Articles tagged: Medical School
pets: Stay out of the crossfire: reducing the risks to your dog during hunting season
Posted: Oct 05, 2010As I write this, deer stands and hunting blinds are being repaired and erected. Firearms are being prepped and tested. The sporting goods stores are humming with the patronage of anticipation-swelled hunters getting ready for ... Read more »
Dexter Village Council explores options for new fire station, village offices
Posted: Sep 03, 2010Dexter officials are exploring options for a new fire station and relocated village offices. Both spaces are cramped, and village officials say one option is to build an expanded station at the current location, 8140 ... Read more »
New York Times: University of Michigan medical school to drop funding from drug, device companies
Posted: Jun 29, 2010Starting next year, the University of Michigan's medical school will become the first to refuse funding for its continuing education courses for doctors from drug and device makers, the New York Times reported. The move ... Read more »
University of Michigan Medical School to receive $63 million grant for cancer research
Posted: Apr 09, 2010An institute headquartered at the University of Michigan Medical School will receive more than $63 million to help fund the organization of large-scale oncology clinical trials. The Southwest Oncology Group - a network that helps ... Read more »
University of Michigan Medical School to be awarded its largest grant ever
Posted: Apr 07, 2010The University of Michigan Medical School is receiving its largest grant ever, administrators plan to announce Friday. Details on the amount of the grant from the National Institutes of Health aren't being released until Friday, but ... Read more »
With Video: 'Fiber' could help University of Michigan research and patient care, says medical school dean
Posted: Mar 30, 2010James Woolliscroft is the dean of the U-M Medical School. Getting the Internet speeds promised by the Google Fiber project could decrease limitations in medical school research and online collaborations that are now slowed by ... Read more »
Minorities underrepresented in medicine - a trend not expected to change soon, University of Michigan study says
Posted: Jan 29, 2010The number of minority faculty in U.S. medical schools is far from representing the nation's population, a recently published University of Michigan report found. And judging from the pipeline of medical students going through medical ... Read more »
University of Michigan medical school students, faculty fast for a day to better understand Muslim patients
Posted: Sep 10, 2009Long before sunrise Wednesday morning, second-year University of Michigan medical student Jess Guh and some of her classmates dragged themselves to Denny’s restaurant to grab a bite to eat. They don’t typically eat that early, ... Read more »
With slideshow: University of Michigan's ex-Pfizer site acquisition is 'watershed moment'
Posted: Sep 06, 2009Call it the University of Michigan’s $108 million transformation. U-M’s acquisition of Pfizer’s 30-building, 173.5-acre former campus in northern Ann Arbor - a deal completed in mid-June - marks a transition of massive proportions.University leaders ... Read more »
'Eerie' but opportunistic feel permeates ex-Pfizer campus in Ann Arbor
Posted: Sep 06, 2009It feels deserted, abandoned, forgotten. Yet also priceless. The cavernous ex-Pfizer campus in northern Ann Arbor - acquired by the University of Michigan for $108 million in June - is filled with opportunity. People, on ... Read more »
New York Times: The Dog-Eat-Dog World of Applying to Med School
Posted: Jul 25, 2009Tamara Livshiz, a history and biological anthropology major at the University of Michigan, wrote a student essay that appeared in The New York Times this week. In it, Livshiz compares the process of preparing to ... Read more »
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