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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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