October 12, 2009
The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its Sept. 17 meeting. Final approval for Intercollegiate Soccer Stadium The regents authorized issuing the Intercollegiate Soccer Stadium project for bids and awarding construction contracts provided the bids are within budget. The project will provide seating and amenities for 1,800 spectators of men’s and…
October 12, 2009
September 2009 crime map > Items stolen in two office burglaries Items were stolen in each of two burglaries that were reported in September. A temporary office trailer used by construction managers with the Barton Malow Company at Michigan Stadium was broken into Sept. 29. Five laptop computers and a data projector were reported stolen…
October 12, 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.
October 12, 2009
Award Keith Johnson, general manager of Fleet and Garage Operations, was named Public Fleet Manager of the Year at the recent Michigan Clean Transportation Expo and Awards Gala, a celebration of Michigan’s up-and-coming clean transportation industry. Ten awards were presented to 11 advocates of clean transportation.
October 12, 2009
Robert and Shana Parke Harrison are photographers who continue to pursue what they describe as the ever-bleakening relationship linking humans, technology and nature. The exhibit is Oct. 16-Nov. 13 at the Art & Architecture Building, Slusser Gallery. It is sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series. (Photo by Robert and Shana Parke Harrison)
October 12, 2009
Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar (above) perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 15 at Hill Auditorium. “Most people are musicians simply because they play a certain instrument; when they play that instrument, the music appears. But Ravi — to me, he is the music; it just happens to be that he plays the sitar. And it’s…
October 12, 2009
Bill Joy, who designed and wrote Berkeley UNIX, called the backbone of the Internet, will present the 2009 Goff Smith lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Penny and Roe Stamps Auditorium, adjacent to the Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Drama Center. As chief scientist of Sun Microsystems, Joy was a key designer of Sun technologies…
October 12, 2009
All photos by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services.
October 12, 2009
An increase in cases of a rare type of head and neck cancer appears to be linked to HPV, or human papillomavirus, according to new Comprehensive Cancer Center research. The study looked at patients with nasopharyngeal cancer, a tumor that grows behind the nose and at the top of the throat, above the tonsils. This…
October 12, 2009
Latinas who spoke little English were less likely to undergo reconstruction surgery after a mastectomy for breast cancer, according to a study from researchers at the Comprehensive Cancer Center. The study compared breast reconstruction among white women, African-American women, Latina women who were highly acculturated and Latina women who were less acculturated. Acculturation is a…
