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Humanities and Arts
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...]
U-M committee will advise about the transfer of culturally unidentifiable human remains
University of Michigan Vice President for Research Stephen Forrest announced formation of a new advisory committee on culturally unidentifiable human remains (CUHR). The group will advise Forrest on issues related to requests U-M receives from Native American tribes for the transfer of CUHR and funerary objects from the Museum of Anthropology, and which may involve application of NAGPRA—the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act which provides a mandatory process for returning culturally affiliated human remains and associated funerary objects to individuals and groups. "I appreciate the willingness of these distinguished individuals, who represent a variety of academic backgrounds, to bring their broad experience and scholarly perspectives to this sensitive and complex issue," Forrest said. [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...]
Exhibition examines museums and what they preserve
Richard Barnes, the Institute for the Humanities’ 2009 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts, presents innovative new work inspired by the University of Michigan Exhibits Museum’s paleontology and anthropology collections, and the Museum of Zoology’s ornithology collection. In this unique installation, Barnes considers the nature of things from collection and display to extinction. [Read more...]
Composer Takes Inspiration from the Highways and Byways of America
Michael Daugherty, professor of composition at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, is mentor to some of today’s most talented young composers. One of the most commissioned, programmed, and recorded composers on the international scene today, Daugherty, whose music has entered the orchestral, band, and chamber music repertoire, is one of the ten most performed living American composers, according to the League of American Orchestras. Walking around Daugherty’s Ann Arbor studio is like getting a glimpse into the mind of the composer. It’s all there, all those American cultural icons that inspired works like Metropolis Symphony, MotorCity Triptych, Sunset Strip, Jackie O, Dead Elvis—and probably even some still to be written. [Read more...]
U-M Responds to Challenges of State’s Fledgling Film Industry
In dramatic terms, the story of how the Michigan economy is diversifying to include a fledgling film industry resembles the end of act 1 of a 3-act play. The challenge now is whether there is public patience—and political will—to cultivate the state’s growing reputation as a “film friendly” place, and plant the seed for a new film industry in Michigan to compete with production centers around the world. [Read more...]
U-M joins other leading research universities to launch futurity.org
A group of leading research universities has launched Futurity (www.futurity.org), an online research channel covering the latest discoveries in science, engineering, the environment, health and more. The University of Michigan is one of 35 partners supporting the project. Given the changes occurring in the news business, the partner universities are looking for ways to share important breakthroughs with the public in a new and direct way. [Read more...]