June 2, 2003
Peter Balogh of the U-M Solar Car Team and guests observe the new design for a solar-powered vehicle May 23. The team hopes to extend its record as the most successful solar car team in history as it seeks its fourth victory in the American Solar Challenge. Dubbed SpectruM, this year’s car is part of…
June 2, 2003
Timothy Slottow has been recommended for appointment as executive vice president and chief financial officer of U-M by President Mary Sue Coleman. Slottow (Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) The appointment, announced May 22, would be for three years effective June 1, pending approval by the Board of Regents. Slottow has served as interim…
June 2, 2003
Four U-M research teams received $7.28 million of funding from the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor in grants announced May 28 by the state of Michigan. This year the corridor awarded grants totaling $30 million allocated from the state’s tobacco settlement money to encourage life sciences product development and economic growth in Michigan. The U-M projects…
June 2, 2003
The Center for Individual Rights (CIR), the law firm representing the plaintiffs in two admissions lawsuits against U-M, last week issued a public retraction of a statement critical of the University’s handling of affirmative action data after the University produced proof that CIR had received the material several years ago. The University also strongly rebutted…
May 19, 2003
Regents view concepts for Law School additions Architect Renzo Piano presented planning concepts for additional classrooms, student support spaces and faculty offices for the Law School. The conceptual goals identified include adding a building for classrooms and offices at the southeast corner of the current complex to complete the quadrangle, and to reveal the south-side,…
May 19, 2003
CRIME ALERT Department of Public Safety DATE: May 19, 2003 LOCATION: 1300 South University SUMMARY: Two suspects armed with a kitchen knife took victim’s wallet and backpack SUSPECT: #1) Black male, 20 yrs., 6’5″, 170 lbs, clean shaven, red jersey, jeans and light brown boots #2) White male, 20 yrs., 5’10”, 190 lbs, unshaven, short…
May 19, 2003
Herbert Cornish, SPH professor emeritus Herbert Cornish, professor emeritus of environmental and industrial health at the School of Public Health (SPH), died April 25 at his home in Ypsilanti. He was 86. Cornish was born Sept. 22, 1916, in Fremont, Ohio, and he married Grace Heater in 1943. He received his undergraduate degrees in science…
May 19, 2003
Awards Edwards Paul Edwards, associate professor in the School of Information, has been named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The two-year award of almost $100,000 will support his work on a book about South African “technopolitics”the strategic practice of designing or implementing technologies to enact political goals. Edwards also is…
May 19, 2003
She’s no Quasimodo, but she’s been hanging out in bell towers for most of her adult life. Margo Halsted, associate professor of music (camponology) and official University carillonist, has been serenading the campus and Ann Arbor community from the top of the Burton Memorial Tower on the central campus since her arrival at U-M in…
