Tag: University of Michigan

Study Finds Higher Rate of Suicide Among Women Physicians Compared to All Women in the U.S.

Although higher rates of suicide were found among women doctors compared to the general population of women in the United States, the same trend was not found among male physicians compared to the overall male population.

In Memoriam: Jo-Ann Waiting Terry, 1943-2025

For over three decades, Dr. Terry was an academic and administrative leader at community colleges in Michigan. She was also a champion for civil rights in Detroit.

Three Women With Academic Ties Receive Whiting Writers’ Awards

Karisma Price is an assistant professor of English at Tulane University. Aisha Sabatini Sloan is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan and Shubha Sunder teaches creative writing at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Higher Educated Married Couples Are More Likely to Share Household Chores

Three women scholars affiliated with Yale University have found new evidence that people marrying similarly-educated partners may be reducing gender inequality within households, while simultaneously widening income inequality between households.

Anastasia Urtz Named President of SUNY Adirondack

"I am honored to lead this important institution during a time of change in higher education and look forward to collaborating with campus and community leaders to expand educational opportunities for local residents," said President-elect Urtz. She is slated to assume the SUNY Adirondack presidency this summer.

Research Documents Perceived Gender Differences in Social Preferences

Regardless of gender, people expect women to be more generous and equality-oriented than men. However, these perceptions tend to be inaccurate as both men and women tend to behave similarly across several different contexts.

Franklin Institute Recognizes Katharine Suding for Transformative Contributions to Restoration Ecology

A distinguished profesor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Boulder, Dr. Suding is a plant community ecologist who studies ecosystem landscape and population biology.

Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women Resigns in Protest

In a letter to the campus community, Professor Nadasen said "I look forward to a time when campus reopens, when we can freely discuss ideas, when the administration stands up for critical academic inquiry and debate, and when students are able to freely express ideas, whether or not we agree with those ideas.”

In Memoriam: Barbara Ann Wolf, 1952-2024

For many years, Dr. Wolf was the psychiatry clerkship director for the Flint campus of the College of Human and Osteopathic Medicine at the University of Michigan. Recently, she had led the behavioral health faculty for the college’s affiliated family medicine residency at McLaren Flint hospital.

Tanisha Ford Receives National Book Award for a Biography of Prominent Civil Rights Movement Fundraiser

Dr. Ford's award-winning book Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power, Behind the Civil Rights Movement (Amistad, 2023), examines the social history of Mollie Moon, founding president of the National Urban League Guild.

Caitlin Cain Recognized for Early-Career Research on Gas Chromatography

Dr. Cain currently serves as a research fellow at the University of Michigan, where she is working to develop novel analytical and computational tools to study neurochemical dynamics.

In Memoriam: Michèle Longino, 1947-2024

Dr. Longino was a longtime professor of romance studies at Duke University in North Carolina. She was a prominent scholar of seventeenth-century French literature and the author of several books.