October 12, 2009
Learn more about the Peace Corps at U-M > As Peace Corps volunteers, John Greisberger and his wife taught English as a foreign language to students in Afghanistan. “It was a terrific experience,” says Greisberger, director of the International Center. “The teaching conditions were far from ideal. There were no books or chalkboards — sometimes,…
October 12, 2009
Related stories:President launches sustainability initiative >Record number of U-M inventions reported last year > President Mary Sue Coleman described what she called the university’s “achievements and challenges” in her State of the University message, during which she announced an increased emphasis on sustainability and highlighted U-M’s role in the state’s economy, the promise of expanded…
October 5, 2009
For some people, eating locally grown food is one way to support the local economy, promote environmentally friendly farming habits and create a strong sense of community. For Garin Fons, it “just comes down to the fact that local food tastes better.” (Photo by Austin Thomason, U-M Photo Services) Fons, an open education specialist in…
October 5, 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 5, 2009
Police Beat is a monthly feature. The next publication will be Oct. 12.
October 5, 2009
Mogens Jensen Mogens Jensen, the first registrar at the UM-Flint, died Sept. 20 at Genesys Hospice Care Center in Goodrich. He was 85. Jensen, of Grand Blanc, was born in Denmark in 1924. He moved to the United States then married Jean Horton in 1955 in Ann Arbor. He attended Michigan State University, where he…
October 5, 2009
Award Dr. James Ashton-Miller, the Albert Schultz Collegiate Research Professor and distinguished research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering, and a research professor at the Institute of Gerontology in the Department of Internal Medicine, was honored in August with the Borelli Award by the American Society of Biomechanics. This…
October 5, 2009
Concert: Alisa Weilerstein, cello, 8 p.m. Thursday, Hill Auditorium. The 26-year-old American cellist is “arguably Yo-Yo Ma’s heir as sovereign of the American cello,” says New York Magazine’s Justin Davidson. “Weilerstein plays classical music, but with the depth of soul and raw emotional energy of a diehard rocker,” says the Toronto Star. Sponsored by the…
October 5, 2009
Several members of the U-M Jazz Band that toured Latin America and the Caribbean in 1965 will sit in on two numbers performed on that tour with Ellen Rowe’s U-M Jazz Ensemble in a performance at 8 p.m. Oct. 22 at Rackham Auditorium. (Photo courtesy U-M Jazz Band) The tour opened 15 months after the…
October 5, 2009
President Mary Sue Coleman will update the campus community on U-M accomplishments, challenges and opportunities — including next steps for the North Campus Research Complex, how U-M is addressing sustainability, and how it is faring in the economic downturn — when she delivers the State of the University Address 3:30-5 p.m. today in the Stephen…
