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April 2, 2001
By Colleen Newvine News and Information Services Dixon The University will celebrate the launch of the Life Sciences Institute and the construction of the 230,000-square-foot, $96 million Life Sciences Institute building with a series of events April 11. An official kickoff ceremony at Rackham Auditorium will include keynote talks by Institute co-directors Jack E. Dixon…
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April 2, 2001
By Valerie Gliem Health System Public Relations Kelly Saran (left), clinical nurse, and Rajendra Mehta, clinical assistant professor of internal medicine, look over charts in the U-M Cardiovascular Center. Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services One of the most compelling questions regarding the November 2000 hospitalization of Vice President Dick Cheney was whether or…
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April 2, 2001
By Valerie Gliem Health System Public Relations A U-M study of patients with heart conditions shows that the U-M’s discharge program is having a favorable effect, especially with patients maintaining key medications. Included in the program is a discharge form that ensures that patients understand that they have had a heart attack, what that means,…
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April 2, 2001
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services Nearly 40 percent of American taxpayers wait until the last week before the April 15 deadline to file their annual income tax returns, says a University tax expert. “Tax time brings out the procrastination impulses many of us have, especially when the postponed action has to do with…
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April 2, 2001
By Dan Krauth News and Information Services The Michigan Quarterly Review’s (MQR) special winter issue, “Reimagining Place,” will whisk you away on a journey through the country with a collection of prose, poetry and visual art that explores questions of human interactions with natural environments. Included are aerial photographs revealing human alterations to landscapes, faculty…
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April 2, 2001
José Mejia, Ypsilanti High School student, works on a mural of sea animals and plants that will be displayed on a fence surrounding the Life Sciences Institute construction site. Ypsilanti students under the direction of art teacher Robin Evans are designing 35 panels with a life sciences theme. The University and Ypsilanti Public Schools have…
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March 26, 2001
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services The University’s Gamelan Ensemble (shown here in rehearsal) will perform 3–5 p.m., 6:30–7:30 p.m. and 9–10:30 p.m. March 30 in the Social Work Building Lobby. Photo courtesy School of Music A curriculum that examines the role of the performing arts and artists within a variety of cultural contexts…
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March 26, 2001
From the Michigan Society of Fellows The Michigan Society of Fellows has selected four new fellows to serve three-year appointments as postdoctoral scholars and assistant professors, beginning this fall. The fellows were chosen for the importance and quality of their scholarship and for their interest in interdisciplinary academic work. During their tenure at the University,…
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March 26, 2001
From the Wellness in the Workplace Program They’re springtime rituals with names that speak a language of their own: walk-a-thons, bike-to-work week, walk-at-lunch week. Such week- and month-long programs reflect employers’ commitment to work-place wellness programs—a commitment that has increasingly become a year-round part of the work place for thousands of employers, says D.W. Edington,…
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March 26, 2001
By Deborah Greene News and Information Services Juan Williams on campus in January to deliver the School of Business Administration’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day address. Photo by Paul Jaronski, U-M Photo Services A national town hall meeting will convene March 29 in Rackham Auditorium, and the public is invited. Juan Williams, host of National…
