University of Michigan

It's finals week: Do you know what your teen is taking to study so hard?

2013-05-21 16:18:00

By the end of high school, 12% of teens say they have taken a stimulant medication for reasons other than to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But parents, including many of those whose kids are taking ADHD drugs in a bid to boost...

Fiat weighs shifting its HQ to the U.S.

2013-05-17 00:00:00

Fiat, the century-old Italian automaker, appears poised to move its headquarters to the U.S. after its planned merger with Chrysler Group. The move would be unprecedented in the automotive industry, experts said, because of Fiat's deep roots. "To...

George Karl is the NBA coach of the year

2013-05-08 22:27:00

George Karl led the Denver Nuggets to a team-record 57 wins without a big name on his roster. For that endeavor, Karl earned the NBA's Coach of the Year award on Wednesday. He received 62 first-place votes, followed by Erik Spoelstra of the Miami Heat...

PASSINGS: Ben Pleasants, Kenneth Appel

2013-04-30 00:00:00

Ben Pleasants L.A. poet and playwright Ben Pleasants, 72, a Los Angeles poet and playwright who also championed the work of Charles Bukowski and John Fante in literary critiques, died of a heart attack April 18 in Crescent City, his wife, Paula, said....

Colleges as country clubs

2013-04-21 00:00:00

My daughter is a junior in high school, so I've spent part of this spring making that upper-middle-class pilgrimage known as "the college tour." But as we were led across sweeping lawns by tour guides walking backward, I found myself thinking less about...

Wide search expected in hunt for next UC president

2013-04-15 08:08:00

With no obvious inside candidate to be the next president of the University of California system, experts predict a wide search that will concentrate on similar university systems elsewhere but could also stretch beyond academia. Whoever replaces Mark...

UC expected to launch wide search for new president

2013-04-15 00:00:00

Mark Yudof likes to point out that he was the first real outsider in more than a century chosen to run the sprawling University of California system. And he often jokes that, as a result of his leadership, it is likely to take a hundred years more...

A hint that affirmative action may survive

2013-04-08 13:48:00

All but eclipsed by the speculation about how the Supreme Court will rule on same-sex marriage is the fact that the court will also hand down a decision in the next few months about the constitutionality of affirmative action at state universities.� But...

PASSINGS: Donald A. Glaser, Jewel Akens

2013-03-05 00:00:00

Donald A. Glaser Nobel Prize-winning physicist Donald A. Glaser, 86, a Nobel Prize-winning UC Berkeley physicist who invented a device called the bubble chamber, which allowed researchers to track the paths of high-energy atomic particles after...

Harvard Quiz Bowl championships revoked in cheating scandal

2013-03-22 12:58:00

Harvard Quiz Bowl teams that won four championships between 2009 and 2011 have had those wins vacated because of a cheating scandal involving one student. A security review revealed that a member of the Harvard Quiz Bowl team accessed information...

Who needs a car? Smartphones are driving teens' social lives

2013-03-15 16:24:00

Given a choice between a new Toyota Corolla or the latest iPhone, 16-year-old Allison Katz of Irvine says that's an easy one. She'd take the phone. Texting drives her social life. She doesn't have a driver's license and hasn't rushed to get one....

Sam Zell's wife donates $50 million to Michigan creative writing

2013-03-07 09:30:00

In my book, donating money to support creative writing programs is generally a good thing. But I'm -- hmm, let's call it conflicted -- over a $50-million donation to the University of Michigan's MFA program in creative writing from Helen Zell, wife of Sam...

Latham & Watkins announced the arrival of Nabil Sabki to the firm�s Chicago office as a partner in the corporate department.

2013-05-14 10:35:00

University of Michigan graduate student Diana Portner talks to a group of residents who live along Tannery Creek on Monday in Petoskey.

2013-03-05 06:43:00

Denard Robinson at age nine when he played for the Packer Rattlers. He later went on the star at Deerfield Beach High School and the University of Michigan.

2013-01-24 14:40:00