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In e-TrueBlue, our weekly e-newsletter for Alumni Association members, we highlight an author and University of Michigan graduate who has recently published a book. Following is the featured book and author for June 2013.

Check out our Alumni Author Series for more books by U-M graduates.

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The Repeat Year book cover

In e-TrueBlue, our weekly e-newsletter for Alumni Association members, we highlight an author and University of Michigan graduate who has recently published a book. Following is the featured book and author for May 2013.

Check out our Alumni Author Series for more books by U-M graduates.

Photo credit: John T. Consoli/University of Maryland

Looking back on his days as a student at Michigan, University of Maryland President Wallace Loh has a lot of great memories—and perhaps one not-so-fond recollection.

Susan Orlean, U-M alumna

As commencement season draws near, speakers are preparing their words of wisdom. Here we share the commencement address that renowned author Susan Orlean, ’76, gave to the English Department last spring, because her words are applicable to us all.

Book cover of Living Toegether

In e-TrueBlue, our weekly e-newsletter for Alumni Association members, we regularly highlight an author and University of Michigan graduate who has recently published a book. Following is the featured book and author for April 2013.

Check out our Alumni Author Series for more books by U-M graduates.

The University finds itself on the frontier of a new age of online learning as one of the initial content providers for Coursera.

U-M Ross Professor Gautam Kaul

By Mary Jo Frank, MA’94
Michigan Alumnus magazine, Spring 2013

Cover of "Give and Take" by U-M alum Adam Grant, MS'05, PhD'06

In e-TrueBlue, our weekly e-newsletter for Alumni Association members, we regularly highlight an author and University of Michigan graduate who has recently published a book. Following is the featured book and author for March 2013.

"Michigan," a World War II bomber

It’s a curiosity: a B-24 Liberator bomber named “Michigan” with a picture of Michigan Stadium painted on its nose (along with a cheesecake photo of a leggy woman wearing a garrison cap). The Yankee Air Museum in Belleville, Michigan, has a research project under way to learn about the bomber. The museum knows the following:

•Type/Model: B-24J-161-CO Tail number: 44-40429

Federal sequestration spending cuts could cost the U-M research budget up to $40 million this year. In his annual report to the U-M board of regents, Vice President for Research Stephen Forrest said the cuts would harm graduate students, research scientists, and others whose jobs depend on the funding. If the U.S. Congress and the White House fail to resolve a budgetary impasse by March 1, cuts totaling about $85 billion for the current fiscal year will take effect. Funding from federal agencies provides 62 percent of U-M's research budget.

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