“Carmine Conflux” by Michael Fowler is from his exhibit “Huescapes in Oil,” presented from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. through Aug. 13 at the Gifts of Art Gallery, University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1. Fowler is associate professor of design and computer graphics and serves as the Mary Durban Toole Chair of Art at the University of South Carolina in Aiken. Photo by Michael Fowler.
Since 1900, more than 200 Michigan students and coaches have participated in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, representing the U.S. and 23 other countries. As the Olympics return to London this summer, 26 current or former athletes and their coaches will be on hand for the competition.
In a move designed to fast-track more research from the lab to the real world, U-M was named one of two new nodes of the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps program, NSF officials announced July 18 at an I-Corps anniversary celebration in Washington, D.C.
U-M should mark its first 200 years with wide-ranging events, activities and initiatives that “celebrate our past, reflect on our present, and contemplate the exciting challenges that will likely redefine higher education during the university’s third century,” according to a report issued by the Bicentennial Planning Committee.
For the sixth consecutive year, U-M received a record number of applications from prospective freshmen: 42,535 applications for academic year 2012–13, an increase of 7.5 percent over the previous year’s record of 39,570.
Mobile technology tools like cell phones will be governed by a new universitywide policy that will take effect Jan. 1, 2013. Units may implement the policy anytime between now and the end of the calendar year.
New prescription drug plan ID cards will be issued in September as the university teams with MedImpact Healthcare Systems Inc. to administer its prescription drug benefit plan.
In an effort to develop more technologies that improve health care, U-M will establish a Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) with footholds in its top-ranked College of Engineering and Medical School, in an action approved by the Board of Regents July 19. The change takes effect Sept. 1.
Stefan Szymanski, the Stephen J. Galetti Professor of Sport Management in the School of Kinesiology, on what inspires him: "The emergence of a pattern from seeming chaos."
Fawwaz Ulaby, known nationally and internationally for his accomplishments in applied electromagnetics, is the Henry Russel Lecturer for 2014.
