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Coppola wins Carnegie/CASE U.S. Professor of the Year honor
Brian Coppola, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry, has been selected as a 2009 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Founded in 1981, the U.S. Professors of the Year Awards Program is the only national program specifically designed to acknowledge outstanding undergraduate teaching. Coppola was selected from more than 300 top professors in the United States. [Read more...]
U-M energy institute director tapped to help shape state’s wind future
Dennis Assanis, director of the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute at the University of Michigan, has been selected by Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to help shape the state’s strategy to harness offshore wind energy. He will serve on the Great Lakes Wind Council, an advisory body within the Michigan Dept. of Energy, Labor, and Economic Growth that provides citizens with a public forum to begin to identify where, in the Great Lakes, wind energy systems may be prudently sited. [Read more...]
U-M’s President Coleman named one of top ten university presidents
Time Magazine lists University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman as one of the nation's top ten university presidents. [Read more...]
UM professor recognized by Michigan Venture Capital Association
David Brophy, director of the Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, was honored Monday night with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual awards dinner of the Ann Arbor-based Michigan Venture Capital Association. In 1972, Brophy, who is also an associate professor of finance, founded the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium to help diversify the state’s economy away from its dependence on auto manufacturing. [Read more...]
Business Week ranks Ross School of Business one of all-around best
Business Week has announced that the Ross School ranks among the Top 10 for its part-time MBA (No. 5) and executive MBA (No. 7) programs and for its open enrollment (No. 8) and custom enrollment (No. 10) executive education programs for 2009. The Ross School currently ranks No. 5 for its full-time MBA program and No. 4 for its BBA program, according to rankings previously released by Business Week. The Ross School is currently the only business school worldwide to be rated among the Top 10 in all six of Business Week's biennial rankings of business school programs. [Read more...]
U-M professor selected as a Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching senior partner
Magdalene Lampert, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor in Education, has been selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as one of five senior partners who will guide the development of the program’s agenda. The first topic is expected to be high failure rates among students in developmental mathematics in community colleges. [Read more...]
U-M Cystic Fibrosis Center receives national award
People with cystic fibrosis can expect to live a longer life despite the genetic, life-threatening disease, because of advances made at the University of Michigan Health System. At the UMHS, patients’ life expectancy has doubled and patient numbers have increased significantly since the Cystic Fibrosis Center opened in the 1970s. This month, the UMHS’s Cystic Fibrosis Center received national recognition from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, an award that recognizes innovations in treatment, data collection, and innovation in quality of patient care and both clinical and basic research. [Read more...]
Era of Hope Award granted to U-M doctor
Five-year grant propels study of breast tumor suppression
A University of Michigan physician was selected for the Era of Hope Scholar Award from the U.S. Department of Defense to further studies of breast cancer prevention. Xiaochun Yu, assistant professor of molecular medicine and genetics at the University of Michigan Medical School, was awarded $3.7 million to expand research on new mechanisms associated with DNA damage response, treatment of breast tumors and prevention of tumor development in women who carry mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes. These genetic mutations are associated with a higher risk of breast cancer. [Read more...]
New NIH EUREKA awards fund highly innovative research, promise big payoffs
Four U-M faculty among 56 grantees
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $67.4 million to support highly innovative research projects that promise big scientific payoffs. The new awards are part of the EUREKA (Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration) program, which helps scientists test new, unconventional ideas or tackle major methodological or technical challenges. U-M recipients of EUREKA awards are Joseph Holoshitz (Medical School), Matthew B. Soellner (College of Pharmacy), Jon-Kar Zubieta(Medical School), and H.V. Jagadish (College of Engineering). [Read more...]
University among top schools in nation for Fulbright scholars, students
Seven U-M faculty scholars and 28 U-M students have been awarded Fulbright Fellowships for 2009-10. Among the faculty scholar winners, U-M’s Ann Arbor campus led the country in the U.S. State Department-funded Fulbright awards, along with Michigan State University and the University of Oregon, each receiving seven awards. UM-Flint also produced a Fulbright Scholar. U-M faculty scholars are: Alina Clej, Language and Literature; Janet Hart, Anthropology; Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Language and Literature; Kelly Ann Kowatch, Seminar Program; Diane Larsen-Freeman, TEFL/Applied Linguistics; Mary Jo Kietzman, Language and Literature; Carl Rodemer, Art; and Albert Shih, Engineering. [Read more...]