STAFF SPOTLIGHT
Mary DeYoe, on UMMA’s goal: “To be a place … where students can be comfortable surrounded by art.”
EVENTS
- Singer-storyteller Tiana Marquez with pianist David Gitterman, 12:10 p.m. Feb. 18, University Hospital Main Lobby.
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Screenwriting professor Jim Burnstein, left, tells an audience of 100 that film incentives are helping talented young people stay in Michigan to make art, likening this moment to the start-up of Motown. U-M's Film Office and Department of Screen Arts and Cultures hosted the latest meeting of the Michigan Film Commission Advisory Council, led by Emery King, second from left. State Film Office Director Janet Lockwood, far right, said 52 films were made in Michigan last year, seven of which shot on U-M's campus. Photo by Scott Soderberg, U-M Photo Services.
Collaborative effort ferries student veterans through launch of new GI Bill
Thousands of student veterans around the country found themselves squeezed between implementation delays and real-world deadlines for tuition, books, rent and food when the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act (the "New GI Bill") went into effect in August 2009. But not at U-M, where a multidepartmental group teamed up to deliver support to student veterans.
Smallest commercial-class, solar-powered sensor developed
A 9-cubic millimeter solar-powered sensor system developed at U-M is the smallest that can harvest energy from its surroundings to operate nearly perpetually.
Plans taking shape for 50th anniversary of Peace Corps
As preparations are being made locally and nationally to celebrate 50 years of the Peace Corps, those at the university where the idea was sparked are seeking stories from faculty, staff and students who served as volunteers, staff or consultants in the program.
2011 federal budget has increases for science, education
Even as President Obama announced plans to freeze most non-defense discretionary spending for the next three years, he proposed a fiscal year 2011 budget last week that increases funding for scientific research agencies, economic development activities, and several education programs of interest to U-M and the higher education community.
Three to receive Goddard Power award; psychology department to be honored
Cindy Schipani, Elizabeth Duell and Carol Jacobsen will receive the 2010 Sarah Goddard Power Award and the Academic Women’s Caucus selection committee will present the Rhetaugh G. Dumas Progress in Diversifying Award to the Department of Psychology. The 26th annual awards ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. Feb. 17 in the Michigan League Hussey Room.
Student Nurses Association raising funds to help Haitian peers
On Feb. 20, the U-M Student Nurses' Association will sponsor the third annual Hope for Haiti Charity Ball to raise money for a nursing school in Haiti that was co-founded by Ruth Barnard, associate professor emerita of nursing at the U-M School of Nursing.
Smock selected to direct ISR Population Studies Center
Sociologist Pamela Smock has been appointed director of the Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research (ISR).
Collaborative effort helps student veterans with new GI Bill
A multi-departmental group helped U-M student veterans avoid being squeezed between implementation delays and real-world payment deadlines when the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act took effect in August.
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