Brad Polk's freshman class "The Human Mind and Brain," part of the freshman seminar series, has focused on subjects including mad cow disease, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and Tourette's syndrome. Polk's class is featured in Michigan’s World Class, worldclass.umich.edu. The new website celebrates teaching and learning at U-M by telling stories of how schools and colleges and, more importantly, the faculty in them, are challenging today’s students in new ways. Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography.
For the 13th year in a row, U-M has earned a spot on the Peace Corps’ annual list of the top volunteer-producing large universities across the country.
New discoveries of the earliest inscriptions written in the Greek alphabet, which help reveal how the Greeks developed the English alphabet, are the focus of Richard Janko’s inaugural lecture as the Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies in LSA.
U-M will host a Midwest regional town hall Tuesday where findings of the recently released draft National Climate Assessment will be presented.
Higher education would get a funding increase for a second year in the state budget proposal unveiled Feb. 7 by Gov. Rick Snyder.
Life Sciences Institute researcher Yukiko Yamashita has received a $500,000 award from the W.M. Keck Foundation for a project that explores how stem cells can distinguish between two seemingly identical copies of chromosomes during asymmetric cell division.
Nancy Butler Songer, professor of science education and learning technologies at U-M, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project at the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan during March 2013, according to an announcement from the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
A new initiative on career development that will help U-M staff to take more responsibility for their career aspirations is being piloted this year.
Jeri Hollister, program assistant, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, on her sculptures, “I started drawing horses again, and they were very abstract, so I thought I’d try making my drawings three-dimensional.”
Countertenor David Daniels performs in Handel’s concert opera “Radamisto,” 4 p.m. Feb. 17, Hill Auditorium.
The lopsided solar car named Generation, unveiled Tuesday, might be the oddest-looking vehicle the top-ranked U-M team has ever built. But the bold shape is a calculated effort to design the most efficient car possible.
