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Welcome Dean Martin and President Schlissel!
LSA’s new dean, Andrew Martin, and the University of Michigan’s new president, Mark Schlissel, both begin their terms of office on July 1. Test your knowledge about U-M’s president-elect with our quiz on page 63.
double meaning The phrase “off the grid” can refer to a building without electricity or a person who is untraceable—without a cell phone, email address, or Snapchat account. Your Amish cousin, for example, is both off the grid and off the grid.
Down Those Stairs… How do you smash protons together at high speeds? With the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, of course! But once your protons collide, where is all the data stored and where are all the numbers crunched? In the basement of the LSA Building, naturally! U-M computer servers are part of the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, a global effort to share computing power for the LHC.
FIFTEEN U-M’s ranking as a top university in the world according to the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, based on results from an invitation-only survey that included 10,536 academics from 133 countries.
The number of LSA scientists who won Arthur P. Sloan Research Fellowships. They are: Emanuel Gull (physics), Pavel Nagorny (chemistry), and Nathaniel Szymczak (chemistry).
“Kids always
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION The origins of several stories in this issue and online:
Uganda Guatemala Cataract Canyon, Utah Geosynchronous Orbit Angell Hall Auditorium B California Iowa Asgard Turkey India Alaska Tanzania
search for heroes, so we might as well have a say in it.” BRAD MELTZER (’92), AUTHOR OF I AM AMELIA EARHART, ON WHY HE WROTE A CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT THE PIONEERING PILOT. THE BOOK IS PART OF MELTZER’S SERIES, “ORDINARY PEOPLE CHANGE THE WORLD.”
SPRING 2014 / LSA Magazine
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