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October 13, 2003
One of the Holocaust survivors whose story was told in the Oscar-winning Best Documentary Feature “The Last Days” will be awarded the 13th Wallenberg Medal at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in Rackham Auditorium. Provost Paul N. Courant will confer the medal on Bill Basch, who then will deliver the Wallenberg Lecture. Basch at age 17…
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October 13, 2003
The College of Pharmacy will use a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a lab focusing on molecular- and cellular-based approaches to drug design, targeting and delivery. The grant from NIH’s National Center for Research Resources Research Facilities Improvement Program will help fund a complete renovation of 8,000 square…
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October 13, 2003
Creating a fair system to measure poverty is complicated, and government officials and researchers can’t agree on a formula. It’s important to improve these measures so program benefits reach the right people, said Daniel Weinberg, chief of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division. Daniel Weinberg of the U.S. Census Bureau says…
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October 13, 2003
The final piece of structural steel is bolted into place on the Undergraduate Science Building (USB) Oct. 8 after a brief ceremony, which included ironworkers autographing the last I-beam. The placing of the pine tree is a centuries-old tradition in “topping out” ceremonies, which originally was done to honor the trees that provided lumber for…
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October 13, 2003
Lisa Patrell and daughters Meredith Patrell-Fazio, 10, and Evelyn Patrell-Fazio, 6, plant daffodil bulbs in the Nichols Arboretum. They were volunteers working on artist Susan Skarsgard’s project to plant 10,000 yellow daffodil bulbs. The line of flowers, Skarsgard says, might provoke thought and discussion among visitors about the “idea of lines, borders and imposed definitions.”…
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October 13, 2003
Seeming more reflective than reflexive, author and AIDS activist Larry Kramer spoke at Rackham Auditorium in an interview format with Dr. Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine. Known for his feisty personality, Kramer was soft-spoken as he looked back on his career as a screenwriter, novelist, playwright and social activist.…
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October 13, 2003
The School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) celebrates its 100th anniversary this month with an event honoring the school’s history and its newly renovated home—the Dana Building—which recently underwent an environmentally sensitive “green” transformation. Then … (Above) Forestry students in 1912 gather on the Diag in front of the West Medical Building (later to…
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October 13, 2003
Progress has been steady during negotiations between bargaining teams for the University and the Lecturers’ Employees Organization (LEO), a union representing approximately 1,500 non-tenure-track instructional staff on the Ann Arbor, Flint and Dearborn campuses. The parties began with a series of eight proposals presented by the union. At their session on Oct. 3 the union…
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October 6, 2003
Participation Rosina Bierbaum, dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, delivered the plenary address at the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting in New York. The Sept. 8 address, “Current Challenges for Climate Science,” was part of the Presidential Symposium on the Chemistry of Global Climate Change. Appointments Sioban Harlow, associate professor of epidemiology,…
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October 6, 2003
Above: Cast members Garrett Miller, Cathryn Basile, Jenni Barber and Paul Wyatt. Below: Barber and Wyatt in a scene from “Guys and Dolls,” playing Oct. 9-12 at the Michigan League’s Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. (Photos By Peter Smith Photography) The Musical Theatre Department will present the musical comedy “Guys and Dolls” at 8 p.m. Oct. 9-11…
