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May 27, 2008
Students in residence halls will pay an average of 4.9 percent more for room and board next academic year, following May 15 approval of 2008-09 housing rates by the Board of Regents. The basic rate per student for a double room with a standard meal plan will be $8,591, an increase of $401 from the…
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May 27, 2008
The Committee for a Multicultural University (CMU), chaired by Professor B. J. Evans (emeritus, chemistry), recently has generated a report with recommendations that the Senate Assembly accepted at its April 2008 meeting www.umich.edu/~sacua/cmu/CMUReport2008.pdf. The report, the first of its kind since 1994, included the following CMU findings: • Overall in 2008, Asians make up 14.2…
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May 27, 2008
A team of students from the U-M-Dearborn will compete against four other universities from around the world “to dream big and create a Model T concept for the 21st century.” The competition, announced May 12 by Ford Motor Co. executives at the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, challenges the students “to create a revolutionary…
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May 27, 2008
If you stayed warm last winter while waiting for a University bus, you might want to thank the VOICES of the Staff Parking and Transportation Team, which worked with U-M Parking and Transportation Services to get heat for bus shelters. The two groups also collaborated to increase the number of less-expensive orange parking spaces, extend…
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May 27, 2008
The Workplace Awards Selection Committee has announced Staff Recognition Award finalists and winners. They will be honored during a luncheon June 5 at the Michigan Union. The honorees for Workplace 2008: University of Michigan Staff Recognition Awards are: The Distinguished Service Award Finalists: Scott Stanfill, biophysics, LSABonnie Loepke, periodontics and oral medicine, School of Dentistry…
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May 27, 2008
Using a new electric stretcher system purchased with grant money from Michigan Healthy Community’s Ergonomics Awareness program, the U-M Health System medical transport team will be transporting isolettes, self-contained incubators for babies, with reduced risk of injury to themselves and their tiny patients. “Our patients may only weigh a few pounds, however, the equipment we…
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May 27, 2008
The Kelsey Museum has received a federal grant to help finance the preservation of a series of dramatic paintings in its permanent collection. The paintings depict a famous fresco cycle at the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii, Italy. The $160,000 Conservation Project Support grant, announced by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, aims…
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May 27, 2008
The Board of Regents May 15 authorized construction of a roadway through the U-M-Flint campus. The estimated $1.9-million project, to be funded by a grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, will reconnect two sections of East Kearsley Street. William Webb, assistant vice chancellor for administration at U-M-Flint, says the 1,000-foot-long corridor will be a…
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May 27, 2008
A new journalism program that emphasizes online and community news was approved at the May 15 meeting of the Board of Regents for a fall launch at U-M-Flint. The program will be the only journalism degree offered by U-M. “As a former Mike Wallace Investigative Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan, I’m proud to…
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May 27, 2008
Steven Ball, a carillonneur and graduate student instructor, will ring the bell at Burton Tower as the U-M Health System observes the one-year anniversary of the Transplant/Survival Flight team tragedy. In June 2007 six members of the Transplant/Survival Flight team died in a plane crash while transporting procured organs from Milwaukee. A reception is set…
