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Improving Road Safety: Lessons From Europe
ANN ARBOR—Tougher drunk driving laws, lower speed limits and stricter seat belt laws are the best ways to reduce traffic deaths in the United States, say researchers at the University of Michigan...
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Institute of Medicine Report Details Strategy For Monitoring Safety of Childhood
ANN ARBOR—A review of the available evidence underscores the safety of the federal childhood immunization schedule, according to a report released today by the Institute of Medicine. University of...
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Climate Change To Profoundly Affect The Midwest
ANN ARBOR—Climate change will lead to more frequent and more intense Midwest heat waves while degrading air and water quality and threatening public health. Intense rainstorms and floods will become...
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Parents Numb To Misuse Of Narcotic Pain Meds By Youth, New Poll Shows
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Despite data on rising rates of abuse and overdoses of narcotic pain medicines across all age groups, in a new poll from the University of Michigan, most parents said they are not...
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High School Jobs: Impact Differs For Whites And Minorities
ANN ARBOR—African-American and Hispanic students are less likely than whites to work part-time in high school, according to a University of Michigan study. But those who do hold jobs tend to work...
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Report Highlights U-M’s Sustainability Achievements
ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan shows immense growth and engagement in sustainability education, research and operations, according to a new report designed to track and measure progress....
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Local leaders: Funding Reforms Needed To Avoid Service Cuts
ANN ARBOR—Local government leaders in Michigan report that the way their jurisdictions are funded requires significant reform to maintain services in the wake of the Great Recession, according to a...
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Payroll Tax Hike Narrows January Gains In Consumer Confidence
ANN ARBOR—Consumer confidence began to improve in January following the uncertainty generated by the fiscal crisis, according to University of Michigan economist Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson...
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Popular Drug-Carrying Nanoparticles Get Trapped In Bloodstream
ANN ARBOR—Many medically minded researchers are in hot pursuit of designs that will allow drug-carrying nanoparticles to navigate tissues and the interiors of cells, but University of Michigan...
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U-M To Host Lecture On The Future Of Medicaid
DATE: 1-2:30 p.m. Feb.18, 2013 EVENT: “Fractious Federalism and the Future of Medicaid” In a free public event, health policy experts Frank Thompson and Scott Greer will discuss the challenges...
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Robotic Helicopter Technology Wins Top Prize at Michigan Clean Energy Venture...
ANN ARBOR—A team of University of Michigan graduate students won the $50,000 top prize in the Michigan Clean Energy Venture Challenge for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, judges announced...
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Lessons From Cockroaches Could Inform Robotics
ANN ARBOR—Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their legs what to do, researchers have found. These new insights on how...
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A Better Bone Marrow Transplant: Preventing Graft-Versus-Host Disease
ANN ARBOR—Bone marrow transplant is a key treatment for patients with leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma and other blood disorders. University of Michigan researchers have discovered that inhibiting...
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Genetic Study of House Dust Mites Demonstrates Reversible Evolution
ANN ARBOR—In evolutionary biology, there is a deeply rooted supposition that you can’t go home again: Once an organism has evolved specialized traits, it can’t return to the lifestyle of its...
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Young Supernova Remains Found by U-M Astronomer
ANN ARBOR—The remnants of a supernova—among the youngest ever found in the Milky Way—have been discovered by a University of Michigan astronomer. The finding will enable astronomers to learn about the...
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Paint-On Plastic Electronics: Aligning Polymers For High Performance
ANN ARBOR—Semiconducting polymers are an unruly bunch, but University of Michigan engineers have developed a new method for getting them in line that could pave the way for cheaper, greener,...
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Prostate Cancer Risk Rises In Men With Inherited Genetic Condition
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Men with an inherited genetic condition called Lynch syndrome face a higher lifetime risk of developing prostate cancer and appear to develop the disease at an earlier age,...
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University of Michigan Experts Available to Discuss Latest Avian Flu
ANN ARBOR—As new cases of Avian flu, H7N9, are reported in China, the University of Michigan School of Public Health has several experts available to discuss various aspects of influenza including...
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Experts Propose Strategies to Reduce, End Tobacco Use
ANN ARBOR—What would it take to end tobacco use once and for all? This is the question several scholars, scientists and policy experts address in a provocative series of articles on various strategies...
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New Proposals For Redeveloping The Willow Run Area
EVENT: University of Michigan students will propose ways to redevelop the Willow Run area at a public event with local officials, business leaders and civic groups. The proposals involving...
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Useful Online Resources for Students looking for Education Worldwide
Quality Education is every ones desire and a lot of students are not able to identify the options available to them. There are various resources but not every student is able to reach to those...
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Being Social Creates Awareness Online Through www.beingsocial.info for...
Being Social is a Social Media Activists consortium which aims at promoting responsible use of Social Media in our day to day life. Its an initiative for fulfilling the desire of Discovery Education...
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Decoded: Molecular Messages that tell Prostate and Breast Cancers to Spread
ANN ARBOR—Cancer cells are wily, well-traveled adversaries, constantly side-stepping treatments to stop their spread. But for the first time, scientists at the University of Michigan have decoded the...
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U-M Ranks Seventh for Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows
ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan ranks No. 7 in the nation as a Peace Corps Paul D. Coverdell Fellows university in the 2013 rankings of top Peace Corps Master’s International and Coverdell...
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Financial Aid & Scholarship Resources
Here you’ll realize and guide to the numerous scholarship choices offered to national and international students. Scholarships are offered to in-state, out-of-state and international students for PhD,...
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A New Laser Paradigm: An Electrically Injected Polariton Laser
ANN ARBOR—Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have demonstrated a paradigm-shifting “polariton” laser that’s fueled not by light, but by electricity. Polaritons are particles that...
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U-M Sponsors Seminar on Low Great Lakes Water Levels
EVENT: “Low Great Lakes water levels: Understanding the causes and potential consequences” is a two-hour seminar and panel discussion about the drivers of decreased lake levels, as well as the...
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Latinos Disproportionately Sterilized For Decades in California
ANN ARBOR—Patients with Spanish surnames in California psychiatric institutions and homes for the developmentally disabled were disproportionately sterilized at rates ranging between 20 to 30 percent...
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U-M’s Abecasis Recognized in Annual Hottest Research Ranking
ANN ARBOR—For the second year in a row, Gonçalo Abecasis, the Felix Moore Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, has been named one of the most...
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U-Michigan Experts Available to Discuss Supreme Court Ruling on Human Gene...
ANN ARBOR— The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that human genes may not be patented. The University of Michigan has several experts available to comment on the implications of the ruling. Shobita...
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HathiTrust Partnership Expands Access to Library Collections
ANN ARBOR—The HathiTrust Digital Library will partner with the recently launched Digital Public Library of America to expand discovery and use of HathiTrust’s public domain and other openly available...
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U-M Experts Available to Discuss NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Case
ANN ARBOR—As the extradition case involving National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden continues to become more convoluted, University of Michigan experts are available to share their...
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Subconscious prejudice does not influence white opinion about Obama, policies...
ANN ARBOR-–A subconscious prejudice against blacks may not have an effect on how whites feel about President Obama or policies intended to benefit blacks, a new study indicates. “These findings differ...
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U-M’s entrepreneurial spirit creates mini business for Detroit nonprofit
ANN ARBOR—Daniel Williams leans over, putting his face within inches of a sheet of quarter-inch-thick glass and squeezes the glass cutter. A soft plunk sounds in his corner of Cass Community Social...
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A Snow Line in an Infant Solar System: Astronomers Take First Images
ANN ARBOR—Like the elevation in the Rocky Mountains where the snow caps begin, a snow line in a solar system is the point where falling temperatures freeze and clump together water or other chemical...
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New Executive Director Appointed at U-M’s Zell Lurie Institute
ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business will appoint Stewart Thornhill to executive director of the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies and...
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SPH Dean Philbert Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
ANN ARBOR—Martin Philbert, professor of toxicology and dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, has been admitted a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Located in Cambridge,...
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GVSU, WMU Join Forces for Study of Family Owned Businesses
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—The Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University and the Haworth College of Business at Western Michigan University have launched a study to explore the magnitude...
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Reducing Computer Viruses in Health Networks
ANN ARBOR—The hospital IT networks and medical devices that doctors rely on to treat patients are susceptible to their own maladies—computer viruses and other malware. Whether a bug accidentally finds...
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U-M Seeking Volunteers for U-M/Notre Dame Night Game
ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan Division of Student Life, the Athletic Department and the City of Ann Arbor are seeking volunteers to serve as community ambassadors for a football night game on...
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Long-Held Assumption About Emergence of New Species Questioned
ANN ARBOR—Darwin referred to the origin of species as “that mystery of mysteries,” and even today, more than150 years later, evolutionary biologists cannot fully explain how new animals and plants...
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Ten U-M Doctoral Candidates Named Dow Sustainability Fellows
ANN ARBOR—Ten doctoral students from six schools and colleges at the University of Michigan are starting the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program today, marking the first cohort of interdisciplinary...
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Third Century Initiative Funds New Round of Learning Projects
ANN ARBOR—Since coming to the University of Michigan in 2003, Anne Mondro has dedicated her research and studio work to discovering how creativity impacts health care, especially its effects on aging...
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Time to rethink misguided policies that promote biofuels to protect climate
ANN ARBOR—Policymakers need to rethink the idea of promoting biofuels to protect the climate because the methods used to justify such policies are inherently flawed, according to a University of...
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Vehicle Fuel Economy Drops in September
ANN ARBOR—Gas mileage of new vehicles sold in the U.S. reached an all-time high in August, but slipped to its lowest mark in nine months during September, say researchers at the University of Michigan...
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Maverick filmmaker’s collection joins Orson Welles and Robert Altman archives
ANN ARBOR—Perhaps more than any modern filmmaker, John Sayles personifies American individualism. From his 1979 directorial debut “Return of the Secaucus 7″ to his forthcoming release “Go for...
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Thunder Bay Marine Sanctuary holds huge untapped economic potential for...
The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Alpena is a unique natural marine environment and historic ship graveyard with the potential to be a major tourism and new business driver in northeastern...
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Revolution in Brain Science Demands Higgs Boson-Type Collaboration
ANN ARBOR—Social and life scientists from the University of Michigan and other universities are calling for a new model of cross-disciplinary collaboration to advance understanding of the human brain....
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Archiving mass atrocities gives victims a chance to uncover the truth
ANN ARBOR—Egyptian protesters feared security agents were shredding and burning documents of abuses under the Hosni Mubarak regime, so in March 2011 they stormed the former headquarters of the secret...
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U-M Jumps to No. 10 in Ranking of Schools with Most Students Abroad
ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan surged to No. 10 in a ranking of U.S. schools with the most students studying abroad in 2011-12—a big jump from the No. 16 spot last year, a key survey of global...
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