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million The amount of Helen Zell’s recent gift that permanently funded LSA’s Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Creative Writing Program, which was named the Helen Zell Writers’ Program in her honor.
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Ancient Burger Vans A news headline inspired by the work of Richard Redding, a research scientist at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, who is investigating the diet of the Egyptian pyramid builders.
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A mashup between LSA’s Museum of Zoology and a “Making Science Visible” class in U-M’s Stamps School of Art and Design has resulted in a Tumblr that shows students’ work through drawing, photography, radiology, and biology illustration: makingsciencevisible.tumblr.com
flying Squirrel! @noahkaczor I’ve never been this excited for school to start. It can’t come soon enough!! #michigandifference #goblue
@kdemens25 I’m going to miss this place so much #BlimpyBurger #legendary Follow the College of LSA on Twitter @UMichLSA
Falcon, Freestyle, Statesman
Names of slip-resistant shoe styles invented by Matthew K. Smith (’93), founder and CEO of Shoes for Crews.
Dinosaurs and Other Failures What is an American? Property and “Pwnership” Sample course titles for the Fall 2013 semester 6
LSA Magazine / fall 2013
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H.R. 925
The bill number for The Securing Accountability in Foreign Embassies (SAFE) Act, introduced by Congresswoman Grace Meng (’97) (D-NY) and Scott Perry (R-PA) in the wake of the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The bill was passed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee in August.
well-being, we found that Facebook use predicts the opposite result—it undermines it.” LSA Assistant Professor of Psychology Ethan Kross, lead author of a new study examining Facebook influence on happiness and satisfaction.