April 10, 2000
By Jill Siegelbaum News and Information Services Senior engineering students Craig Williams (center) and Melinda Ball (right) demonstrate the operation of the Height Garden, a project designed for the Jewish Community Center. The center requested a raised garden design that would allow older adults to care for plants without stooping or kneeling. The garden is…
April 10, 2000
From the International Center and the U-M Washington, D.C., Office The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) published a notice in the Federal Register March 21 announcing that there are a sufficient number of H-1B petitions pending at the four service centers to reach the cap of 115,000 for fiscal year 2000. Amended petitions, petitions for…
April 10, 2000
Scott Kokones demonstrates his team’s entry, a safety device for indoor recreational rock climbing, while team members Kristalyn Mack (left) and Scott Howes (right) look on. Their project is one of about 30 from the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics 450 senior design class that were on display last week in the EECS Building atrium.…
April 3, 2000
From the Institute for the Humanities The Institute for the Humanities has awarded fellowships to seven faculty and five graduate students to support research projects they will pursue during 2000–2001. “The Executive Committee of the Institute, with the help of the outside evaluators, had to make many difficult choices among an exceptionally strong group of…
April 3, 2000
From the Office of the Vice President for Research The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), LS&A and the Vice Provost for the Arts are pleased to announce the recipients of the Michigan Humanities Award and Michigan Arts Award for academic year 2000–2001. Now in their sixth year, these award programs constitute a…
April 3, 2000
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services About 3.5 million American children between ages 5 and 12 spend some time home alone after school. But the average amount of time isn’t much—only about an hour a day, according to a U-M study presented in Chicago April 2 at the biennial meeting of the Society for…
April 3, 2000
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services A Web site documenting the early history and development of the Ann Arbor community will debut 7–8 p.m. April 10 in the multi-purpose room of the Ann Arbor District Library’s Main Library. The unveiling, reception and demonstration are free and open to the public and will help celebrate…
April 3, 2000
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Chief Ron E. Ignace (left) from the Shuswap tribe in British Columbia, and Frank Ettawageshik (right), former tribal chairman of Michigan’s Little Traverse Band of Odawa, were part of a panel discussion at the Society of Ethnobiology conference held on the U-M campus last week. Photo by Bob…
April 3, 2000
By Amy Reyes News and Information Services Some of the world’s most recognized experts on water quality issues were on campus March 17 to salute one of their own: Khalil H. Mancy, a professor of environmental sciences equally well-known within the field. Mancy, an environmental chemist known for his research on water quality issues in…
April 3, 2000
By Wanda Monroe Office of the Chief Information Officer “It’s getting to the point where for everyone to do their best teaching job, they need ready access to computer resources.” “I work at a computer an average of four hours a day—and I am not in a technology-related field!” These are just two of the…
