Ora Pescovitz, CEO of the University of Michigan Health System, which has more than 20,000 employees, said today that the U.S. can’t wait for politicians to fix the health care system. “Only we can improve the quality and safety of care,” she wrote, “because we are the people defining and delivering that care. More than anyone else, we see where there is unnecessary duplication, vulnerability for medical errors and barriers that reduce efficiency and effectiveness of care.”

There are few higher compliments on Broadway than being called a triple threat: a performer who can act, sing and dance to extraordinary effect. (Think of Hugh Jackman.) Michigan alum Darren Criss is the latest to strive for this status, and the producers of “How to Succeed” are betting on him to an unusual extent. They are spending tens of thousands of dollars to rehearse and pay Mr. Criss for just three weeks of performances this month, before he returns to “Glee,” in hopes of molding him into a theater star they might build a Broadway musical around someday.

Among the highlights of the new program is the hiring of Dr. Jeffrey Kutcher as the Director of the NBA Concussion Program. Dr. Kutcher, Associate Professor of Neurology at University of Michigan, is a leading authority in the field of sports neurology and the Chair of the Section of Sports Neurology for the American Academy of Neurology.

Four University of Michigan professors were recently ranked among the 121 most influential education scholars in 2012 by Education Week columnist Rick Hess. U-M School of Education professor David K. Cohen was dubbed the tenth-most influential education scholar in the nation, and SOE Dean Deborah Loewenberg Ball, who recently hosted U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for a roundtable discussion, was ranked 32nd on the list.

In addition to his Little League, high school and college coaches, Larkin credited late Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, who recruited him out of Cincinnati and then redshirted him as a freshman. “I was a better football player than a baseball player at the time,” Larkin said in a conference call. “I just worked on my baseball talent, just that alone. That was an eye-opener because I got so much better.”

After 12 weeks the patients who used a chiropractor or exercised were more than twice as likely to be pain free compared to those who relied on medicine. “Doesn’t surprise me a bit,” said Dr. Lee Green, professor of family medicine at the University of Michigan.