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Playing violent video games changes brain function and desensitizes chronic players to violence, a new study shows.
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Khaled Mattawa, assistant professor of English, heads the poetry section of U-M's MFA Program in Creative Writing. 'Genealogy of Fire' and 'For Years I've Been Prohibited From Mentioning the Moon' are in Zodiac of Echoes, his second volume of poetry.
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Geri Allen joined the U-M School of Music faculty in 2005. 'Lush Life' is from her 2004 CD The Life of a Song. 'Piano Boogie' is from the Altman film Kansas City, in which she appeared as Mary Lou Williams.
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U-M researchers have created a class of lightweight rigid polymers they predict will be useful for storing hydrogen fuel.
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This quartet of exhibitions explores how an artist’s personal vision of landscape can become part of a cultural identity, for both insiders and outsiders, across time and national boundaries. The artists are Japanese and Chinese. Pictured:
Kambara, Night Snow by Andō Hiroshige (1797-1858), color woodblock print.
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A new dental procedure has patients going home with permanent implanted dentures in one hour. Compared with removable dentures, patients report greater ease in eating and speaking.
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Block M Records is U-M's new recording label that makes performances available to anyone worldwide, primarily through Internet streaming or fee-for-download.
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Many lovers of Shakespearean drama came to Ann Arbor to see the RSC during its first two appearances. Out-of-towners may wish to make arrangements soon to see Patrick Stewart as Antony and Prospero.
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U-M's technology transfer efforts rose 18% in fiscal 2005, with 287 invention disclosures. And University licensing revenues hit $16.7 million versus $11.7 million last year.
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