November 9, 2009
Academic units and the Registrar’s Office will begin sharing classroom-scheduling responsibilities for classes that meet between 8 a.m. and noon, effective for the Fall Term 2010 curriculum planning period. The new shared scheduling approach will help the Registrar’s Office meet classroom needs campuswide and make better use of U-M space, and faculty, staff and student…
November 9, 2009
Robert and Ann Aikens have made a $10 million gift to the Law School for its ongoing building expansion and renovation project. Robert Aikens of Bloomfield Hills is chairman of Robert B. Aikens & Associates LLC, a commercial real estate development and management firm based in suburban Detroit, and a 1954 alumnus of the Law…
November 9, 2009
Members of the campus community are encouraged to attend one of two upcoming informational meetings about the university plan for a smoke-free campus. The meetings are 4:30-6 p.m. Thursday in Palmer Commons Forum Hall, and 5-6:30 p.m. Nov. 19 in Stamps Auditorium on North Campus. President Mary Sue Coleman announced in April the plan for…
November 2, 2009
Some kids grow up wanting to be a rock star. Crystal Borgman became one, at least locally. Borgman, a desktop support specialist at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, spends her extra hours playing drums in a local band, Lagerhaus5. “The name was derived from my husband’s and the lead guitarist’s shared love…
November 2, 2009
Police Beat is a monthly feature. The next publication will be Nov. 16.
November 2, 2009
The Record accepts obituaries from University departments, family members and funeral homes acting on behalf of the family. All obituaries must be for active or retired faculty and staff members.
November 2, 2009
Award Dr. Eva Feldman, director of the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute and Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology at the Medical School, is president-elect of the American Neurological Association, a professional society of academic neurologists and neuroscientists. She will become president in two years. The association educates physicians in the neurosciences and works…
November 2, 2009
The Navy’s retired top lawyer and a retired brigadier general and psychiatrist will join Michigan Law graduate Elisa Massimino for a panel discussion on how best to keep the United States safe in a post-Guantanamo Bay world. The panel discussion, organized by the Law School‘s Office of Public Service, is set for 4-6 p.m. Nov.…
November 2, 2009
The film “I Am From Titov Veles” is presented at 2:30-4 p.m. and at 4-5:30 p.m. Nov. 3 at the School of Social Work Building, Room 1636. Three sisters put self-interest above family as they take steps to escape their dying community. (Macedonian with English subtitles). It is sponsored by the Center for Russian and…
November 2, 2009
The St. Lawrence String Quartet performs at 4 p.m. Nov. 8 at Rackham Auditorium. Together for 20 years, the group, which regularly plays a traditional quartet repertoire, also is committed to performing and expanding the works of living composers. Sponsored by the University Musical Society, 764-2538. (Photo by Marco Borggreve)
