

My guest for this week's podcast is John Wilkin. He's the director of the University of Michigan Library's technology department, and coordinator of the library's joint digitization project with Google. It's been two years since Google began partnering with the University of Michigan...