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July 21, 2003
Sleep Disorders Center to double The Sleep Disorders Center (SDC) of the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers (UMHHC) will expand to an off-site location, doubling capacity from nine beds to 18. The SDC evaluates patients with known or suspected sleep disorders. Laboratory sleep studies are ordered when necessary. Currently, the center occupies a nine-bed unit…
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July 21, 2003
Crime alerts remain active The Department of Public Safety (DPS) issued three crime alerts within one month warning the University community about three serious incidents that were reported. A juvenile reported July 5 that he had been fondled by an unknown man on University property off West Liberty Avenue in Scio Township. In the second…
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July 21, 2003
Paul Pintrich Photo Courtesy School of Education Paul Pintrich, professor of education and psychology and chair of the Combined Program in Education and Psychology, died suddenly of a massive stroke at age 49, while on a bike tour. “He was dearly loved and greatly respected and admired by all his friends and colleagues within the…
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July 21, 2003
Regent Andrea Fischer Newman honors Dr. Lazar Greenfield for his service as interim executive vice president for medical affairs (EVPMA) for the U-M Health System, a position he has held for the past year. “In a time of great turmoil in the health care industry, Dr. Greenfield maintained the fiscal vitality of the Health System…
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July 21, 2003
Martha Jones, assistant professor of history and Afroamerican and African studies, has been named one of 25 recipients of a Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowship for 2003-04. During her month-long trip to New York, Jones will research her project, “‘All Bound Up Together’: The ‘Woman Question’ in African-American Public Culture. Bernitsas The Society…
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July 21, 2003
Donna Ferguson of Swartz Creek (left) and Dena Scully of Fenton examine bowls made by potter Dorothy Levin along the Ingalls Mall during the Ann Arbor Art Fairs. This year, the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair moved from its historical location along South University Avenue to the area around Burton Tower. About 1,170 artists exhibited…
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July 21, 2003
When NBC television personality Katie Couric underwent a colonoscopy live on national television in March 2000, she did more than raise public awareness of the powerful colon-cancer screening test—she also raised the rate at which Americans signed up to get their own colons checked. That’s the finding of a new study from researchers at the…
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July 21, 2003
Detroit Tigers first-year manager Alan Trammell pens his autograph on a pair of baseballs as Ashley Hamilton, 11, of Kalamazoo admires her new souvenir. (Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) As Brenda Suske of Livonia watched her son, Joe, talking with then-Detroit Tigers pitcher Adam Bernero, she recalled Joe’s days as a patient at…
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July 21, 2003
Lara Magourik of SNRE signs a copy of her book for Sierra Meehan, 12, during an event at the Neutral Zone. (Photo by Katie Gazella) Lara Magourik was out of college and in the business sector when she got her first lesson in networking—much too late, says the communication coordinator for the School of Natural…
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July 21, 2003
Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services Affirmative action foe Ward Connerly is greeted by a crowd mostly made up of opponents to his plan for placing an initiative on the Michigan ballot calling for elimination of racial preferences in hiring and college admissions. One group of students chanted, “Listen, Connerly, we say no. Affirmative…
