November 18, 2002
Higher education is extremely important to Michigan’s progress economically, socially and culturally, says a report from a commission charged with reviewing the state’s public universities. The final report of the University Investment Commission (UIC) says the state, in recognition of this contribution, should increase funding for the 15 public universities. In exchange, UIC says universities…
November 18, 2002
As the Nov. 23 football game with Ohio State University (OSU) approaches, curators from U-M libraries have joined forces with their counterparts at OSU to develop online exhibits highlighting both the athletic rivalry and the academic collaboration between the two institutions. Focusing on the athletic rivalry, Greg Kinney and Brian Williams at the Bentley Historical…
November 18, 2002
You can take the cowboy out of the West, but you can’t take the spirit of the West out of the cowboy. At least this is what Douglas Lewis, director of student legal services (SLS), says. An accomplished attorney and Civil War buff, Lewis has made his presence known not only in the courtroom, but…
November 18, 2002
News Service More minorities than ever before are joining the U.S. workforce, and American businesses can do more to accommodate themespecially African Americans, say researchers at the Business School and Florida A&M University. Compared with their white counterparts, African American workers have lower levels of job satisfaction and commitment to their employers, the researchers say.…
November 18, 2002
News Service Despite a slow economic recovery and its impact on the state, U-M enrollment is at record levels, research awards have reached $741 million and the economic return on investment in education is as high as it has ever been, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Paul N. Courant said in a…
November 18, 2002
Mercedes Pascual, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology whose research has revealed links between El Nino climate fluctuations and cholera outbreaks, is one of “The 50 Most Important Women in Science” featured in the November issue of Discover magazine. Pascual (Photo by David Bay) Discover recognized Pascual for her research on complex ecological…
November 18, 2002
During an epoch of intense labor organizing in the late 1930s, two giants of the Harlem Renaissance, jazz pianist and composer James P. Johnson and poet/novelist Langston Hughes, collaborated on the creation of a one-act opera, “De Organizer.” A blues opera about organizing sharecroppers, “De Organizer” was performed once at Carnegie Hall in New York…
November 18, 2002
News Service As a lifelong Detroit resident, Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick probably heard countless negative comments about crime, abandoned buildings and problems in the Motor City. Kilpatrick (Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) But if he needed a confirmation that it is important to improve the city’s image, he received it earlier this yearin…
November 18, 2002
Plaque Text This plaque commemorates the grant of lands from the Ojibwe (Chippewa), Odawa (Ottawa), and Bodewadimi (Potawatomi), through the Treaty of Fort Meigs, which states that “believing they may wish some of their children hereafter educated , [they] do grant to the rector of the the Catholic church of St. Anne of Detroit ……
