Enter the Clements photo identification contest

The Clements Library challenges you to identify the people in this "carte de visite" (visiting card). The card was probably produced during the Civil War, when such calling cards were very popular.

"A tremendous victory"

“This is a tremendous victory for the University of Michigan, for all of higher education, and for the hundreds of groups and individuals who supported us," said President Mary Sue Coleman of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the use of diversity in college admissions as a compelling "state interest."

When speaking the truth about sex & money, people prefer telling it to the machines

People are more likely to lie about sex and money to a real person in a telephone survey than to a computerized voice, University of Michigan survey researchers found.

Nice to know you CAN beat the market--but you have to figure out how

"Individual traders are often regarded as, at best, uninformed, at worst, fools," says the Michigan Business School's Tyler Shumway. "However, not all individual traders do poorly in their investments."

Federal approval of FluMist crowns a life's research

Hunein “John” Maassab, emeritus professor of epidemiology at the U-M School of Public Health, has devoted his life to developing a nasal spray vaccine against flu.

U-M Composer Bolcom's year in the spotlight

Keeping up with the beat of his own success--with four world premieres in the last year--has proven to be a demanding task for William Bolcom.
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Medicinal chemists aim pharmaceuticals at just the right spot

Computer modeling of proteins at the College of Pharmacy is helping pinpoint the delivery of anti-cancer drugs.

U-M scholars act to preserve Iraqi cultural heritage

In response to the destruction and theft of cultural artifacts in Iraq, three U-M scholars helped found a national committee of experts to recover, preserve and restore the treasures.

POETRY: The Nest

Hear the poet Richard Tillinghast of the creative writing faculty read THE NEST mp3 (requires audio plugin)

The building of it took place right under our noses,
in the hedge that bordered our lives just off our porch.
So at first we missed it, busy about our own
arrivals and departures, till the nest was good to go:

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