February 10, 2003
General Motors Corp. and U-M announced Feb. 4 that GM will give the University more than $10 million in grants for joint research and development programs and educational enhancement. GM will fund two Collaborative Research Laboratories (CRL) at the University, providing $9 million over the next five years. These labs will focus on Advanced Vehicle…
February 10, 2003
A group of non-tenured instructional staff members on all three campuses of the University has formed the Lecturers’ Employees Organization (LEO). On Dec. 20 LEO petitioned the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) for recognition as the exclusive bargaining agent for most non-tenured instructional staff. Representatives of the University and LEO met for discussion with the…
February 10, 2003
“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth.”Andrew Solomon, “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression” More college students than ever before are seeking treatment for depression, but organizers of a…
February 10, 2003
By the time Prof. Gerard Faeth heard on the radio that NASA had lost contact with the space shuttle Columbia Feb. 1, the astronauts already had sent back most of the results from the experiment he had on board. Prof. Gerard Faeth stands by a replica of a space shuttle. He worked with the Columbia…
February 3, 2003
Editor’s note: The following actions were taken by members of the regents at their January meeting. Radiation Oncology research to move Research faculty and staff from the Department of Radiation Oncology will be relocated this spring to the Argus I Building at 519 W. William. Approximately 9,000 square feet of leased space at Argus I…
February 3, 2003
Police Beat is updated for the Record every third Monday of the month. The next report will be February 10, 2003.
February 3, 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…
February 3, 2003
Appointments Bierbaum (Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services) Rosina Bierbaum, dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, has been named to a four-year term on the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her term begins Feb. 19. Jenifer Martin has been appointed administrator of the U-M…
February 3, 2003
Ryan Healy, a student in the Residential College, and Be-long Cho, a visiting scholar at the Geriatric Center, participate in the “Change!” Theater and Movement Workshop, which was part of the symposium honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Below, A group at the workshop participates in another Change! exercise as part of the workshop. The event…
February 3, 2003
Residents of Ann Arbor and surrounding communities are invited to receive free oral health care services at the School of Dentistry during Dental Health Day on Saturday, Feb. 8. Regardless of income, individuals as young as five can participate in the program from 9 a.m.-noon. An appointment is not necessary. However, patients will be seen…
