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Humanities and Arts
The Things They Carried
U-M professor examines the items people bring to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall and their reasons for doing so, reported in an article in the Fall 2009 issue of LSA Magazine. [Read more...]
The Unwitting Lexicologist
Professor Sarah Thompson never suspected her life's work would be to record an endangered native language before it is lost forever. Here is her story, as reported in the Fall 2009 issue of LSA Magazine. [Read more...]
Underwater Archaeology
Exploring the bottom of Lake Huron for signs of ancient human life
The bottom of Lake Huron is filled with more than shipwrecks—there are also clues left behind from ancient man. LSA Professor of Anthropology John O’Shea found archaeological evidence of a 9,000-year-old hunting culture in the depths of Lake Huron, in collaboration with U-M Professor Guy R. Meadows, Director of U-M’s Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratories. [Read more...]
A Very Loud Number
Essay by Stephen Forrest, Vice President for Research
Occasional Essays, No. 2 [PDF]
Search & Discovery Home
By now, many have heard that the University of Michigan broke the $1,000,000,000 threshold for research expenditures in Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09). Indeed, by National Science Foundation accounting, U-M has moved into third place for research expenditures by U.S. universities in 2008 (the latest year for which such numbers are available). Only the University of California at San Francisco and the University of Wisconsin rank higher.
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Celebrations to mark the opening of new wing at U-M’s Kelsey Museum
As an undergraduate in the 1930s, Edwin Meader saw rare artifacts, pottery and sculpture, excavated by U-M scholars in the Mediterranean and Near East, being delivered to what was then called the Museum of Classical Archaeology (later the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology) and said to himself "these things deserve a better place." In 2003, a gift of $8.5 million from the late Edwin and Mary Meader created that better place, funding construction of a new 20,000 square-foot wing. Named in honor of Mary's grandfather, the William E. Upjohn Exhibit Wing will open to the public with a celebration from 2-5 p.m., Nov. 1. U-M Provost Teresa Sullivan, Terrence J. McDonald, dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Sharon Herbert, director of the Kelsey Museum, will begin the celebration with a dedication and ribbon cutting at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Maynard Street entrance to the new wing. A public reception and self-guided tours will follow the ceremony.
U-M hosts week-long exploration of role of body in making art
In the latest incarnation of innovative arts exploration, the University of Michigan's Arts on Earth presents "Arts & Bodies," a week-long series of performances, talks and happenings that aim to provoke a rethinking of the vital connection among the arts, education and societal values. The series of programs begins Nov. 1. All events are free and open to the public. "With the many economic problems affecting people, we think it's timely to explore ways the arts can help us gain some perspective," said Theresa Reid, executive director of Arts on Earth, a university-wide initiative in creative work and learning directed by the deans of arts and engineering on U-M's North Campus. [Read more...]
Zell Lurie Institute awards student entrepreneurs more than $50,000 in grants
The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business has announced the recipients of the Fall 2009 Eugene Applebaum Dare to Dream Grant Program, where students apply for funding to advance their innovative, high-potential business concepts toward launch. The 30 grant recipients submitted projects that range from a light sport aircraft design and manufacturing firm to an online fundraising platform for performers to a stationary bicycle that generates electricity. [Read more...]
“Behind-the-Scenes” Days at U-M museums, archives, more
The University of Michigan is inviting the community to look behind the scenes of its Museums, Archives, and Libraries on Friday, October 9 and Saturday, October 10. Tours of collection areas, conservation laboratories, exhibit preparation areas, and other spaces not usually open to the public. The free events are part of a city-wide celebration of arts, science and culture that includes Ann Arbor's annual Art Walk, a chance to tour the city's galleries and meet the artists. [Read more...]
BioArtography - BioArt Exhibit
BioArtography is an exhibition running Sept. 30, 2009 to Oct. 20, 2009 in the Duderstadt Center Gallery. It is organized by the Center for Organogenesis in the Medical School. The Center brings together scientists from many fields to study organ formation, function and disease. The goal of their research is to use new information to design effective strategies to treat disease and repair damaged organs. In the course of this work, scientists use the microscope and colored stains to look at tissues for changes that could affect our health. These tiny biological structures are often beautiful and are now being shared through this exhibition, a fascinating combination of art and science. [Read more...]