August 11, 2008
Pat Phalin learned she had hearing loss at 30 when she volunteered to give hearing tests at her local school. The pupils heard sounds she could not hear. Her husband Larry, a genealogy enthusiast, saw a pattern in his wife’s family history. Her mother, grandfather and great-grandfather had severe hearing loss as adults. One of…
August 11, 2008
Open Enrollment for benefits will take place Oct. 13-24. During the two-week period, benefits-eligible faculty and staff members, graduate students and retirees can elect new benefits or change benefit enrollments for the 2009 calendar year. Open Enrollment books will be distributed in early October to employees by Campus Mail. More information, including 2009 benefit plan…
August 11, 2008
Watch a video about U-M academic summer camps > The summer sun streams through windows of a U-M lab as 10 ninth-grade girls program small robots to move along black lines on a white background. The MPulse Ann Arbor summer performing arts program for high school students presented this summer by the School of Music,…
August 11, 2008
Laura Lein, a poverty expert at the University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as dean of the School of Social Work, pending approval by the Board of Regents. President Mary Sue Coleman and Provost Teresa Sullivan, in consultation with the board’s Personnel, Compensation and Governance Committee, announced Lein’s appointment, which is effective Jan.…
July 28, 2008
Keeping the media happy may seem like a difficult job for some, but not for U-M Health System‘s Kara Gavin. (Photo by Scott Soderberg, U-M Photo Services) “I think the key is I was trained as a reporter, so I know where they’re coming from,” says Gavin, lead public relations representative. Experience in how to…
July 28, 2008
The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its July 17 meeting. Renovations planned at LSI for electron microscopy A new suite will be created from unfinished space at the Life Sciences Institute (LSI) to support three new cryo-electron microscopes that will provide high-resolution specimen images free of the distortion traditional electron…
July 28, 2008
Police Beat is a monthly feature of the University Record. The next publication date is August 11.
July 28, 2008
Dorwin Cartwright Dorwin “Doc” Cartwright, one of the founders of the field of group dynamics, died of chronic renal failure July 18 in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 93. “Doc Cartwright was one of the pioneers in the field,” says social psychologist James S. Jackson, director of the Institute for Social Research (ISR), where Cartwright…
July 28, 2008
Awards Dr. Margit Burmeister, research professor at the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, professor in the Department of Psychiatry and professor in the Department of Human Genetics has been selected by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia And Depression (NARSAD) to receive its prestigious Distinguished Investigator Award. NARSAD, the world’s leading charity dedicated to…
July 28, 2008
Peggy Norgren’s relentless dedication and engaging personality will be remembered across campus and especially in Business & Finance for many years to come. Norgren, associate vice president for finance, died Aug. 4 at the age of 51. She was born in Evergreen Park, Ill. “Peggy will be terribly missed in our organization,” says Executive Vice…
