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Lowering the Price of Hope: Innovation + Access for Essential Medicines for the Developing World

Submitted by lmclaug on November 9, 2007 - 1:42am

Presented by Global REACH, The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), and Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) … Read more »

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John Chamberlin on the effectiveness of local nonprofits (ICOS)

Submitted by seramar on October 23, 2007 - 9:56pm
John Chamberlin is a Professor - and recently was Acting Dean - of the Ford School of Public Policy here at the UM. He has long been active as a researcher on, a teacher about, and a participant in, the nonprofit sector. He has paid special attention to locating points of leverage in the network of nonprofits that might help better align "the community’s aggregate 'willingness to donate' ... with the community’s assessment of its greatest needs". At this week's ICOS seminar, he'll be focusing on these questions about a
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Eli Neiburger, Ann Arbor District Library at Ann Arbor Drupal Users group

Submitted by seramar on September 24, 2007 - 12:10pm
Eli Neiburger of the Ann Arbor District Library <http://www.aadl.org> is going to present about the library's implementation of its drupal site at this coming Ann Arbor Drupal Users group <http://groups.drupal.org/ann-arbor> meeting this Monday night 24 Sep07 @ 7pm. Meeting is at SPARK, downtown on Liberty near Division.
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John Dewey lecture: John Kuo Wei Tchen

Submitted by seramar on September 24, 2007 - 8:44am

Location:
Alumni Association of the University of Michigan
200 Fletcher Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

 

The John Dewey lecture is held annually by the Ginsberg Center in commemoration of Dewey's impact on American education through his writings on the role of experience in learning and problem-solving. The Dewey Lecture highlights the work of current scholar-activists by featuring nationally known figures engaged in public scholarship.  … Read more »

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"Public Goods and the Public Good: Economics, the University, and the Library," with Paul Courant

Submitted by tvol on September 20, 2007 - 11:12pm

From the Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

October 3, 2007. 4 - 5:30 pm. Annenberg Auditorium, 1120 Weill Hall

Paul N. Courant, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Economics and Professor of Information at the University of Michigan.  … Read more »

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