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July 2008 | Home
The first warm night of 1952. Music blares. Students' thoughts turn to love and fighting. Time to launch a national craze: the panty raid.
It may be in your head, but it's not your imagination. Cancer patients may find that chemotherapy causes cognitive problems.
Physics can clarify the energy crisis by getting back to basics.
Have you made up any words lately? There's no shortage of people who claim they have.
Some of the world's most spectacular movies are being made in Bollywood. But fewer really know what really sets these films apart.
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It's clearer now than ever: China is an indispensable country. U-M has just wrapped up its ChinaNow theme year, but its deep, ongoing relationship with the country, (dating to the 1880s), means that "every year is the year of China at U-M." That relationship offers a lens on some of the world's most intriguing and complicated issues. In this special report:
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Research News
Researchers say early intervention is the key to helping children with autism spectrum disorders, but the effectiveness of intervention with very young toddlers is unknown. U-M is joining Florida State University in a $7 million study to study early autism intervention, one of the largest studies of its kind and one of the first to explore intervention in children so young.
People in most countries around the world are happier these days. Data from representative national surveys conducted from 1981 to 2007 show the happiness index rose in an overwhelming majority of nations studied.
U-M biologists Shawn Xu, Alex Ward and Jie Liu have discovered that the C. elegans roundworm can detect and respond to light even though it does not have eyes. The finding could lead to new vision treatments. It also bolsters Charles Darwin's hypothesis for how the eye evolved from light-detecting cells.
Related story: We pay taxes to study worms?
Struggling to stretch your grocery money during the economic downturn? U-M dietician Holly Scherer offers tips for buying fruit, vegetables, meat for less money.
A low-power microchip developed at the U-M uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less in active mode than comparable chips now on the market.
U.S. firms that offshore customer service may save money on labor costs, but they also pay the price in terms of unhappy customers, say U-M researchers.
As the fall elections draw near, an innovative new University of Michigan research project is probing the values behind Americans' political decisions. The project Web site provides visitors with a chance to weigh in on a changing array of hot-button issues from polygamy to patriotism to same-sex marriage.
