April 23, 2001
Royster Harper (center), vice president for student affairs, jokes with Christine Chung (left) and Kun-Woo Yi in the Pound House Children’s Center. Harper spent several hours working at Pound House on April 17. She was one of numerous community and University leaders who brought awareness to the work of child care providers during the Washtenaw…
April 23, 2001
By Nancy L. Kuharevicz Campbell. Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services Yolanda Campbell is a woman with a mission. As director of Health Promotion and Community Relations and associate director of University Health Service (UHS), Campbell aims to help members of the University community live healthier lives. “This department is the primary resource for…
April 23, 2001
By Theresa Maddix Gilbert Omenn, executive vice president for medical affairs, discussed three main topics in his Health System update April 16 at the Senate Assembly meeting. He spoke on the Life Sciences—the Institute, the Initiative and the Corridor; the status of clinical operations; and space and capacity. “The whole interested community got to see…
April 23, 2001
MED’s 71 years (1930-2001) by the numbers 5 chief editors Samuel Moore (1930–34) Thomas A. Knott (1935–45) Hans Kurath (1946–61) (A–F, 3 volumes, 3,568 pages) Sherman M. Kuhn (1961–83) (G–P, 4 volumes, 5,052 pages) Robert E. Lewis (1982–2001) (Q–Z, 6 volumes, 6,326 pages) 96 production staff since 1952 Publication by the U-M Press began in…
April 23, 2001
From News and Information Services The Middle English Dictionary (MED) project was supported almost entirely by the University in 1930–1974, except for some assistance in the 1930s from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1974, in order to hasten the completion of the editing, application was made to the Andrew…
April 23, 2001
From News and Information Services The Spelling Dictionary was the first dictionary published in this country and the first published by a woman. From the collection of the Clements Library. Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services Members of the Dictionary Society of North America will gather in Ann Arbor May 6–9 when U-M hosts…
April 23, 2001
University Musical Society (UMS) closes its season with the premiere of Ping Chong and Benjamin Bagby’s theatrical production Edda: Viking Tales of Revenge, Lust and Family at 8 p.m. April 25–26 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The legends found in the ancient Icelandic Edda , one of the earliest medieval manuscripts, form the basis for…
April 16, 2001
By Lesley Harding News and Information Services Do you find yourself asking people to repeat themselves? Does your family ask you to turn the TV down? Do people tell you that you’re talking too loud? If so, you could have noise-induced hearing loss. Helen Keller once said, “Deafness is worse than blindness.” She felt she…
April 16, 2001
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services Wendy Baker, clinical nurse at University Hospital, paints the temperate deciduous forest section of the mural. Baker also is a student working on the project for credit. Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services Look high, look low and look closely in between to find what lives and…
April 16, 2001
By Theresa Maddix Displaying a continued commitment to undergraduate and graduate education, the Office of the Provost has agreed to fund increases in LS&A’s budget resulting from tuition for GSIs enrolled in departments outside LS&A. LS&A will continue to provide the current level of tuition aid. Tuition paid by LS&A for GSIs enrolled in other…
