April 2, 2001
By Melinda Tapia School of Music Reynolds. Photo courtesy School of Music After 26 years, H. Robert Reynolds is retiring from the School of Music as the Thurnau Professor of Music, director of University Bands and director of the Division of Instrumental Studies. Reynolds will be honored at 8 p.m. April 6 in Hill Auditorium…
April 2, 2001
From News and Information Services The University is using the Internet in a new way to connect with prospective students. In partnership with Embark, a company that provides admissions-related online recruiting services to colleges and universities across the country, eight of the University’s schools and colleges offer interactive inquiry forms on the Web. According to…
April 2, 2001
Editor’s Note: U.S. News and World Report does not rank every discipline every year. By Britt Halvorson For the fourth consecutive time, the School of Social Work is No. 1 in its discipline in U.S. News and World Report’s 2001 ranking of graduate programs. Numerous University graduate and professional programs, including engineering, political science, psychology,…
April 2, 2001
By Britt Halvorson The March 26 Senate Assembly meeting included a presentation by Marvin Krislov, vice president and general counsel, and Elizabeth Barry, associate vice president and deputy general counsel; an update on the progress of the Prescription Drug Work Group 2002; the election of three Senate Advisory Committee for University Affairs (SACUA) members; and…
April 2, 2001
By Joel Seguine News and Information Services The Law School. Photo by Bill Wood, Photo Services The University has filed a motion with U.S. District Court Judge Bernard A. Friedman for a stay of the injunction ordering the Law School to discontinue its use of race as a factor in its admissions decisions. To ensure…
April 2, 2001
By Leslie Harding News and Information Services Cross “I will not be denied my place, nor put in my place,” says Dolores Cross, speaking at a national conference on gender inequity in higher education. The first female president of Morris Brown University was just one of many women educators participating in a March 26 conference,…
April 2, 2001
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services Provost Nancy Cantor (above) and CEW director Carol Hollenshead spoke at the ‘Bridging Gender Divides: Educational Access, Leadership and Technology’ conference held last week on campus. Photos by Bill Wood, U-M Photo Services The broad, legally enforced gender divides in opportunity and access appear to have closed. Yet…
April 2, 2001
Monique Bowles, a participant in the Health Occupations Partners in Education (HOPE) program who is interested in a career in medicine, paints the hands in her panel. The Life Sciences Initiative and Institute focus on interdisciplinary scholarship and research, as well as the social and ethical questions posed by recent science discoveries. The murals suggest…
April 2, 2001
Twenty-one Ypsilanti High School art students have created 35 panels as part of a mural that will adorn the fence surrounding the Life Sciences Institute construction site. The University invited art teacher Robin Evans to have her students design and produce the murals in time for the Life Sciences Institute kickoff celebration on April 11.…
April 2, 2001
By Colleen Newvine News and Information Services George Gessert’s ‘Natural Selection’ from the ‘Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution’ exhibition at the Museum of Art. Photo courtesy Museum of Art Some endeavors, such as medicine and clinical research, are described as combining art and science, meaning they bring facts and figures as well as the…
