News and Notes
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LSA Psychologist Richard Nisbett Says Parents Should Tell Children Hard Work Is Essential To Their Success
- Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Children take on less challenging tasks if they have been praised a lot for intelligence because they don't want to risk their reputation, he says.
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LSA Communications Professor W. Russell Neuman Says Academe Should Be Concerned About Sustaining Investigative Journalism
- Friday, November 20, 2009
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LSA Economist Joan Crary Says The National Unemployment Rate Will Remain High For Some Time
- Friday, November 20, 2009
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LSA Biologists Jacinta Beehner And Thore Bergman Study The Social Behavior Of Gelada Monkeys
- Thursday, November 19, 2009
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LSA Chemistry Professor Brian Coppola Is Named A Professor Of The Year
- Thursday, November 19, 2009
Coppola is honored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for involving students as partners in the teaching process.
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LSA Professor Piotr Michalowski Recalls Memories Of the Berlin Wall In A Photo Slideshow
- Thursday, November 19, 2009
Michalowski took many photos of the wall before it was torn down in 1989. His photos will be on display at U-M's Institute for the Humanities through December 11.
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LSA History Professor Howard Brick Says A Fight At A Recent Protest March Signals Possible Backlash Against Tea Party Protestors
- Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Although most Tea-partiers are peaceful, those who bring weapons to demonstrations show a stronger degree of alienation and threat, he says.
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LSA Political Scientist Michael Bommarito Says The House Health Care Bill Is Not Too Long To Read
- Tuesday, November 10, 2009
At 234,000 relevant words the bill is shorter than the longest Harry Potter novel, he says.
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LSA English Professor Eileen Pollack Recounts The Path To Success Of Author Uwem Akpan
- Thursday, November 5, 2009
Akpan's book "Say You Are One of Them" was just chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Akpan is a graduate of LSA's MFA Program in Creative Writing, which Pollack directs.
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LSA Exhibit Preparator Daniel Erickson Enjoys A Dream Career At The Exhibit Museum Of Natural History
- Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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LSA Physicist Gordon Kane Says Particles Surrounding The Milky Way Appear To Be Decayed Remains Of Dark Matter
- Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The discovery by a team of astronomers demonstrates their ability to use data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, Kane says.
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LSA Geophysicist Henry Pollack Says Melting Ice Could Raise Sea Levels At Least Three Feet
- Friday, October 30, 2009
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LSA Professor Henry Pollack Says The World War II Generation Is Most Willing To Recycle
- Friday, October 30, 2009
During World War II citizens felt good about conserving materials and planting victory gardens to help the war effort, he says. That generation set an example for environmental responsibility.
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LSA Physicist Katherine Freese Says New Data May Solve The Mystery Of Dark Matter
- Friday, October 30, 2009
New data collected by NASA's Fermi satellite and underground experiments, such as Xenon100, will soon narrow the range of explanations for the substance that accounts for 85 percent of the matter in the universe.