April 21, 2008
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April 21, 2008
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.
April 21, 2008
Awards Professors Jim Allen, Roberto Merlin, Mark Newman and Ctirad Uher are among a group selected for the Outstanding Referee designation from the 42,000 active reviewers of journals of the American Physical Society. The award program recognizes scientists who have been helpful in assessing manuscripts submitted to APS journals.
April 21, 2008
ABC News anchor and special correspondent Bob Woodruff, who was seriously injured while reporting from Iraq, drew upon his professional and personal experiences as he offered messages of hope to the graduating class of 2008. “You have the power and the influence to affect change,” said Woodruff, who received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree…
April 21, 2008
Faculty governance during the past two years Editor’s note: The following is a reprint of the faculty governance monthly report to the Board of Regents. Portions may have been edited for space by members of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs. The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA) has asked me, at the…
April 21, 2008
The University Musical Society season closes with the second two-concert installment of András Schiff’s Beethoven Sonata Project at 8 p.m. April 22 at Rackham Auditorium. Beethoven’s 32 sonatas were written between 1795 and 1822. The series of performances offers an overview of Beethoven’s stylistic development as he progressed through his early, middle and late periods,…
April 21, 2008
The Spirit of Place: Oil Paintings by Laurie Schirmer Carpenter, seeks to depict the quiet beauty of landscapes. Painting on linen, canvas or panel, Carpenter works to capture the timeless quality of the land while giving the impression of a particular place at a set point in time. Her paintings, including “Day’s End (August),” above,…
April 21, 2008
Performing mostly on toys in the key of C, Frank Pahl, Doug Shimmin and Terri Serris seek to elevate bric-a-brac to fine art. Their band Little Bang Theory performs on old music boxes, toy pianos and drums, glockenspiels, xylophones, melodicas, cowbells, woodblocks and baritone ukuleles. They will appear at 12:10 p.m. May 1 in the…
April 21, 2008
The U-M Museum of Art (UMMA) has received more than 40 drawings, paintings on paper and prints by some of the most sought after avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka. The gifts are from the late Ernst Pulgram, professor emeritus of romance and classical linguistics at the…
April 21, 2008
Find out why only 30 percent of children’s medications are government-approved > Many parents are under the assumption that any medicine prescribed by a health care provider for their child are safe and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in children. But are they right? Some may be surprised to…
