March 17, 2003
(Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services)
March 17, 2003
Daguerreotypes. Pointillage. Naumachia. Hobbledehoy. This is a sample of the spelling words the team of Ruth Kallio, associate director of the Office of Budget and Planning (OBP), and Karen Zaruba and Susannah Livingood, research associates in the OBP, and encountered to win the Junior League of Ann Arbor Corporate Spelling Bee fundraiser Feb 12. Karen…
March 17, 2003
A U-M analysis of rare public opinion data from the Arab world shows that most people support peace with Israel and favor democracy as the best form of government. Moreover, men and women who are more religious and whose attachment to Islam is strong are just as likely as less religious individuals to favor compromise…
March 17, 2003
Twenty years after the historic “A Nation at Risk” report set off a nearly continuous wave of education reforms, most of those goals were never met. A U-M education professor and former U.S. Department of Education official reveals why in a new book to be released in April to coincide with the anniversary. Maris Vinovskis,…
March 17, 2003
The proposed reduction would affect “the ability to retain our educated students in the state’s workforce.” —Cynthia Wilbanks
March 17, 2003
The author of the book “Midnight’s Children” did not set out to write a crowd pleaser, but rather wanted to create a work that focused on the India he knew growing up in Bombay. Salman Rushdie said he never begins to write with the reader in mind—something he acknowledged as “a terrible, horrible admission.” Rushdie…
March 17, 2003
Rowena G. Matthews, the 2003 Henry Russel lecturer, has been doing bold, creative biochemistry research since the early 1960s at U-M. But it’s only been in the last decade that her findings have made her famous. Matthews (Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services) “I’d like to thank the NIH (National Institutes of Health) for…
March 10, 2003
Police Beat is updated for the Record every third Monday of the month. The next report will be March 17, 2003.
March 10, 2003
Allen Perdue Britton Allen Perdue Britton, former dean of the School of Music died Feb. 17 in DeKalb, Ill. He was 88. Britton (File photo by Bob Kalmbach, U-M Photo Services) Britton began his career at U-M in 1949 after serving in the U.S. Army in World War II. He began as a lecturer in…
March 10, 2003
Appointments Botti (Photo courtesy School of Music) The Cleveland Orchestra Feb. 10 appointed School of Music assistant professor Susan Botti the third Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow. As part of a two-year relationship with the orchestra, Botti will be in residence for three weeks; participate in rehearsals, master classes and educational activities; and compose…
