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December 16, 2002
A professor in the Medical School is this year’s recipient of the Golden Apple Award. Thomas Gest, associate professor of cell and developmental biology, was the 13th professor to receive the award from Students Honoring Outstanding University Teaching (SHOUT). The SHOUT Web site says, “The Golden Apple Award honors those teachers who consistently teach each…
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December 16, 2002
The University of Michigan Press catalog of books for spring includes some by U-M authors and topics ranging from political profiles to the “branding” of universities through athletic programs. Elizabeth Goodenough’s “Secret Spaces of Childhood” is described in the catalog as opening “a wonderful window on the world of the young.” Goodenough is a lecturer…
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December 16, 2002
Much like the Hollywood association game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” corporate America is an interlocking network of company board directorships separated by just a few handshakes, say researchers at the Business School. In a study of the connectedness of nearly 7,700 board directors at Fortune 1,000 companies, the researchers found that each director, on…
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December 16, 2002
University Record Intern Though the weather outside is frightful, Tina Smith, an administrative assistant in the psychology department, helps keep the local homeless population warm with her organization, Caring Quilts. It began 10 years ago with a pattern for an “ugly quilt” from a craft magazine. Today, Smith and several others spend their Saturday mornings…
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December 16, 2002
Parking and Transportation Services offices at 508 Thompson St., 1213 Kipke Dr. and 3231 Baxter Road will be closed at the end of business Dec. 24-Jan. 1. Parking enforcement for color-coded permits and meter fees will be suspended 5 p.m. Dec. 20-6 a.m. Jan. 2. Commuter Bus: Regular schedule through Dec. 20, resuming Jan. 2.…
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December 16, 2002
Rajmohan Gandhi, a biographer and grandson of the late Mahatma Gandhi, will speak Jan. 20 at U-M as part of the campus celebration honoring the late civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Rajmohan Ghandi Rajmohan Gandhi’s grandfather was a renowned leader and thinker whose non-violent principles were instrumental in gaining India’s independence from Britain…
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December 16, 2002
Mayer (Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services) Fred Mayer starts the tour at the president’s house, as he typically does, and tells the story of how the University came to Ann Arbor with this residence as one of the original buildings. He walks toward the Diag and talks about buildings, sculptures and the original…
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December 16, 2002
With the aftermath of Sept. 11 and conflict in the Middle East, one might suspect that U.S. students would choose to stay at their universities instead of spending time abroad. But at many universities, including U-M, this is not the case. “Study abroad has gone up since Sept. 11,” says Carol Dickerman, a program director…
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December 16, 2002
The business cycle is changing for the 2,500 University staff members who use the corporate purchasing card (P-Card) program each month. The change means that purchases made with a MasterCard P-Card will be approved in the M-Pathways Financial System sooner, which allows transactions to appear in financial reports earlier than was possible in the old…
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December 16, 2002
After more than a year of information-gathering and analysis, the discover phase of the U-M Job Classification System Project is complete. The new approach is designed to be more intuitive and to replace the current system, which is 30 years old. The new career-grouping approach is intended to help the University recruit and retain the…
