Rebuilding the men’s and women’s basketball programs has taken a few years, but both are now poised for long term success.

U-M’s School of Nursing has become the first school in the nation to partner with the Peace Corps on a nursing master’s degree program.

The drugs Avastin and Sutent have been looked at as potential breast cancer treatments. But while they do shrink tumors and slow the time till the cancer progresses, the effect does not last, and the cancer eventually regrows and spreads. Now U-M researchers have discovered why—and what can be done about it.

A science boom at the North Campus Research Center; human trafficking clinic helps more victims; athletic alums make an impact in baseball and hockey; the ‘Adam and Eve’ of computer dating met at U-M; UM-Flint scholarships draw students; another actor-musician rises from StarKid; and more.

A U-M project that helps Flint middle school students contribute to their community turns out to reduce violence and crime among the kids.

While the major share of media attention has focused on third-party online social networks such as Facebook, many companies have made the choice to build their own social networks. It’s well worth the investment, say U-M researchers, who find that such networks increase profits and loyalty not only online but in brick-and-mortar stores as well.

Study: Even though narcissists have grandiose self-perceptions, they also have fragile views of themselves, and often resort to aggression when their sense of superiority is threatened,

“We didn’t understand what mechanism might create a magnetic field, and even if it happened, we didn’t understand why the magnetic field is still there,” says U-M’s Paul Drake. “It has been a very enduring mystery.” But now it seems to have been solved.

President Obama spoke at the University of Michigan to several thousand students, where he called on universities and states to do more to reduce the cost of higher education.