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Fall 2009<br />
Pretty in pink<br />
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University, Rochester, MI<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=1"> Fall 2009 Pretty in pink</a>
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<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=5"> Letters Welcome to OU Magazine’s Letters sectio</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=6"> News Cinema STUDIES Lights,camera — action! </a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=7"> News Abdul Kalam speaks at OU India’s former pr</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=8"> News Patrice Chapman-Holm Dr.Robert Folberg </a>
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<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=12"> News OU welcomes new SECS dean Louay M. Chamra,</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=13"> News New wheels on campus Two new forms of tran</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=14"> Giving Alumnus gives for the future For David S</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=15"> Giving Exploring energy Two Oakland University </a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=16"> Sports SportsWrap-Up Athletic— and academic — </a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=17"> Sports A tough season The women’s tennis team f</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=18"> Mind game Professional golfer sets sights on LPG</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=19"> “I feel very about my e right n – Cheryl</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=20"> An every day hero FBI agent has gone from s</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=21"> “It wiped out that entire chapter of the</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=22"> Global etiquette By Susan Thwing-McHale </a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=23"> “We are light years behind other cultures in civi</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=24"> High-tech success story OU </a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=25"> daughter to the payroll, he consulted his kitchen</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=26"> Clear vision OU researchers focus on stem ce</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=27"> they divide, can replicate themselves to produce </a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=28"> prematurity (ROP). Macular degeneration, a loss o</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=29"> nucleus pulposus (the jelly-like substance in the</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=30"> The U.S. economy — the fury and its wake By Sus</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=31"> It was the perfect storm. A combination of factor</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=32"> OU Magazine spoke to five university exper</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=33"> (Left to right) Graham Cassano, assistant profess</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=34"> “There’s no doubt that the Michigan econom</a>
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<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=36"> Life lesson Phoebe and Dr.Harr</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=37"> a Capuchin Brother who was serving as a nurse in </a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=38"> “Dark matter is still a mystery, and altho</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=39"> Garfinkle has co-authored a book </a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=40"> Role playing Professor </a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=41"> Petite and self-effacing, she peppers her </a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=42"> Pretty in pink Hard work paves the way to well-h</a>
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<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=44"> Prime time with the President Local executive at</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=45"> Corona should know. He researches how to a</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=46"> Half a world away OU hockey player competes </a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=47"> Samp and Team USA left for China in mid-Fe</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=48"> Alumni Check out what we’ve been up to! OUAA Boa</a>
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<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 60" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=60"> Alumni Water works Marc Dutton, SBA ’71, knows h</a>
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<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 62" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=62"> Alumni Mike Brown, CAS ‘05, has been named prog</a>
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<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 64" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=64"> Alumni Nick Schillace has recorded two solo alb</a>
<a title="OU Magaine - Fall 2009 page 65" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/545c0222?page=65"> Alumni DEATHS Alice Warr Assaf, CAS ‘75, died Mar</a>
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