Counseling Clinic receives BCBS grant
Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Michigan has awarded the UDM Counseling Clinic $10,000 as part of their Free Health Clinic initiative. The health insurer is awarding free clinics throughout the state a total of $1 million in grants that will provide health services to individuals and families without health insurance.
Computer design of the award-winning SEALE device.
Engineering & Science highlights
You can now view on YouTube the segment of the TV show A Wider World, which features the UDM Engineering capstone design projects that help disabled people. The show will be broadcast on PBS stations around the country this month.
Also, a team of UDM Electrical and Mechanical Engineering students received the second place award at the Robotics Innovation Competition and Conference, held at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Nov. 7-8. UDM's team created a robot, SEALE, that helps elderly or disabled people get up from a sitting to a standing position.
North Korean Review selected for index
In April 2004, UDM established a non-partisan, non-proprietary research center on North Korea within the College of Business Administration. The center produces the interdisciplinary academic journal North Korean Review (NKR), the only English-language journal in the world that focuses on North Korea.
Last month, Thomson Reuters announced the selection of NKR for inclusion in the prestigious Social Sciences Citation Index. For more on the research center and the journal, see the Institute for North Korean Studies site.
Senior Class Gift committee forming
Encourage your undergraduate senior students to consider joining the UDM Senior Class Gift Committee. Last year, the inaugural gift campaign raised more than $2,300 so that the Class of 2009 could purchase a 52" flat-screen TV for the Student Center Rec Room. See the Senior Gift site.
Senior Class Gift Committee members help choose a gift and assist with campaign events and fundraising activities like the Senior Dinner and a Detroit Tigers game trip. To suggest a committee member, or for more information, contact Eileen Pawlowski by e-mail or call or 313-993-1540.
Senior Class Gift Committee members with a campaign check at the Senior Dinner, April 30, 2009.
Last weekend for Putnam County Spelling Bee
This weekend is your last chance to see the The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the adult musical comedy produced by the UDM Theatre Company and Marygrove College's Music Department. Fresh off its hit national tour, the play tells the story of six over-achieving adolescents in their county's spelling bee championship. The final performances will take place Nov. 20, 21, and 22 at the Marygrove Theater on the campus of Marygrove College. For details and ticket information, see the Theatre Company web site.
Thumbs Up!
John Freeman, professor of English, presented the paper, "A secret communication system of variable frequency carrier oscillators, modulators, detectors, and rectifiers for decrypting the life of H. K. Markey," to the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Nov. 6.
Associate Professor of Education Isaiah McKinnon was quoted in the Time article, "Can Detroit prevent a return of 'Devil's Night'?," part of the magazine's Assignment Detroit project. McKinnon, former Detroit Police Chief, was asked about efforts to combat arson in the 1990s.
Professor of Psychology Christine Panyard will present "A Renaissance Christmas" on Monday, Nov. 30 and Monday, Dec. 7 after the 7 p.m. Masses at the St. Mary, Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church in Milford. The Advent presentation will combine Italian Renaissance art with Scripture to tell the Christmas story in a different way.
Associate Professor of Nursing Mitzi Saunders wrote the article, "Indicators of health-related quality of life in heart failure family caregivers," published in the October 2009 Journal of Community Health Nursing.
Gregory Sumner, professor of History, presented the talk, "Slaughterhouse at forty: Kurt Vonnegut's Dresden novel, reconsidered," at the annual meeting of the American Intellectual History Association, Nov. 12 at the City University of New York Graduate Center.