Duderstadt serves on CMS board
President James J. Duderstadt has been elected to the board of directors of the CMS Energy Corp., whose principal subsidiary is Consumers Power Co., the state’s largest utility and the nation’s fourth largest gas and electric utility.
Perlstadt named interim head of Michigan Public Health Institute
Harry Perlstadt, adjunct associate professor of health care at U-M-Flint, has been appointed interim executive director of the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI). MPHI is a cooperative venture of the state Department of Health, the U-M, and Michigan State and Wayne State universities. Its mission is to help develop and increase the capacity of the Department of Health and the three universities to carry out organized programs of policy development, planning, scientific research, service demonstration, evaluations, and education and training activities related to the health of Michigan citizens.
Lowe serves on NIH review group
John Lowe, associate professor of pathology, will serve until 1997 on the Pathobiochemistry Study Section, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Study sections review grant applications submitted to the NIH, make recommendations to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board, and survey the status of research in their fields of science.
Day heads association of university presses
Colin Day, director of the U-M Press, is president of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP). The 109 member presses of the AAUP annually publish nearly 8,000 books and more than 500 periodicals. For more than 50 years, the organization has worked “to encourage the dissemination of scholarly research and ideas.”
Flint staffer is on state board
Darwin C. Mathews, U-M-Flint development officer, has been reappointed by Gov. John Engler to the State Advisory Board to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. The board reviews grant applications from local historical societies and university and college archives in Michigan, and is a body of the National Archives.
Boehnke receives ASA award
Michael Boehnke, professor of biostatistics, has received the Sendocor Award from the American Statistical Association for the 1992 outstanding paper in applied statistics. His paper, “Bayesian Methods and Optimal Experimental Design for Gene Mapping by Radiation Hybrids,” was co-authored with Kenneth Lange of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Allen Menlo receives honorary professorship
Allen Menlo, professor emeritus of education, has been awarded an Honorary Professorship in the Russian Academy of Education’s Institute of Theoretical Pedagogics and International Research in Education, one of only three such elected appointments in the academy.
Pao named ’93 Lazerow Lecturer
Miranda Lee Pao, professor of information and library studies, is the 1993 Samuel Lazerow Lecturer at Texas Women’s University. The lectures honor Samuel Lazerow, a leader in library automation projects at the National Library of Medicine and the Library of Congress.
