U-M Ann Arbor mathematicians research on biological clock. According to the mathematicians, the clock that determines and controls our biological rhythms that tell whether we are a day or night person is not ticking the way that scientists have long believed.
Our biological clockis located in the central brain region called suprachiasmatic nuclei. For so many years, scientists have believed the clock time is determined by the speed at which the cells fire their electrical pulses — fast during the day, slow at night.
The clock plays a role in cell division, …

Ann Arbor charter schools may be the answer for those who cannot afford the tuition fee of a provate school and yet looking for something beyond the local public school. They are also called the Public School Academies.
Here are helpful information from where you can obtain information about charter schools in Washtenaw County as well as in Ann Arbor.
1. The Washtenaw Intermediate School District. Their Web site has a list of all charter schools that you can find in the county and they have links to the home pages of …

Tuesday – University of Michigan is going to team up with Amazon.com Inc. to offer reprints from its library 400,000 rare, out-of-print and out-of-copyright books. Amazon’s BookSurege unit will print the books in soft cover editions with prices ranging from $10 to $45.
According to the University of Michigan, the books are in more than 200 languages from Acoli to Zulu. There is even a book from 1898 book from Florence Michigan on nursing, “Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is not.”
This is made possible because the university …

Rebekah Warren, an Ann Arbor Democrat and Gilda Jacobs, a Huntington Woods Democrat said that they are going to address the rising cases of STDs and unplanned pregnancies. The Michigan Lawmakers said that they are going to introduce a series of bills to address the crisis.
Warren said in an interview that the statistics are something to be worried about and instead of the funds spent on STDs and unintended pregnancies, the money that you will be able to save can be used on other aspects of the state.
There will be …

(photo taken from http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/Fellowship_About.aspx)
Ann Arbor Teacher Tracey Van Dusen is given the opportunity to improve her teaching skills when she was awarded the fellowship with C-SPAN. She is one of the three teachers who were selected for the fellowship which will be held this summer from June 18 to July 18. When she goes back to teaching her government students next fall, she will be able to give a more personal description of how things work, thanks to this fellowship.Van Dusen said that since she will be seeing things up-close, …