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October 20, 2003
Allied Works Architecture, a firm that has earned several prestigious museum commissions, has been chosen to oversee a major expansion and renovation of the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA). The $35 million project will include a 55,000-square-foot addition, as well as a complete renovation of the existing facility. The Museum Apse at UMMA. (Photo by…
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October 13, 2003
G. Brymer Williams G. Brymer Williams, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, died Sept. 19, less than a month short of his 90th birthday. He was associated with the U-M chemical engineering department for 68 years, longer than anybody else. Brymer was born in Denver, where he started studying chemical engineering, but transferred to U-M in…
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October 13, 2003
Appointments Mark Tessler, the Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science, has been named director of the Center for Political Studies in the Institute for Social Research. He also has received a grant from the U.S. State Department for work on public opinion research in three Arab countries, entitled “Building Capacity for Public Opinion…
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October 13, 2003
(Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) Maureen Mahoney—a member of the U-M defense team in Grutter v. Bollinger et al., the U.S. Supreme Court case that challenged the use of affirmative action in the University’s Law School admission policies—will discuss the affirmative action cases at 4 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Power Center for…
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October 13, 2003
Faculty members at the Medical School travel around the world speaking about their research and ways to improve the medical community. This knowledge now will be available within the U-M community with the creation of the Dean’s Lecture Series. “We have almost 90 endowed professorships, which are invited all around the world to tell about…
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October 13, 2003
Memories of Sundays in South Carolina led Marianetta Porter to research what she calls Black church fans—objects that Porter says have been a ubiquitous presence in Black churches for nearly a century. (Above) “But Jesus said” (photographer: Marianetta Porter) (Below) “Stories told in Sunday school” (illustrator: Susan Skarsgard) and “Dreams of Childhood” (photographer: Karen Sanders)…
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October 13, 2003
As part of the University’s commitment to help faculty and staff meet the challenge of balancing work obligations with family commitments, the U-M Work/Life Resource Center offers “Kids Kare at Home.” Kids Kare at Home is a safe and secure emergency back-up option when childcare falls through, program manager Shelly Fox-Emmett says. For example, if…
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October 13, 2003
Courtesy Bradley Smith Bradley Smith, associate professor and director of biomedical visualization in the School of Art & Design and associate professor in radiology, will present a lecture at 5 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Michigan Theater. Admission is free. Smith’s research explores the relationship of scientific and artistic prenatal imagery to social and political…
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October 13, 2003
When Nancy Bates, interim key administrator for the Department of Physics, stepped foot on campus in 1953, U-M was a vastly different place than we know today. “When I came (to U-M), there were 13,900 students, curfews in the dorms and women couldn’t go in the front door of the Union,” Bates says. “There was…
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October 13, 2003
The SARS virus is capable of changing rapidly and unpredictably, which could present serious challenges for managing the disease and developing drugs and vaccines to combat it, research at U-M suggests. Ever since the SARS virus suddenly appeared in humans, scientists have been speculating about its origins and relationships to other, similar viruses. Using evolutionary…
