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January 17, 2000
The University Record, January 17, 2000 By Jane R. Elgass Illustration by Patricia Duque Thirty-two faculty members from 14 schools and colleges and the Dearborn and Flint campuses have been selected to participate in the second Road Scholars tour May 1–5. “I am pleased with the mix of faculty selected for the May 2000 Road…
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January 17, 2000
The University Record, January 17, 2000 By Jill Siegelbaum News and Information Services It’s not just what you teach; it’s how you teach it. By studying methods of instruction in schools, three School of Education professors—Deborah Ball, David Cohen and Brian Rowan—hope to improve education, particularly in math and reading, at schools in high-poverty areas.…
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January 17, 2000
The University Record, January 17, 2000 By Joel Seguine News and Information Services Lewis Racism is a burden Americans are in the process of laying down, “but we aren’t done yet. We must continue down that road.” So said John Lewis, civil rights pioneer, U.S. Congressman from Georgia and now recipient of the Ninth University…
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January 17, 2000
The University Record, January 17, 2000 By Rebecca A. Doyle Chris Newton, house officer in surgery emergency medicine, begins emergency procedures on the human patient simulator, a computer-driven dummy that reproduces human responses to trauma and disease. Guidance for the procedures is provided by experts, visible on the monitor, who watch a three-dimensional image recorded…
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January 17, 2000
The University Record, January 17, 2000 The Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) and the University Musical Society (UMS) are celebrating the life of philosopher and composer Alexander Scriabin in a series of programs. The events examine Russian culture in Scriabin’s time and highlight 20th-century music from the region. The following are free…
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January 17, 2000
The University Record, January 17, 2000 Editor’s Note: The following report and the figures and symbols on the accompanying map represent two months of statistics and reports from the Department of Public Safety. Computer difficulties prevented publication of the November statistics that normally would have been printed in the Dec. 20 issue of the Record.…
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January 17, 2000
The University Record, January 17, 2000 By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services Chang Ch’i (active 18th c.), Ch’ing dynasty (1644–1911), Crane on a Pine Branch (detail), hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk. Image courtesy Museum of Art Five years in the planning and nearly 900 years in the making, “The Orchid Pavilion…
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January 17, 2000
The University Record, January 17, 2000 Freeman Devold Miller Freeman Devold Miller, professor emeritus of astronomy, died Jan. 10 at age 91. Miller retired as a captain from the U.S. Navy after 25 years, including service during World War II. Miller joined the U-M in 1946 as an associate professor and was promoted to professor…
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January 17, 2000
The University Record, January 17, 2000 By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services An illustrated sheet music cover from the 1850s, one of the 100,000 pieces contained in the Thomas A. Edison Collection of American Sheet Music at the Special Collections Library. Courtesy Special Collections Library “In the 19th century, as now, popular culture picked…
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January 17, 2000
The University Record, January 17, 2000 By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services The first members of early ‘Homo sapiens’ are really quite distinct from their australopithecine predecessors and contemporaries. Perhaps the most fundamental dissimilarity, dramatic size difference, is shown here in this correctly scaled comparison of the reconstructed skeletons of two women: ER 1808,…
