With the help of rock-eating fungi, some types of trees are able to "mine" calcium, a nutrient essential to their growth, a research team led by University of Michigan geological sciences Prof. has found.
Lakeshore housing development affects breeding bird communities in subtle ways that conventional methods of assessing impact may miss, but property owners can take steps to lessen the effects, the scientists say.
Max McGraw Foundation and Ford Motor Company Fund to provide financial support to Corporate Environmental Management Program students at U-M.
As more women delay having babies to finish their educations and establish their careers, a University of Michigan researcher identifies an unexpected long-term implication of waiting: likely eventual extinction of the older mother's lineage.
A new medical residency program at the University of Michigan School of Public Health is training physicians to apply their knowledge to improve the health of the population as a whole, instead of treating individuals.
For many Americans shaken by September 11, the emotional insecurity continues, according to a University of Michigan survey that is among the first to go back to the same group of people to track changes over time in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults.
Building on the success of its first online course offered through Fathom.com in January, the University of Michigan is rolling out a second Fathom e-course on April 23. "Daily Life in the Eastern Roman Empire (100 BCE - 100 CE): Trade, Travel, and Transformation".
Contrary to widely held belief, girls are not under-performing in middle school and high school math; girls' and boys' achievement in math classes is virtually the same. But girls seem to have less interest in the subject.
A new process developed at the University of Michigan separates cellular proteins in hours instead of the days that previous methods required, an advance that could greatly aid efforts to understand how normal cells function and what goes awry in diseases such as cancer.
A team of Michigan and Canadian researchers has found that over the past half-century, the rocks of Earth's continental crust have warmed significantly, similar to the warming of the oceans, atmosphere and ice reported by other investigators last year.
The University of Michigan Regents voted at their March 14 meeting to award four honorary degrees at the University's spring commencement exercises.
Costs excluded from "pro forma" earnings are far from one-time or unimportant expenses. In fact, higher levels of excluded expenses lead to lower future cash flows and can mislead investors about a firm's profitability, say University of Michigan Business School researchers.
Consciously or not, designers of the U.S. tax system have applied what marketing researchers call the theory of price presentation---presenting prices for products in a way that reduces the perceived burden of spending---to the process of paying taxes, they say.
Michigan Center for Genomics and Public Health at the University of Michigan is one of three funded nationally by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to increase the understanding and use of the human genome in public health practice.
Within about a quarter of a second after we see the outcome of a gamble, our brains have processed whether we've won or lost, according to a University of Michigan study.
Wall Street has always had bears and bulls, but when it comes to stock analysts, in particular, it also has a fair number of sheep, according to a University of Michigan Business School researcher.
Geologists have been intrigued by observations that some seismic waves travel faster than others in particular patches of the lowermost mantle, but they haven't known exactly why that happens. New work by researchers at the University of Michigan and Yale University helps explain the phenomenon and offers new insights into Earth's inner workings.
Adolescent girls who feel confident about their physical abilities enjoy exercise more than those girls who go into the activity doubting their skills.
American men are doing about 16 hours of housework a week, up from 12 hours a week in 1965, according to a study by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.
A $2.2 M study by the University of Michigan School of Social Work hopes to evaluate the effectiveness of culturally specific HIV/AIDS risk reduction programs and to offer potential solutions for this mounting problem.
University of Michigan School of Dentistry researchers will present papers on a wide range of topics at a meeting of the International Association for Dental Research in San Diego, Calif., March 6-9.
A study of leaf-eating monkeys shows how a duplicated copy of a gene encoding a pancreatic enzyme has evolved to help the monkeys cope with an unusual diet.
"For the entire period between 1981 and 1998 the environmental voting scores of the Congressional Black Caucus have been consistently higher than either white Democrats or Republicans in the House of Representatives," says the associate professor at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment.
The Bioterrorism and Health Preparedness Research and Training Center is designed to bring together faculty from across U-M to collaborate with the Michigan Department of Community Health and other federal, state and municipal agencies to prepare for and prevent the effects of bioterrorism.
Customer satisfaction with the quality of goods and services available to American consumers in the retail, finance and e-commerce sectors rose during the final quarter of 2001.
According to a report released last week by the University of Michigan's Center for the Education of Women, state policies discourage current or former welfare recipients from obtaining associate's or bachelor's degrees, even though research has shown that completion of post-secondary education increases welfare recipients' wages much more rapidly than does work experience.
By the time they're in their early 30s, most Americans don't get around much anymore, according to a study conducted by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academic survey and research organization.
The University of Michigan will use two upcoming University Musical Society performances as the springboard to illustrate the degree to which the arts provide a context for a richer, more nuanced understanding of the life sciences. One program examines the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and the other deals with what science suggests about the relationship between President Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings.
A New study by two University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers shows no relationship between Medicare-based measures of mortality and complications and the scores assigned to hospitals by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAHO).
The results of a survey conducted by a University of Michigan psychologist suggest that, in some respects, Americans really have become kinder, more loving and more grateful since Sept. 11.
A pair of physicists, working on the cusp between physics and geology, have developed an explanation for these splendid formations. They postulate that as the lava cooled, fractures formed at the surface and moved downward.
America's love affair with big sport-utility vehicles and trucks may be cooling down a bit, according to a new forecast by the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute.
Use of the drug "ecstasy" continued to increase among American teen-agers in 2001, following sharp increases among adolescents and young adults in recent years, but the rate of increase finally is beginning to slow.
Cigarette smoking, the leading cause of preventable death and disease in this country, is falling sharply among American teen-agers. The latest national survey in the Monitoring the Future series, conducted by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, shows that teen smoking is rapidly declining.
Believe it or not, filing taxes has become a more favorable experience for Americans than flying on commercial airlines, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
Publicly traded biotech firms MedImmune Inc. and Aviron announced Dec. 3 that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which MedImmune plans to acquire Aviron---adding Aviron's FluMist to its product offerings.
The study---the first national survey to examine age differences in multiple dimensions of forgiveness, then link those differences to both mental and physical health---finds that middle-aged and older adults were more likely to forgive others than were younger adults.
The University of Michigan School of Public Health is asking challenging questions about how the nation's public health system and the school itself should deal with biological, chemical and nuclear terrorism. A forum Nov. 26, cosponsored by the U-M Life Sciences Values and Society Program and the International Institute, will delve into those issues with expert speakers and audience discussion.
The University of Michigan School of Education recently received a first-time $175,000 educational grant from the Goldman Sachs Foundation to evaluate research involving GSF's signature initiatives.
While consumer confidence has fallen considerably in the face of a weakening economy and in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, American customer satisfaction with everyday, non-durable goods and products has held steady, according to the quarterly American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).
Only about 22 percent of Americans who received federal income tax rebates in the past few months mostly spent or expect to spend the money. Instead, a majority planned mostly to save it or use it to pay off debt, say University of Michigan economists.
It's about as easy to lose weight as it is to get rich, according to a University of Michigan study that tracked weight changes among a nationally representative sample of more than 10,000 adults over a 13-year period.
Estrogen may make the brain more vulnerable to addiction, with the effects of this heightened susceptibility persisting even in the hormone's absence, according to a University of Michigan study.
Nearly two-thirds of 611 mid-life mothers studied felt that they had been less successful in their work lives than their adult daughters, according to a University of Michigan study. But many felt that their daughters were less happy than they had been at the same age.
The director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, will be the keynote speaker Dec. 7 at the University of Michigan's fourth Wiesner Symposium, titled "Braving the New World: Benefits and Challenges of Genetic Knowledge."
More than half of teen-age girls think they are overweight, according to results from a recent survey. When SmartGirl.org, a Web site for teens run by the University of Michigan, ran a poll asking readers about eating disorders, 58 percent of the 737 girls and eight boys who responded said they thought they should lose weight.
New research conducted among M.B.A. students at the University of Michigan Business School by renowned psychologist a and collaborator provides further evidence that tests that assess students' practical abilities can be as valuable as standardized intelligence testing, like the Graduate Management Admissions Test.
Collecting pretty seashells is more than a vacation pastime for scientists from the University of Michigan and Ohio State University, whose analyses of scallop shells are filling gaps in Antarctica's temperature record for the last century. The researchers will report on their work at a meeting of the Geological Society of America in Boston.
A two-year study, which began Oct. 1 at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, will look at how safety net organizations in Michigan are coping with the current environment.
Babies with Down Syndrome can learn to walk earlier and better through regular exercise on a slow treadmill, according to research headed by the director of the Center for Motor Behavior in Down Syndrome at the University of Michigan Division of Kinesiology.
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