For the Faculty & Staff at the University of Michigan en-us http://www.umich.edu/news © 2003, The University of Michigan lennyz@umich.edu lennyz@umich.edu Wed Apr 6 12:46:47 2005 Tue Apr 5 15:16:06 2005 http://www.umich.edu/news/images/umns1.gif http://www.umich.edu/news 376 55 For the Faculty & Staff of the University of Michigan http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/Apr05/r040405 Combining 13,000-year-old bones with 21st century auto manufacturing techniques, scientists and exhibit preparators at the University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural history are reconstructing a male mastodon skeleton for an exhibit that opens to the public May 21 http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/Mar05/r032205b A virtually unstoppable "snakebot" developed by a University of Michigan team that resembles a high-tech slinky as it climbs pipes and stairs, rolls over rough terrain and spans wide gaps to reach the other side http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/Mar05/r032105a The University Library has entered a partnership with the survivors of the Shoah Foundation that will make the videotaped testimonies of 52,000 Holocaust survivors available to the general public for the first time. The Los Angeles-based foundation was created 10 years ago by movie director and producer Steven Spielberg to capture for posterity the stories of victims and other eyewitnesses of the Holocaust http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/Mar05/r030805c Perhaps the term "outsider art," should be changed to "insider art" for work done by artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons. The term "outsider art" is often applied to work by artists with no formal art training or little or no contact with the world of "mainstream" art. Mainstream doesn't have a presence in the Michigan penal system http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/Mar05/r032205c A University of Michigan team's finding of peculiar x-ray outbursts coming from a black hole indicate that the object has a mass of about 10,000 suns, which would make it part of a new class of black holes http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/Feb05/flu Global public health experts, including noted U-M flu expert Arnold Monto, are voicing concerns about the possible spread of Asian bird influenza to humans, leading to a world-wide outbreak called a pandemic. Monto helped organize a recent international symposium "Pandemic Influenza: Could History Repeat Itself?" Saturday Sunday 0 1 2 3 4 5 19 20 21 22 23