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May 2008 | Home
In 1866, when U-M regents argued that women were not persons in the eyes of the law, Alice Boise started sneaking into class — and outperforming the men.
The gender gap is alive and unwell in heart disease, with women differing from men on everything from symptoms to treatment in both heart attack and severe chest pain.
From 'menu' to 'barista' to 'evoo,' cooking and foods provide one of the quickest way for English to heap new words onto its plate.
…is here. The digital age has changed the way movies are filmed and distributed. It's made new content possible. And it's made at least some actors obsolete.
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With the Big House under construction, U-M's graduating seniors found a singularly beautiful spot for commencement: the Diag.
Brain-training efforts designed to improve working memory can also boost scores in general problem-solving ability and improve "fluid intelligence," considered one of the most important factors in learning.
Shanna Singh Hughey and her husband have been traveling the globe for nearly a year. What have they learned about the world and America's place in it? Read her thoughts, and watch a slideshow.
New U-M research suggests that the sex hormone estrogen may be for women what testosterone is for men: The fuel of power.
It would be nice to think we're beyond this. But just as female penguins mate with males who bring them pebbles to build egg nests, and hummingbirds mate to gain access to the most productive flowers, even affluent college students will attempt to trade sexual currency for provisions. So says a study by public health researcher Daniel Kruger. 
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| Michigan undergrads dig into real-world research. click image for slideshow |
U-M hosts a vast array of lectures, debates, performances and events each year — if only a person could get to all of them. Now there is a way to catch a special guest speaker or take in a compelling lecture from anywhere in the world. Michigan on iTunes U launched last week at www.itunes.umich.edu.
We all know work follows us home and messes with our sleep. But it's the everyday problems — rather than long hours, night shifts or job insecurity — that tend to keep us awake. That's the finding of a U-M study of some 2,300 U.S. adults that monitored the same workers for up to a decade.
The mouse is a stalwart stand-in for humans in medical research, thanks to genomes that are 85 percent identical. But a stunning U-M study finds that identical genes may behave differently in mouse and man. The results have implications for the use of mouse models in studying human disease, because what applies to one may be irrelevant to the other.
