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February 17, 2003
Dr. James Grier Miller Dr. James Grier Miller, the founding director of the U-M Mental Health Research Institute (MHRI), died Nov. 7 at his home in La Jolla, Calif. He was 86. In 1955, Miller, who was then chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago, accepted the invitation of Dr. Raymond…
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February 17, 2003
School of Education Associate Dean Jeffrey Mirel recently was appointed to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lectureship Series. Currently, there are approximately 150 OAH lecturers. Antonia Villarruel, associate professor of nursing, has been appointed a charter member of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) Health Sciences Advisory Council. The council will…
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February 17, 2003
Faced with the possibility of substantial budget cuts in the coming year, President Mary Sue Coleman told the Board of Regents the University is prepared to make tough choices that will allow for expenditure reductions while not compromising the quality of education at U-M. Coleman further noted the need for a cooperative spirit following Gov.…
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February 17, 2003
A canceled trip to Washington, D.C., because of a huge winter storm did not prevent President Mary Sue Coleman from previewing affirmative action briefs to be filed this week with the Supreme Court of the United States. By teleconference from Crisler Arena Feb. 17, Coleman told members of the American Council on Education that the…
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February 17, 2003
“A great deal hangs in the balance right here, right now,” President Mary Sue Coleman said as she detailed the University’s brief filed the week of February 17 with the Supreme Court. Coleman (Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) The crux of the University’s position on affirmative action, Coleman said, is the compelling interest…
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February 17, 2003
Currently on display at Pierpont Commons, an exhibit of document and photo reproductions from the Gerald R. Ford presidential papers celebrates the Black experience, 1974-77, as activist citizens, elected officials, presidential advisers and African heads of state. Former Tanzania President Julius Nyerere. (Photo courtesy Gerald Ford Library) Among the items on display in “Black History,…
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February 17, 2003
Dan Fisher, professor of geological sciences and of ecology and evolutionary biology, supervises students making a cast of a mastodon skull. Fisher and a team of students and community volunteers are molding an entire mastodon skeleton on loan from the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y. Also pictured, clockwise from left, are Mike Cherney, project…
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February 17, 2003
Sudin Bhattacharya, engineering graduate student; Bojan Peovski, an electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) senior; and Vishal Soni, EECS graduate student, sample food at the Feb. 11 cultural fair, part of the symposium honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Below, Ce Sun, an aerospace engineering graduate student, performs a martial arts demonstration. The event in the…
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February 17, 2003
Now that a million-dollar, year-long infrastructure renovation project has reached its conclusion, this desk, located within the president’s study inside the 162-year-old President’s Residence, once again will serve the president of the University. The renovation work modernized the heating and cooling and electrical systems, and included a complete renovation of the pantry and kitchen. President…
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February 17, 2003
Traditional rivals on the football field, three Michigan universities now are working together to perform the most complete functional analysis of an organism done in a single project. In just one year, scientists at Michigan State University, Wayne State University and U-M will map at least 80 percent of the intestinal bug Campylobacter jejuni with…
