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March 24, 2008
Editor’s note: The following viewpoint was written in response to the recent series of articles in the Ann Arbor News about athletics and academics at the University. Although the Ann Arbor News declined to print it unless President Mary Sue Coleman agreed to an editorial board visit with the paper’s staff, it is being made…
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March 17, 2008
When Hospital Communications Operator Roger Banks starts his workday at U-M Hospital, there’s no time to ease in; he just dives headfirst. (Photo by Lin Jones, U-M Photo Services) “It’s really rewarding to help the customers who are upset or need assistance,” he says. “In most cases, the person is appreciative that someone has taken…
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March 17, 2008
Robert Iglehart Robert Leslie Iglehart, professor emeritus of art and former head of the Art School, died March 10 at Arbor Hospice. Iglehart was born in Baltimore, Md., and graduated from the Maryland Institute of Art, which awarded him a scholarship for a year’s travel in Europe. His interests were wide and he shared his…
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March 17, 2008
Awards Peretz Friedmann, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Aerospace Engineering, has been selected to present the 2009 Dryden Lectureship in Research for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The lectureship emphasizes the importance of basic research to advancement in aeronautics and astronautics. Patricia Wittkopp, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and assistant professor of…
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March 17, 2008
Director Bruno Monsaingeon, whose critically acclaimed films about influential musicians, including Glenn Gould, Yehudi Menuhin and Michael Tilson Thomas, will meet with students and classes this week through March 21 at the Residential College (RC) and the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. The RC is collaborating with Ars Poetica Chamber Orchestra and its music…
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March 17, 2008
An eight-panel mosaic featuring native Michigan ecosystems is scheduled for installation in May at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. The mosaics, by Yulia Hanaasen of Mosaic Sphere Studios of Ann Arbor, include “Deciduous,” above, and “River.” Volunteers have been helping to glue the mosaic tiles to cement boards, grout the tiles and insert the mosaics into metal…
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March 17, 2008
Jennifer Rossetti, Jennifer Trombley and George Cornelius perform a scene from Dominck Argento’s opera “Postcard from Morocco,” presented March 20-23 by the University Opera Theatre at the Mendelssohn Theatre. Set in a train station in 1914, seven travelers, who are characterized by the objects that they carry, share the frank conversation, dreams and lies that…
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March 17, 2008
The dance troupes Urban Bush Women and Compagnie Jant-Bi explore the role of community, the cultural and spiritual traditions of African-Americans, and the African diaspora in performances March 28-29 at the Power Center for the Performing Arts. For ticket information and show times, go to ums.org or call 764-2538. (Photo by Antoine Tempe)
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March 17, 2008
Watch a video about this exhibit > An exhibit with “aging” in the title is bound to deal with the tribulations of geriatrics. So it is with “Aging with Attitude” in which there are the familiar images: An elderly person resting in a wheelchair. Several generations of women and men captured in black-and-white photos. And,…
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March 17, 2008
Exhibit curator Robert Goldstein discusses “Caricature and the 1905 Russian Revolution” > At a time when there was no radio, TV, cinema or the Internet, newspapers and journals exclusively carried the news of the day. With a single, provocative illustrated caricature aimed at the status quo, a defiant chord was struck. The results could be…
