Doren L. Slade, Making the World Safe for Existence: Celebration of the Saints among the Sierra Nahuat of Chignautla, Mexico (Ann Arbour, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 1992), pp. xv + 271, $139.50.

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 260-261
Author(s):  
Frank Cancian
Keyword(s):  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The Fluids Engineering Laboratory at the University of Michigan

1960 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-256
Author(s):  
G. V. Edmonson
Keyword(s):  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
The University

Although the purpose of this paper is specifically that of describing the Fluids Engineering Laboratory at the University of Michigan, it is clear that an understanding of the faculty philosophy underlying the planning of this unit is a necessary part of the document. This is an age of technological expansion, the rate-of-change of which exceeds any progress the world has hitherto known. The seeking of new knowledge and the application of that knowledge is the work of an ever-increasing number of competent scientists and engineers not only skilled in a technology but equally successful in the art of human understanding and relationships. Institutions of higher education are an integral part of this technological age and, because of this fact, find themselves confronted with the task of foreseeing the educational and research needs of the future. This is an immense task, one which is occupying many of the best minds of this generation. The technological and social progress of the coming generation depends upon the continuing flow of students emanating from our institutions of learning. They must be adequately prepared for the responsibilities which they alone can assume.

scholarly journals Out of the Jar into the World! A Case Study on Storing and Sharing Vertebrate Data

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Susan Borda
Keyword(s):  
Ct Scanning ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Deep Blue ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Collections ◽  
The University

In 2018, the Deep Blue Repositories and Research Data Services (DBRRDS) team at the University of Michigan Library began working with the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ) to provide a persistent and sustainable (i.e., non-grant funded, institutionally supported) solution for their part of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) openVertebrate (oVert) initiative. The objective of oVert is to the digitize scientific collections of thousands of vertebrate specimens stored in jars on museum shelves and make the data freely accessible to researchers, students, classrooms, and the general public anywhere in the world. The University of Michigan (U-M) is one of five scanning centers working on oVert and will contribute scans of more than 3,500 specimens from the UMMZ collections (Erickson 2017). In addition to ingesting scans, the project involved developing methods to work around several significant system constraints: Deep Blue Data’s file structure (flat files only, no folders) and the closed use of Specify, UMMZ’s specimen database, for specimen metadata. DBRRDS had to create a completely new workflow for handling batch deposits at regular intervals, develop scripts to reorganize the data (according to a third-party data model) and augment the metadata using a third-party resource, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This paper will describe the following aspects of the UMMZ CT Scanning Project partnership in greater detail: data generation, metadata requirements, workflows, code development, lessons learned, and next steps.  

William Wallace Campbell, 1862-1938

1939 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 613-619 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
University Of Colorado ◽  
Mount Wilson Observatory ◽  
Hancock County ◽  
The World ◽  
High Esteem ◽  
The University

This great astronomer died on 15 June 1938. In a pathetic letter to his wife he explained that his complete blindness in one eye, approaching blindness in the other eye, and still more the fear of losing his reason would make him nothing but a burden to his wife and fam ily and so had few regrets on leaving the world. The high esteem in which he was held was testified by the pall-bearers at his funeral. These included the Governor of the State of California, the Acting President and Officials of the University, the Director, the late Director of the Lick Observatory, and the Director of the Mount Wilson Observatory. William Wallace Campbell was born on 11 April 1862 in a farm in Hancock County, Ohio. H e became a student of the University of Michigan and took the degree of B.S. in the faculty of Engineering. He was appointed Professor of Mathematics in the University of Colorado, but two years later, at considerable financial sacrifice, returned to the University of Michigan as Instructor in Astronomy. In 1891 he was appointed Astronomer at the Lick Observatory, and remained there till 1923, when he yielded reluctantly to the pressure put upon him to accept the post of President of the University of California.

scholarly journals Creating a prototype for a seawater farm through an American-Tunisian virtual exchange

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Nadia Cheikhrouhou ◽  
Kenneth Ludwig
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Instructional Support ◽  
Professional Collaboration ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
The World ◽  
Communication Competencies ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This paper will discuss a Virtual Exchange (VE) between the University of Michigan (USA) and the High Institute of Technological Studies of Béja (Tunisia) that took place between October and December 2019. Students from Tunisia and USA were enrolled in two entrepreneurship courses in their respective universities and joined together to work in groups on an innovative project on ‘creating a prototype for a seawater farm in the region of Khniss’ to be presented at the end of the semester. As this project was student-centered, the main focus was to show its impact on the students through their testimonials on what challenges they encountered and what benefits they gained from this experience at an academic and personal level. These testimonials showed that despite differences in intercultural communication competencies between American and Tunisian students and the use of English as a lingua franca, students gained valuable skills in team communication, collaboration, and coordination in a large team spread over two continents. Students taught each other and learned from each other while working toward solving a social and environmental problem the world is struggling with. Another light was shed on the impact of this VE on the instructors, the pedagogy adopted to conduct the project, as well as the contribution of the instructional support staff. Moving from a directive to a student-driven approach was rewarding for the Tunisian instructor who learned how to push students out of their comfort zone, dive into uncertain areas, and ask questions rather than accepting the norms. On his part the American instructor learned that it is possible to create meaningful, unconventional student-led projects across languages, cultures, and geography as long as the teams (students and faculty) are excited and committed to the project. He also learned that students get inspired to be brave, thoughtful, and resourceful when they can witness what effective professional collaboration by faculty looks like.

Resources Center for Materials Science Education

2000 ◽  
Vol 632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Stoebe ◽  
Darcy Clark ◽  
Rustum Roy
Keyword(s):  
Web Site ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Current Effort ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering ◽  
The University ◽  
Educational Modules

ABSTRACTA variety of educational resources are available in the area of materials science and engineering. These resources are widely dispersed and are often hard to find. Several efforts to collect and categorize the wide variety of educational modules, demonstrations, laboratories and texts have been launched in recent years, but none have been able to incorporate the vast majority of resources. The current effort is funded by NSF and has been collecting information from a variety of sources over the past year. It is being integrated with the Materials Education Library project that has been under way at the University of Michigan since 1997. These projects will result in a fully searchable database, published both on the world wide web and in a print catalog, with the first edition being available by summer 2000. The draft web site may be found at http://msewww.engin.umich.edu/MEL/; a permanent web site will be available by the end of 2000.

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