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April 2008 | Home
Do you love the Diag, with its criss-cross paths and canopy of trees? If so, you have one man to thank. The story of Andrew White, who nurtured intellects and seedlings alike.
Allergies? Sinus problems? A good schnozz-cleaning is literally just what the doctor ordered. Here's how to do it.
Our language guru considers "signes of victorye" from the Stanley Cup to Ashton Kutcher.
Dudley Nichols gave John Wayne some of his best lines, and his screwball writing for Hepburn and Grant remains hilarious. If you want to know movies, you need to know about Nichols.
The US now incarcerates more people than any other country. More than one percent of the US population is behind bars. U-M profs say there's a better way.
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Keeping faithWhen students come to the university, they face a new world that can shake up their whole way of life. Some fear that even their religious faith will be under siege. But surveys - and students themselves, like Lizzy Lovinger (right) - say that keeping the faith is both a challenge and a blessing.
Having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women, according to a U-M study of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families. For men, the picture is very different: A wife saves men from about an hour of housework a week.
A six-inch robotic spy plane modeled after a bat would gather data from sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones and transmit information back to a soldier in real time. That's the Army's concept, and it has awarded the University of Michigan College of Engineering a five-year, $10-million grant to help make it happen. Image credit: Eric Maslowski, research computer specialist in the University of Michigan 3D Lab.
University of Michigan researchers are investigating a radical new design for cargo ships that would eliminate ballast tanks, the water-filled compartments that enable non-native creatures to sneak into the Great Lakes from overseas.
U-M's Josep M. Pares is part of a team that has discovered the oldest known remains of human ancestors in Western Europe. The fossil is about 1.2 million years old. That's 500,000 years older than the previous oldest known humanlike fossils from the area.
The university, the Michigan Paralyzed Veterans of America and the United States Department of Justice agreed today on a plan to enhance wheelchair accessibility at Michigan Stadium. The plan, to be incorporated into ongoing stadium renovations, will provide more and varied seating options for disabled fans and their companions.
With the housing market still skidding, consumers tightening their belts and the job market clearly weakening, the first half of this year will continue to be tough for the U.S. economy. But it gets better later this year and next, say University of Michigan economists.
New research shows that urban middle school students who felt safe in their neighborhoods were better able to resist instant gratification, and in turn engaged in fewer violent and other risky behaviors.
