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October 6, 2003
Ronald Kessler, professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, speaks about “How many people are mentally ill in America? A review of the controversy,” Oct. 1 at the School of Social Work (SSW). He has been associated with the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) and the Department of…
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October 6, 2003
Depression research at U-M soon will have a new home, thanks in part to a new $4 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant. The grant will help fund construction of an entire floor of research space in the Depression Center and Ambulatory Psychiatry facility that will be built at the U-M Health System’s East…
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October 6, 2003
Subscribers to Michigan Today’s new monthly newsletter can read the latest news of interest to the University community, hear U-M poets reading their works, learn about word origins and revisit classic movies with a University film scholar as their guide. NewsE, which is distributed through e-mail, is an extension of the print publication, Michigan Today.…
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October 6, 2003
Student Jeremy Goldschmeding makes a transaction with teller Dave Marshall at the Central Cashier’s Office. The office is moving because the LSA building is closing for renovations. The Cashier’s Office will be closed Oct. 13-14 and will reopen Oct. 15 at 777 N. University, on the second floor of the Comerica Bank building at the…
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October 6, 2003
Life Sciences Institute Senior Research Scientist Kun-Liang Guan shows off his lab’s new room for preparing chemicals. Guan’s lab was first to move into the 230,000-square-foot Institute building last week, taking up residence on the sixth floor. One or two more labs will move in to the building each week through mid-December. Guan’s group is…
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October 6, 2003
When Dr. Charles Koopmann Jr. first entered academia more than 20 years ago, he shared the opinion of many of his peers about faculty governance: So what? “Initially, it was who cares?’ It doesn’t make any difference anyway,’ I don’t have time for it,’ it’s boring’—a whole bunch of excuses,” says Koopmann, professor and associate…
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October 6, 2003
Women at the University continue to make progress in employment, retention and enrollment, but U-M still has more to accomplish to achieve gender equality, President Mary Sue Coleman said, citing a new report, “Women at the University of Michigan: A Statistical Report on the Status of Women Students, Faculty and Staff on the Ann Arbor…
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October 6, 2003
Crossing her own bridge of sorts into a second full academic year as president, Mary Sue Coleman says building bridges, both physical and metaphorical, is important in attempting to link the University’s many facets. Delivering her “State of the University” address to the Faculty Senate Assembly Sept. 29, Coleman used the recent opening of a…
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September 29, 2003
Appointments Diane Kaplan Vinokur , associate professor of social work, has been named vice president of membership for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). ARNOVA is an international, interdisciplinary membership organization. Awards Joseph Grengs , assistant professor of urban planning, won the Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for Best Dissertation in…
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September 29, 2003
Renowned AIDS activist to speak Oct. 7 at Rackham Larry Kramer, an internationally renowned author, playwright and AIDS activist, will deliver the third annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities at 8 p.m. Oct. 7 in Rackham Auditorium. He is author of the best-selling novel “Faggotts,” and a book of political writings, “Reports…
