November 2, 2009
The success story of 2007 graduate Jawuan Meeks shows what is possible for Detroit students who apply to attend U-M, President Mary Sue Coleman told Detroit Public Schools principals and counselors, assembled Oct. 27 at the Detroit Center for the 2009 Wolverine Outreach Workshop Reception. President Mary Sue Coleman greets Rosalind Stewart, guidance counselor at…
November 2, 2009
University officials welcome the campus community to celebrate the opening of the Confucius Institute at U-M on Thursday. Powers The day’s events will culminate at 7:30 p.m. in Rackham Auditorium, where members of the Chinese Ensemble of Renmin University of China will present a performance of Chinese music, featuring internationally renowned pipa artist Yang Wei.…
October 26, 2009
Ryan N. Wilcox is a technology guru by day and his wife’s comic book career manager by night. Not unlike the protagonists in many comic books, Wilcox and his wife, illustrator Katie Cook, maintain double lives, each attending their 9-5 jobs and then rendezvousing at home for hours of brainstorming, storyboarding and illustrating. (Photo by…
October 26, 2009
The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its Oct. 15 meeting. Electrical feed to be updated The Administrative Services Building will have its electrical feed updated with the construction of a small enclosure to house a new 13.2 kilovolt substation. University investment proceeds will fund the $2 million project that is…
October 26, 2009
Police Beat is a monthly feature. The next publication will be Nov. 16.
October 26, 2009
R. T. (Tom) Lenaghan, professor emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature, died Oct. 2. Lenaghan achieved a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1949, attended Yale Law School from 1949-50, and completed Master of Arts and doctoral degrees at Harvard in 1957. After spending 1959-61 at UCLA, he…
October 26, 2009
Awards Dr. Carol Kauffman, chief of infectious diseases at the Veterans Administration Ann Arbor Healthcare System and professor of internal medicine in the Medical School, recently was presented the Great Internists of Michigan award by the Michigan chapter of the American College of Physicians. The award recognizes physicians who have demonstrated outstanding clinical abilities and…
October 26, 2009
The Center for Chinese Studies and The Global Lens 2009 Film Series presents “Getting Home” by director Zhang Yang, 3-5 p.m. Tuesday in the School of Social Work Building, Room 1636. In this comedy, Zhao, a middle-aged construction worker, struggles to fulfill a dying co-worker’s last wish. A second showing is at 5 p.m., 764-6308.…
October 26, 2009
Named for founding violinist Corina Belcea, the Belcea Quartet is a popular young chamber ensemble from Europe with a wide-ranging repertoire and a devotion to unusual projects. They perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 30 at Rackham Auditorium. Sponsored by the University Musical Society, 764-2538. (Photo by Sheila Rock)
October 26, 2009
Seyhan Nurettin Ege, the first tenured woman at U-M and first woman to become full professor on the faculty of the Department of Chemistry, will be honored in a symposium in her name from 8:30 a.m.-noon Tuesday in the Rackham Amphitheater. The Seyhan N. Ege Memorial Symposium honors Ege, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor…
