In a recent study by University of Michigan and other institutions, including Washington University in St. Louis and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, identified distinct biomarkers that could help to identify and diagnose unique subtypes of renal cell carcinoma. The study, published May 3 in Cell Reports Medicine, was headed by Alexey Nesvizhskii, professor of bioinformatics and pathology, and focused on identifying a rarer category of the cancer to help to develop more specific treatments in the future.  Renal cell carcinoma accounts for approximately nine out of 10 cases of ..read more

The Ann Arbor City Council met in Larcom City Hall Monday night for a work session to discuss a proposed transfer of four prominent state-owned trunk lines to city ownership. Jake Vissers, a senior transportation planner with consulting firm Sam Schwartz, reviewed a cost-benefit analysis of the transfer and outlined possible courses of action for the council during the work session. The city has been considering the ownership transfer for several months and hired Schwartz last December to perform a feasibility study. The report, shared with City Council in February, assessed the potential ben ..read more

In March, Jazz Parks, interim superintendent of Ann Arbor Public Schools, announced that there would be a $25-million budget deficit projected for 2024. Last month, the Board of Education voted to approve a plan that would save $20.4 million through large cuts to staff, music programs and elementary-level specials classes. This vote came after several hours of public commentary from teachers, parents and students, who addressed the board, asking them to reject this plan. Several factors contributed to the budget shortage, including $14 million in state support from last year’s budget that was ..read more

As the 2024 presidential election approaches, the issue of higher education affordability has taken center stage. President Joe Biden, presumptive Democratic nominee, former President Donald Trump, presumptive Republican nominee and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have each proposed plans to address the growing student debt crisis. Biden has prioritized affordable higher education in his latest budget proposal, aiming to reduce college costs and ease the student debt burden. The budget includes a $12 billion devoted to the Reducing the Costs of College Fund to lower expenses throu ..read more

About 35 people gathered at the Ann Arbor Senior Center Monday afternoon for a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the new solar panel installations around Ann Arbor which will provide over 500 kilowatts of solar power. The ceremony was part of Ann Arbor’s fourth annual A2Zero Week, which celebrates the city’s plan towards transitioning the community to carbon neutrality.  A2Zero is a city-wide plan unanimously adopted in 2020 to transition to complete carbon neutrality by 2030. This objective includes transitioning the electrical grid to 100% renewable energy, switching to electric veh ..read more

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In Netflix’s 2017 “Kodachrome,” an ode to the end of Kodak’s film stock of the same name, fictional photojournalist Ben Ryder (Ed Harris) makes an apocryphal observation. “People are taking more pictures now than ever before,” the character muses. “Billions of ‘em. But, there’s no slides, no prints. They’re just data, electronic dust. Years from now, when they dig us up, there won’t be any pictures to find. No record of who we were, how we lived.” Ryder, inspired by Steve McCurry — the photographer of “Afghan Girl” — was, in some ways, a swan song to a philosophy of permanence, a time when a ..read more

If you had asked me at any point before approximately two weeks ago what I thought of my hometown, I would have given you a 10-minute spiel on how I would never return to that god-forsaken place. But, as I stood in my driveway at 3 a.m. two Tuesdays ago amidst the brisk, 60-degree air and smelt the faint scent of lawn fertilizer and oak trees, crying over a Dollar General that hadn’t been there over winter break, I would tell you that my answer has changed.  If you had asked me a month ago to tell you about my experience growing up in Spring Lake, Michigan, a sleepy town not even five mi ..read more

Everyone and their mother are crushing on Chappell Roan this summer. With celebrity endorsements ranging from the past month to 10 years ago — including Elton John, RuPaul and Troye Sivan — she is truly your favorite artist’s favorite artist.  Although I’d been scrolling past buzz about Roan for months, I didn’t hop on the bandwagon until I came across a clip of her Tiny Desk Concert while lounging around one weekend this past March. Soft afternoon light filtered through my window as I scrolled on my phone and encountered the post. “You have 50 seconds to live,” it read, captioning a vid ..read more

I’ve cried over plenty of different things since I was 16. Long forgotten fights with friends, bad test scores and high school dances gone wrong have all left mascara streaming down my cheeks. Not to mention all the happy tears I’ve shed for college acceptance letters and from laughing too hard in the Walmart parking lot. But for four years, the location of my tears has remained the same: the driver’s seat of my 22-year-old Honda CR-V. She’s been practically on her deathbed since she first came into my possession, but I like to believe I’ve been willing her to keep on living just for me. I ha ..read more