News Releases

Calling all cars: U-M takes center stage in safe transportation

bernied@umich.edu (Bernie DeGroat) — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:31:43 -0400

The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute will begin equipping safety technology on vehicles that will allow them to send and receive messages—messages that someday will prevent crashes.

'Fertilizing' bone marrow helps answer why some cancers spread to bones

baileylm@umich.edu (Laura Bailey) — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:36:37 -0400

Researchers found that administering a common chemotherapy drug before bone tumors took root actually fertilized the bone marrow, enabling cancer cells to seed and grow more easily.

U-M Board of Regents meeting May 17 in Dearborn

llessnau@umich.edu (Laura Lessnau) — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:53:56 -0400

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The University of Michigan Board of Regents will have its monthly meeting at 3 p.m. May 17 at the Fairlane Center, UM-Dearborn campus.

Dance performance in four sites along downtown Ann Arbor route

fproven@umich.edu (Frank Provenzano) — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:55:43 -0400

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 7 p.m. each night June 7-9, 2012.

EVENT: "Corsets, Grains, & Greenways: Dancing Downtown Ann Arbor"

Consider this a case of how dancers make a social statement.

As audiences walk along a four-block route in downtown Ann Arbor to watch dancers perform in historic buildings, alleys, sidewalks, and in a garden, the hope is for observers to ask, "What if there were a greenway to connect these spaces to the outlying neighborhoods?"

Educational reform in China topic of public lecture

Mon, 14 May 2012 16:12:54 -0400

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 4 p.m. May 22, 2012

EVENT: Gong Ke, head of the delegation and president of Nankai University, will present a public lecture, China's Higher Education: A New Phase of Reform and Development. Gong will offer an update on efforts to reform Chinese higher education during one presentation of the Michigan-China University Leadership Forum, now in its fifth year.

New twist on ancient math problem could improve medicine, microelectronics

ncmoore@umich.edu (Kate McAlpine, Phone: (734) 647-7085, E-mail: kmca@umich.edu) — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:41:15 -0400

A hidden facet of a math problem that goes back to timeworn Sanskrit manuscripts has been exposed by nanotechnology researchers at U-M and the University of Connecticut.

Stockholders vote GOP regardless of market performance

bernied@umich.edu (Bernie DeGroat) — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:52:59 -0400

Americans who own stock tend to vote Republican even if they're losing money in the stock market under a GOP president, say University of Michigan researchers.

Power to the professors: A bold, new way to fund research begins at U-Michigan

ncmoore@umich.edu (Nicole Casal Moore) — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:08:52 -0400

A first-of-its-kind, real-time research funding initiative at the University of Michigan puts $15 million into the hands of professors to jumpstart new projects they believe in.

Construction of new rock spawning reefs will help Great Lakes native fish

ericksn@umich.edu (Jim Erickson) — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:47:33 -0400

The first of nine rock reefs is under construction in the St. Clair River delta northeast of Detroit. The goal of the project, which is led by Michigan Sea Grant, is to boost populations of rare native fish.

U-M's Center for Geospatial Medicine receives federal innovation award to study diabetes

Tue, 08 May 2012 21:00:41 -0400

The Center for Geospatial Medicine at the University of Michigan is working to reduce death and disability from Type 2 diabetes under a grant announced today as part the nation's 2010 health care law.