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September 8, 2008
Citing increasing concern over the escalating cost of the health care and retirement savings plans, University leaders have appointed two new committees to recommend changes aimed at reducing the overall rate of increase. The bill for health care coverage for employees and retirees coupled with contributions to the University’s retirement savings plan totaled almost $422…
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September 2, 2008
In 48 years at the U-M Golf Course, Charlie Green has known the sports greats and even met a president. “I like to tell people I’ve been blessed to be on a first-name basis with people here that you read about in books,” says Green, golf course manager. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services)…
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September 2, 2008
Professor Bertram Herzog, computer graphics pioneer and computer scientist, died July 11 at the age of 79. Herzog was director of the Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI) 1987-92, served as the first director of MERIT — the information-sharing network that served as the research forerunner to today’s Internet — during its critical formative years…
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September 2, 2008
Awards Dragomir Radev, associate professor in the School of Information, Department of Linguistics, and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was head coach to U.S. high school students who captured 11 awards including gold medals in individual and team events in the recent International Linguistics Olympiad in Slanchev Bryag, Bulgaria. Dr. Charles Koopmann,…
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September 2, 2008
Communism, self-identity and art are topics of Copernicus Lecture The pierced bodies, grotesque demons and masked faces of artist Stasys Eidrigevicius were shaped by a communist world in which people learned to hide who they really were and seek new, private identities. Artist Stasys Eidrigevicus holds one of his masks, which he calls “smutki.” (Photo…
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September 2, 2008
“Heaven on Earth” is from the exhibit Postcards from Paradise: Color Photography by Dale Fisher. The artist has been working for the last two years photographing a family of swans. Fisher is founder of a mentorship program for children on his farm near Grass Lake, where he owns two art galleries. The exhibit is through…
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September 2, 2008
“Queen of Hearts” is from the exhibit Cinderella’s Revenge: Shoes & Mixed Media by David Ian Grant through Oct. 13 in the Cancer Center main lobby, Level B2. The exhibit features a set of nine high-heeled shoes. Each shoe has been painted, collaged, appliqued and otherwise added to. Sponsored by Gifts of Art. (Photo by…
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September 2, 2008
Kerwin Kofi Charles, left, University of Chicago and Ford School Scholar in Residence, will address labor economics among other issues from 4-5:30 p.m. Sept. 15 and 17 in Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium Room 1120. David Marash, right, has served as chief international correspondent for ABC News Nightline and has anchored the news from Washington for…
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September 2, 2008
Women and war: The toll of deployment on physical health More than 80 percent of a sample of Air Force women deployed in Iraq and other areas around the world report suffering from persistent fatigue, fever, hair loss and difficulty concentrating, a study indicates. The pattern of health problems reported by 1,114 women surveyed in…
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September 2, 2008
See U-M students teach and mentor children from Detroit-based Latino Family Services > View a Spanish version of the slideshow > Second- and third-graders at the Latino Family Services in Detroit swarm graduate student Hsun-Ta Hsu as they excitedly reach for a free toothbrush. Hsu, who taught a workshop this summer about the importance of…
