UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Domain	Definition
Computing	University of Michigan A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. 70% of the University's students graduated in the top 10% of their high school class. 90% rank in the top 20% of their high school class. 60% of the students receive financial aid. The main Ann Arbor Campus lies in the Huron River valley, 40 miles west of Detroit. The campus boasts 2700 acres with 200 buildings, six million volumes in 23 libraries, nine museums, seven hospitals, hundreds of laboratories and institutes, and over 18000 microcomputers. Home (http://www.umich.edu/) (1995-02-23). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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The University of Michigan was established in 1817 by the Michigan legislature, by way of a land grant that the Michigan Territory's Native Americans signed away. It has provided a diverse student population with a diverse set of educational opportunities, including academic and professional programs, intramural and NCAA sports programs, and more cultural activities than most residents of Ann Arbor can exploit.

The University of Michigan is often called "The Harvard of the Midwest", a title also claimed by the University of Chicago, Truman State University, and Macalaster College, among others. In response to the comparison, Harvard is often called "The Michigan of the East" by University students, alumni, and staff.

A condition of the treaty that forms the basis for most of the land grant schools in Michigan was that the education of all of the state's Native Americans would be guaranteed in perpetuity. Whether the state's obligation has been met is a topic for debate.

The university in 2003 has 51,000 students and 5,600 faculty in three campuses. The University of Michigan system includes the main Ann Arbor campus as well as two others, the University of Michigan, Dearborn and the University of Michigan, Flint. The university claims to be the largest pre-medicine and pre-law university in the country and to have the largest yearly research expenditure of any university in the United States. It is one of two colleges to have both engineering and medical schools ranked in the U.S.'s top ten. In the 1990s the University of Michigan claimed to have the largest assemblage of Apple Macintosh computers outside of the main factory. Michigan also has the highest tuition of any American state school.

In 2003 a lawsuit involving the school's affirmative action admissions policy reached the U.S. Supreme Court. President George W. Bush took the unusual step of publicly opposing the policy before the court issued a ruling, though the eventual ruling was in its favor.

Famous alumni of the University of Michigan include:

Ann Coulter, conservative author and attorney, graduated from Michigan Law School in 1988.
George Crumb, composer, completed his doctorate in music there in 1959
Gerald R. Ford, 38th U.S. president, studied economics and political science. He played center on two national-championship American football teams and was the team's most valuable player in 1934. He received his B. A. degree in 1935.
Richard Gephardt, United States House Minority Leader, graduate of UM Law School.
David Allen Grier, actor
James Earl Jones, actor
Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) earned a Ph.D in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1967
Lawrence Kasdan studied creative writing and won four Hopwood Awards
Jack Kevorkian received a medical degree with a specialty in pathology in 1952
Christine Lahti, actress
Lucy Liu, actress
Madonna won a scholarship while in high school to study dance at the University of Michigan; she left the university in the late 1970s
William Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
Arthur Miller, playwright, author of Death of a Salesman, The Crucible
Larry Page, co-founder of Google
Iggy Pop, rock star
Gilda Radner, actress / comedian
Claude E. Shannon, "father of information theory"
Mike Wallace, TV Journalist
Chris Webber, NBA star, currently with the Sacramento Kings
Thomas and John Knoll, Co-Creators of Adobe Photoshop

Michigan's sports teams are called the Wolverines. They participate in the NCAA's Division I-A and in the Big Ten Conference; its hockey program competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. The Michigan football team won the first Rose Bowl game in 1902.

The University of Michigan Health System includes three hospitals: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, University Hospital, and Women's Hospital, as well as nearly 150 clinics and MCare, an HMO. The university opened the first university-owned hospital in the United States in 1869. The EKG, gastroscope, and Jonas Salk's polio vaccine were invented at the university.

The University of Michigan is often referred to simply as UM and U of M. The latter term is also used to refer to the University of Minnesota, the University of Montana, the University of Missouri and the University of Maryland. (Note, however, that Missouri is more often referred to as UMC or Mizzou.) University of Michigan students, faculty, and alumni are often heard to assert that only the University of Michigan is "really" the "U of M", or that it has a better claim to that appellation than the others have. The claim has no justification.

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English words defined with "UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN": Ann Arbor. (references)

Specialty definitions using "UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN": Digital Library Initiative ♦ Michigan Algorithm Decoder ♦ TIDI ♦ UMDL, University of Michigan Digital Library Project. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Metastable, Mechanically Alloyed and Nanocrystalline Materials 2001: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Metastable, Mechanically Alloyed and Nanocrystalline Materials University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi, us (Materials Science Forum, Volumes 3 (reference) The Land of Houlouf: Genesis of a Chadic Polity, 1900 B.C.-A.D. 1800 (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No 35) (reference) Chronometric Explorations of Mind: The Third Paul M. Fitts Lectures, Delivered at the University of Michigan, September 1976 (reference) Erythrocyte structure and function : proceedings of the Third International Conference on Red Cell Metabolism and Function held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 16-19, 1974 (reference) Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum: The University of Michigan (Kelsey Museum Studies, Vol 8) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	University Of Michigan Journal Of Law Reform (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Acrylic painting of a spectacled eider flying over an Arctic seascape by Joseph Hautman, 410 Sycamore Circle, Plymouth, MN 55441. Hautman's design was one of 585 entered in the 1991 Federal Duck Stamp Contest. He studied art and physics at the University of Minnesota where he received a degree in physics and later received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan. His published work has contributed to the understanding of a broad range of phenomenon -- from the shapes of water droplets and snow flakes to the miscroscopic structures of soap bubbles and cell membranes. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page.		Homeopathic hospital, University of Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.
	New medical building, University of Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.		Commencement day, senior parade, University of Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.
	New engineering building, big testing tank, University of Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.		The Observatory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Campus & Law Dept., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.		Observatory of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.
	New dental building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.		Formal opening of the new Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, October 22, 1927, Ohio State University vs. University of Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		In a second NINR-supported study, researchers from the University of Michigan examined a training program to assist nurse aides in detecting agitation and aggression in patients with dementia. (references)
		For example, two centers � one at Duke University and one at the University of Michigan � are exploring the potential for integrating survey and biological data to create a substantial new resource for relating individual physiology and genetics on the one hand, with cognition, functional ability, and the progression of illness on the other. (references)
		In 1989, NIDDK-sponsored researchers at the University of Michigan and at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, identified the genetic defect responsible for CF. Mutations in one gene, called the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), cause the body to make nonfunctional CFTR protein, which leads to the disease. (references)
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Gerald Ford	In a subjective sense. You know, I had a fairly good record in athletics at the University of Michigan.
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Expression using "UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN": university of Michigan Digital Library Project. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-g-h-i-i-i-i-m-n-n-o-r-s-t-u-v-y"
	-5 letters: inharmonicities.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
university of michigan	4,503	university of michigan library	22
university of michigan dearborn	284	university of michigan logo	21
university of michigan ann arbor	191	university of michigan golf course	18
university of michigan flint	181	university of michigan football schedule	18
university of michigan football	160	university of michigan basketball	15
university of michigan law school	90	university of michigan dental school	15
university of michigan medical center	81	university of michigan apparel	15
university of michigan credit union	49	university of michigan hockey	15
university of michigan athletics	45	university of michigan sports	13
university of michigan medical school	42	university of michigan merchandise	13
university of michigan job	38	university of michigan wolverines	12
university of michigan business school	36	university of michigan job postings	12
university of michigan book store	28	university of michigan school of nursing	11
university of michigan employment	26	university of michigan housing	9
university of michigan football ticket	25	university of michigan music school	9
university of michigan alumnus	23	university of michigan store	9
		university of michigan web site	8
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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

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