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February 3, 2003
Lawrence Sklar, the Carl G. Hempel and William K. Frankena Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, will deliver the lecture titled “Dappled Theories in a Uniform World” at 4 p.m. Feb. 12 in the Michigan League Hussey Room. A reception will follow his talk. Sklar. (File photo by Bob Kalmbach, U-M Photo Services) Kensall D. Wise,…
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February 3, 2003
Be among those in the know by attending the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) study and book clubs sponsored by the Ann Arbor District Library, the University Musical Society (UMS), the Center for South Asian Studies and Shaman Drum Bookshop. Alison Fiske as Volumnia in “Coriolanus,” one of the plays the Royal Shakespeare Company will perform…
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February 3, 2003
Arthur Levitt Jr., proponent of tougher corporate accounting standards and former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, will address America’s financial future and recent business scandals in a town hall meeting 6-8 p.m. Feb. 4 at the Business School’s Hale Auditorium. Levitt, self-described champion of shareholders and author of the best-selling book “Take on…
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February 3, 2003
Photo courtesy NASA/JPL Two public lectures remain in a series about the planet Mars at the Exhibit Museum of Natural History. At 7:30 p.m. Feb. 5, the College of Engineering’s Michigan Mars Rover Team presents “Mars 102,” explaining what makes Mars exploration a challenge and what kind of research can be done there. At 7:30…
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February 3, 2003
A group of research scientists, staff members, students and their families from the Institute for Social Research (ISR) joined together Jan. 18 for a bus tour through Detroit’s scarred but still proud urban landscape. Among the group who stopped downtown at the former Campus Martius, now Cadillac Square, were President Mary Sue Coleman and her…
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February 3, 2003
Two U-M faculty members are working on an effort to bring a memorial honoring Martin Luther King Jr. to Washington, D.C., along the Tidal Basin between the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials. James Chaffers, a professor of architecture and professor in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS), was a conceptual advisor and design juror…
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February 3, 2003
Environmental justice for indigenous people and the need to respect their traditional values were twin themes in Tom Goldtooth’s talk to a crowded Kuenzel Room in the Michigan Union Jan. 29. Goldtooth, who is executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, is based in Bemidji, Minn. In his talk he focused on the need to…
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February 3, 2003
Starting with a prayer to honor their elders and a song dedicated to people suffering throughout the world, Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales quickly set the spiritual tone that pervaded their Jan. 27 lecture, “On Being Human.” “Our work is a prayer,” Rodriguez said. “It is about what it means to be human, and more…
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February 3, 2003
As a junior, Lauren Teverbaugh has a good idea what she wants to do with her life. She’s interested in child psychology or psychiatry, and she expects that after finishing her bachelor’s, she’ll pursue an advanced degree. Still, Teverbaugh looks forward to an upcoming summer research project in Ghana as an opportunity to get more…
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February 3, 2003
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has selected U-M as a national, multi-year partner in a project to improve doctoral education at American universities. The foundation’s Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate has tapped U-M’s chemistry, English, educational studies and mathematics departments to participate in the five-year study. The departments will analyze all aspects…
