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UM Study Finds Inconsistent Scoring Of Newborn Intensive Care Units

Scoring methods commonly used to evaluate Newborn Intensive Care Units are inconsistent, according to new research from the University of Michigan.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/03/04

University of Michigan Hospital (University of Michigan photo)

C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Sparrow Children’s Center Affiliate

A new affiliation between Sparrow Children’s Center and the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital will provide children and families in the mid-Michigan area with expanded pediatric specialty care close to home.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/12/19

Overall stress levels from environmental threats are indicated in this graphic, with blue the least stressed and red the most stressed areas. GLEAM photo.

Environmental Threat Map Highlights Great Lakes Restoration Challenges

A comprehensive map three years in the making is telling the story of humans’ impact on the Great Lakes, identifying how “environmental stressors” stretching from Minnesota to Ontario are shaping the future of an ecosystem that contains 20 percent of the world’s fresh water.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/12/18

The University of Michigan North Campus Research Complex, a former Pfizer Inc. research center

UM Recruits Harvard Health Care Researcher For New Institute

A Harvard University doctor and leader in health policy research who has devoted his career to making health care better and more fair will head a large new University of Michigan institute that focuses on those same goals.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/10/30

Event Notices From October 5-7

The latest meeting and event notices from Michigan’s technology focused companies, institutions and people

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/10/07

Origami cranes. Wikimedia Commons photo.

Nano-Origami Project Combines Art, Engineering

Engineers and artists at the University of Michigan will receive nearly $2 million from the National Science Foundation for a four-year research campaign to find out whether the ancient art of origami could bring nanotechnology into the third dimension.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/08/23

EMU, UM Students Design No-Power Warming Blankets For Premature Babies Overseas

A team of one Eastern Michigan University student and several from the University of Michigan recently designed a warming blanket that can help such babies retain or increase their body heat in order to improve their survival rate.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/05/21

Construction Of New Rock Spawning Reefs Will Help Great Lakes Native Fish

The first of nine rock reefs is under construction in the St. Clair River delta northeast of Detroit. The goal of the project, which is led by Michigan Sea Grant, is to boost populations of lake sturgeon and other rare native fish by providing river-bottom rock structures where they can spawn.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/05/09

The University of Michigan central campus.

Student Entrepreneurs Earn Nearly $90,000 In UM Competitions

The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business Monday announced the winners of the 2012 Michigan Business Challenge and recipients of the Applebaum Dare to Dream Grants and Mayleben Family Venture Shaping Grants for UM student startups.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/02/20

UM Annual Sustainability Report Shows Success In Key Areas

The University of Michigan continues to make progress in key areas of energy reduction, alternative transportation and waste reduction, according to its newly released 2011 annual sustainability report.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/01/16

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