U-M flu expert Arnold Monto is among the researchers concerned about a possible Asian bird flu pandemic.

U-M will make a college education more accessible and affordable with a new financial aid program, M-PACT, that increases grants and reduces loans for more than 2,900 in-state undergraduates on the Ann Arbor campus.

An easy-to-use 15-minute saliva test that may reveal serious diseases was developed collaboratively by a U-M dentistry professor and fellow researchers. It is now undergoing limited preliminary testing at two U-M sites.

U-M President Mary Sue Coleman joined seven other state university leaders in advising the Pentagon not to close the US Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command in Warren, which partners with academics on innovative transporation research.

After years of decline, the US economy will start adding jobs—about 4 million through 2006—say U-M economists. But survey researchers report consumers fear the economy will produce fewer additional jobs than they expected a few months ago.

'Lord Plant My Feet on Higher Ground' and 'Leaning On the Everlasting Arms' are from MFA-candidate Dargie Anderson's Hopwood Award-winning poetry sequence.

Michigan will award its first-ever Thomas Francis Jr. Medal in Global Public Health to William Foege at a 50th anniversary event to mark the polio vaccine announcement that the Salk polio vaccine was effective.

Listen to "Disillusion" (mp3) (requires audio plugin)

'Disillusion' is from composer-keyboardist Professor Christian Matjias's Suites for Dance, Works for Cello and Piano. (click on "Works" for additonal audio)

Lus Abdres Ybarra's Lost Freedom

Perhaps the term 'outsider art,' should be changed to 'insider art' for the work of imprisoned artists in U-M's Prison Creative Arts Project.

Social factors-particularly residential segregation and neighborhood quality-contribute to large disparities in the death rates of whites and African Americans, report researchers from U-M and Indiana University.