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Image: law school compU-M Law School receives $10 million gift for building project

Robert and Ann Aikens have made a $10 million gift to the University of Michigan Law School for the school's ongoing building expansion and renovation project.

Image: tv watcherSolitude contributes to a person's imagined intimacy with a TV character

If your best friend is a guy from "The Office" or a young doctor on "Grey's Anatomy," you may be relying too much on TV shows to fill a social void in your life.

image: stem cellU-M scientists win $6.8 million in federal stimulus-fund grants for stem cell research

University of Michigan researchers have been awarded 13 federal stimulus-fund grants to date, totaling $6.8 million, for research projects involving both adult and embryonic stem cells.

U-M among top in nation for producing Fulbright students, scholars

Image: Fulbright logoSeven University of Michigan scholars and 28 U-M students have been awarded Fulbright Fellowships for 2009-2010.

Being a standout has its benefits, study shows
 

Standing out in a crowd is better than blending in, at least if you're a paper wasp in a colony where fights between nest-mates determine social status.

That's the conclusion of a study by University of Michigan researchers published online this week in the journal Evolution.

Image: URC logoMichigan's URC rises in rankings: R&D, high tech climbs

Michigan's University Research Corridor has grown in all competitive categories over the past two years, rising among the nation's top research and development clusters for producing patents, businesses and graduates with high-tech related degrees.

 

 

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Shifts in consumer spending and saving will usher in a new economic era

Consumer spending will lag rather than lead the recovery from the current recession, according to University of Michigan economist Richard Curtin.

"In the coming years, U.S. consumers will save more and spend less," said Curtin, director of the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

 

2010 World Stem Cell Summit to be held in Detroit, co-hosted by Michigan's University Research Corridor

Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm announced that the 2010 World Stem Cell Summit will be held in Detroit and will be co-hosted by the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University.

U-M earns 9% annual investment return for the decade, beats the S&P 500

The University of Michigan's Investment Office, which marks its 10th anniversary this year, has a lot to celebrate. Despite a negative 23 percent return on investment in FY 2009, the university's 10-year annual investment return through fiscal year 2009 was 9 percent.

U-M & the health care debate

* Learn how a U-M proposal could change Medicare and save millions of dollars.
* Find out why a U-M expert says universal health care may not be the cure-all after all.
* Read about the university's experts featured in the news.

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U-M discovery about biological clocks overturns long-held theory

University of Michigan mathematicians and their British colleagues say they have identified the signal that the brain sends to the rest of the body to control biological rhythms, a finding that overturns a long-held theory about our internal clock.