May 5, 2003
U-M-Flint seniors Casey Lang, Jason Smith, Fred Vandervennet and Ethan Roelle demonstrate a baseball launcher they designed and built. The engineering students created the machine to send a variety of flies and grounders to the outfield. The launcher has a range of 400 feet and is completely computer controlled. It can send a ball anywhere…
May 5, 2003
Two U-M faculty members were among those elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS) April 29. Fisk Lennard Fisk, professor and chair of the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences in the College of Engineering, and Martha Ludwig, professor of biological chemistry and a research scientist in the Biophysics Research Division, are…
May 5, 2003
Gov. Jennifer Granholm and President Mary Sue Coleman chat during Spring Commencement as they each prepare to make history: Granholm delivering her first commencement address as the first woman governor of Michigan, and Coleman giving her first U-M graduation remarks as the first woman to serve as president of University. Granholm addressed current events, including…
May 5, 2003
Fifty-one employees of the Division of Surveys and Technologies (DST), part of the Survey Research Center (SRC) at the Institute for Social Research (ISR), were notified April 30 that their jobs would end, SRC Director Robert Groves said. Of those, 43 were regular staff members who were placed on reduction-in-force status, with at least three…
May 5, 2003
Non-tenure track instructional staff at the Ann Arbor, Flint and Dearborn campuses voted last week to make the Lecturers Employees Organization (LEO) their sole bargaining representative with the University. The votes were counted April 29 and the election results are expected to be certified by the Michigan Employment Relations Commission. The union will represent about…
May 5, 2003
A University policy currently under review prohibits romantic or sexual relationships between a faculty member and a student under his or her supervision, but acknowledges that such relationships do occur. The proposed addition to the Standard Practice Guide (SPG) requires a faculty member to disclose such a relationship so that a plan for managing the…
April 21, 2003
Schematic design approved Schematic design for the new Computer Science and Engineering Building. (Diamond and Schmitt Architects) A schematic design by Diamond and Schmitt Architects for the new Computer Science and Engineering Building was approved by the regents. In October, the regents had approved the building project to provide a state-of-the-art instructional and academic facility…
April 21, 2003
DPS seeks suspect in larceny The Department of Public Safety (DPS) is seeking a suspect in an attempted larceny March 10 at the Smith Law Library Legal Research Building. The suspect is described as a white man, 20-25 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 215 pounds. He has blonde hair and a…
April 21, 2003
Norman Everett Kemp Norman Everett Kemp, a former faculty member in the Department of Zoology, died Jan. 8. He was 86. Mr. Kemp was born June 20, 1916, in Otisfield, Maine, to John and Marian Foster Kemp. He graduated from Deering High School in Portland, Maine, in 1933 and from Bates College in 1937. He…
April 21, 2003
Appointments Haan Ulaby Awards Donna Erickson, associate professor of natural resources, has received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research at the University of British Columbia during the 2003-04 academic year. She will collaborate with colleagues on research that analyzes greenway planning comparatively between the United States and Canada. The Record welcomes submissions for Accolades, including…
