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Caring for older Americans with dementia costs more than $18B a year in additional time spent by family and friends, according to a University of Michigan study.

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Six universities are collaborating on a new $6.9M multi-project program of research on the brain and behavior in early iron deficiency, headed by the director of the Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Michigan.

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Music composer Bright Sheng, University of Michigan School of Music professor, is one of 23 individuals to receive the prestigious MacArthur Foundation award. Sheng will receive $500,000 over five years of "no strings attached" support.

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A group of researchers have demonstrated an ultrafast switch for X-rays. The switch will enable the researchers to follow the movement of constituent atoms, and actually obtain information about the dynamics of molecular motion.

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A University of Michigan graduate student plans to present photos depicting the health conditions of Afghan refugees, taken by the refugees themselves, at the American Public Health Association's annual convention in Atlanta on Wednesday (Oct. 24).

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The following is a list of University of Michigan faculty from various areas on campus who are available to comment on the United States' war on terrorism. This list is updated regularly.

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The University of Michigan has received a five-year, $3.7M award from the National Science Foundation to improve the opportunities for tenure-track women faculty in science and engineering fields.

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The development of the basic scientific advances and applications that will transform society in the next two decades---in areas as diverse as nanotechnology, nuclear science and medicine---received a boost recently when the National Science Foundation announced the establishment of a Physics Frontier Center at the University of Michigan. The project is funded with $15M over a five-year period.

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A group of University of Michigan researchers conducted an in-depth look at the issues of brand-name medications vs. their generic equivalents.

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Terrorist attacks have had a significant impact on Americans' sense of personal safety and these heightened fears are linked to their economic expectations and behavior. The findings in this report were drawn from a special survey---conducted by the University of Michigan Institute forSocial Research.

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ISR survey finds some positive impact of terrorist attacks on American psyche: Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans all get higher ratings on "feeling thermometer."

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The University of Michigan School of Dentistry is to develop a research program to investigate the social, economic, environmental, and biological causes of disparities in oral health.

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A new University of Michigan study, provides experimental evidence supporting a neurological explanation for why cues as innocent as the sound of ice cubes tinkling in a glass can cause "recovered" addicts to experience dangerous drug cravings.

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The Bush administration is committed to reviving nuclear power. This is not surprising, says a University of Michigan professor of environmental policy. "Nuclear plants now provide about 21 percent of the electricity in the United States and Canada. There's no way they can or will be mothballed any time soon."

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A University of Michigan economist and director of the monthly Surveys of Consumers conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research, will hold a dial-in news briefing on Monday, Oct. 1, at 11 a.m. EDT, to discuss new findings from the September 2001 surveys.

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This school year, the U-M School of Nursing is introducing a new concentration in care for the frail and elderly, under the direction of the professor of nursing and a faculty associate at the U-M Institute of Gerontology.

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A technique that will greatly improve the study of nanostructures and help shorten the development time for quantum computers and similar devices has been demonstrated by a team of University of Michigan researchers.

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Partial skeletons of ancient whales found in Pakistan last year resolve a longstanding controversy over the origin of whales, confirming that the giant sea creatures evolved from early ancestors of sheep, deer and hippopotami and suggesting that hippos may be the closest living relatives of whales.

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The following is a list of University of Michigan faculty from various areas on campus who are available to comment on the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. This list will be updated regularly.

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In work that promises to advance understanding about the origin and dynamics of Earth's iron-rich inner core and the generation of the planet's magnetic field, a team that includes University of Michigan researchers has found that the elastic properties of iron are quite different at extremely high temperatures than at low temperatures.

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A team that includes University of Michigan School of Information researchers will receive $10 million from the National Science Foundation to build a virtual laboratory, or "collaboratory," through which engineers can design and test earthquake-safe structures.

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"E-Health: Future or Folly" will address a wide range of topics on health care and Internet converge, including patient care, purchasing, insurance design and consulting services.

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Autos, PCs, household appliances, cable/satellite TV: consumer spending should remain fairly constant, despite less-satisfied customers.

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Older adults actually use different regions of the brain than younger adults to perform the same memory and information processing tasks, according to University of Michigan research to be presented Aug. 24 at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco.

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Although there is little doubt that the American economy has been and continues to be weak, it appears to have entered just a low-growth phase, rather than a full-blown recession, say University of Michigan economists.

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In studies presented Aug. 24 in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, it was found that mental aging is a slippery slope, with continuous declines in processing power starting as soon as our 20s.

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"People who leave their hometowns after high school are less likely to have traditional families," says a University of Michigan psychologist "they are drawn to diversity and comfortable with it. And they're successful at navigating a more impersonal world."

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University of Michigan doctoral student has documented a decline in the abundance of plants called epiphytes (also known as "air plants"), on coffee farms that use intensive agricultural practices.

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Researchers at the University of Michigan are finding that the ability to actively select one option over another may no longer be reserved for higher animals; in fact, plants may make choices too.

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University of Michigan researchers have developed a method that lets them reconstruct the environmental history of individual salmon and identify the juvenile habitat of an adult fish returning from the ocean to spawn.

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A new approach developed by scientists at the University of Michigan and ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company allows direct dating of faults--surfaces along which rocks break and move--near Earth's surface.

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The Michigan Media Award for Excellence in Coverage of Women and Gender is presented annually by the University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG). Award winners for 2001 are Susan Ferraro, New York Daily News, and the online magazine, Women's E-news.

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As the technology that allows collaboration over distance and time improves, the "collaboratory"---a virtual center where people in different locations work together as easily as if they were all in the same place---is gaining appeal in science and education, as well as business and industry.

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A cross-disciplinary team of researchers at the University of Michigan has developed a procedure for using an ultrafast laser to make clean, high-precision surgical cuts in the human cornea.

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Rudeness and bad manners have become alarmingly common in the American work-place, according to a University of Michigan researcher who found that 71 percent of workers surveyed have been insulted, demeaned, ignored, or otherwise treated discourteously by their co-workers and superiors.

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Several prominent venture capitalists, institutional investors and high-tech entrepreneurs will provide insight on the current investment climate and companies based upon the next wave of technologies during the University of Michigan Business School's 20th annual Growth Capital Symposium, June 19-20.

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About half of U.S. fathers who don't live with their biological children also have family ties to another set of children, and 24 percent have three or more groups of children in their lives, according to a University of Michigan researcher.

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In work that could improve understanding of future climate change, University of Michigan researchers have documented a global-scale increase in oceanic biological productivity that occurred between about 6 million and 4 million years ago, during the late Miocene and early Pliocene epochs of geological history.

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A field study on the effects of elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) on forest ecosystems raises doubts about the ability of trees to absorb excess CO2 accumulating in the earth's atmosphere.

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Driven in large part by consumers' growing discontent with utility companies, American customer satisfaction levels have declined for a second straight quarter.

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Despite a sharp increase in the number of dual-career families, today's children spend more time with their parents than children did two decades ago, according to a University of Michigan study.

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Exposure to sports magazines and women's sports on television---much like reading fashion magazines or watching television programs with thin characters---encourage teen-age girls to focus on body image, say researchers at the University of Michigan

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It is generally accepted that not getting enough to eat has severe consequences for children in countries poorer than the United States, but this is the first national U.S. study to determine if the level of food deprivation domestically is severe enough to affect children's health status.

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Commencement exercises like these are perhaps the most elaborate civic rituals in our American culture. The funny hats and get-ups, capelike hoods with an arcane code of symbolic colors explained in the program, the procession.

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University of Michigan's Information Revolution Commission issued a report that calls for creating a "living laboratory" in which all members of the university community can use, experiment with and study new technologies.

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The newly formed Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Michigan will host its inaugural conference on May 21-25. The event, titled "2001: A spacetime Odyssey," will feature some of the world's most distinguished scientists in the fields of particle physics, astronomy and astrophysics, and mathematics.

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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Famous words by Franklin Delano Roosevelt repeated dozens of times by U-M history Prof. Sidney Fine in his second semester American History class. After more than a half century of teaching, Fine held his last lecture on April 16.

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Madeleine K. Albright Joins the William Davidson Institute at the U-M Business School.

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Losing a spouse is one of the most stressful events a person can experience. But most older adults are resilient and bounce back to earlier levels of physical and psychological health within 18 months of their loss, according to new research on bereavement from the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.

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Patients experiencing chest pain and other symptoms may be able to find out equally well whether blocked arteries are the cause by lying still for a quick heart scan called electron beam computed tomography or by running on a treadmill for a stress test, according to a new study. (Archives of Internal Medicine, 3-29-01)