A new health care policy institute will occupy the former Pfizer site on the University of Michigan’s campus in Ann Arbor, bringing 500 researchers together from across multiple disciplines. The Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation will require a $13.7 million renovation project on Building 16, located on the northeast ...
The University of Michigan dominates much of Ann Arbor: It’s the largest landowner. It’s the largest employer. It’s an economic driver unlike any other in this state, thanks to the breadth of its specialties. Now we’re learning that U-M is becoming a landlord, too.
Partnerships between academia and the corporate world may eventually take up 20 percent of the 30-building, 174-acre ex-Pfizer campus the University of Michigan acquired last year, U-M President Mary Sue Coleman said Wednesday. “It’s going to be mostly academic,” Coleman said. “I don’t have a percentage, but I wouldn’t be ...
Late Tuesday morning, David Schwimmer — director of the independent feature film “Trust,” which is currently shooting in Ann Arbor, Dexter and Plymouth (see "More Info" box for details) — held a press conference at the University of Michigan’s North Campus Research Complex (formerly Pfizer) to talk about his latest ...
The University of Michigan will look for private-sector partners to share space at its newly acquired former Pfizer property in Ann Arbor, and U-M's vice president of research Stephen Forrest outlined some of the criteria the university will use to evaluate potential joint ventures. At a speech to a meeting ...
The central focus for the University of Michigan’s 2-million-square-foot North Campus Research Complex is science and economic development. But a side effect is already emerging: The ex-Pfizer site promises to be a talent recruitment asset. The site is already responsible for attracting at least one person: new U-M Health System ...
University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman this afternoon said the university could double its research spending to $2 billion by 2017.The stratospheric increase would give the university one of the largest research budgets of any educational institution in the country. In 2007, Johns Hopkins University' $1.55 billion research budget ...
Huron quarterback John Helvie gets ready to heave a pass into the end zone during second quarter action Friday night. His 87-yard touchdown to Dante Williams two quarters later was the game-winner. (Lon Horwedel | AnnArbor.com) Dante Williams realized early on that he had the kind of height advantage that ...
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