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India: A Light Within

The bodily experience - textures, sights, sounds, and smells - of life in Calcutta in 2007 are evoked through the photography of award-winning Carnegie-Mellon faculty member Charlee Brodsky, and the prose and poetry of writers Zilka Joseph and Neema Bilpin Avashi. These contemporary photos and medit...

Tsuzamen Aleyn/Together Alone

Songs of friendship, love and solitude in English, Yiddish, Russian and French. Pavel Lion, aka PSoy, from Moscow, is a multilingual post-klezmer poet, scholar, and artist in residence at the Center for World Performance and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Yana Ovrutskaya, also from Moscow, i...

Bioartography

The U-M Center for Organogenesis unites scientists from many fields who work together to study organ growth, function and disease. The goal of these studies is to use what is learned to design new and effective ways to treat disease and repair damaged organs. In the course of this work, the microsco...

Professor from the College of Engineering Named a "Woman to Watch"

Ann Marie Sastry, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Mechanica, Biomedical and Materials Science and Director, Energy System Engineering Program, has been named one of Crain's Detroit Business's 2009 Women to Watch. In addition to her role at the College of Engineering, Sastry is also the CEO of Sakti3...

U-M’s museum theme year brings together art, science, culture, community

From The University Record By Maryanne George LSA Communications Rare Egyptian mummy masks, watercolor paintings of ancient Roman frescoes and a spectacular Tiffany chandelier are just some of the treasures on display at U-M’s 12 museums during the 2009-10 theme year, “Meaningful Objects: Museu...