February 5, 2001
William Warner Coon William Warner Coon, professor emeritus of surgery, died Oct. 5, 2000, of leukemia at University Hospital. He was 75. Coon spent his childhood in Saginaw and completed his undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins University. Following graduation from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1949, he joined the U-M Department of Surgery…
February 5, 2001
Student Tyce De Boer (left) and Jeff Balcerski, technologist, Information Technology Division, rehearse for a Jan. 28 open house/performance of the Ring of Steel, a student/community theatrical combat and stunt troupe. The Ring of Steel has been active on campus since 1989, with an average of 75 members per term. The group trains actors in…
February 5, 2001
This photograph captures a scene from a 1948 U-M production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. A unique feature of the performance was the women in ‘walking scenery’ portraying trees. The photograph is one of many items on display through April in the Bentley Historical Library’s exhibition ‘Shakespeare on Campus.’ Part of the celebration ‘The…
February 5, 2001
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services James Chaffers asks the audience where they might place the man (MLK), his message and his movement on the geometric diagram shown above. Photos by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services James Chaffers, professor of architecture, and John Lockard, adjunct lecturer in Afroamerican and African studies, were among the…
February 5, 2001
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services Vázquez With a $3 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, the new U-M Center for Development and Mental Health officially opened Jan. 31 at the Center for Human Growth and Development (CHGD). “The new center will facilitate longitudinal research on the factors that contribute to…
February 5, 2001
By Lynne Dumas Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies For more than a decade, scholars, students, librarians and publishers have watched and participated in the transformation of academic publishing, as more scholarly articles and books have moved to an electronic format. Some assert that the increase is due to rising costs in journal production…
February 5, 2001
Women’s tennis players Joanne Musgrove (clockwise, from top left), Kavitha Tipirneni and Kim Plaushines practice volleys and serves. The team faces the University of Kentucky at 4 p.m. Feb. 9 in Lexington. The next home match will be against the University of Illinois at 11 a.m. Feb. 24 at the Varsity Tennis Center. The 27-year-old…
January 29, 2001
By Kara Gavin Health System Public Relations It’s coming our way: the yearly influenza outbreak that creeps across the country in the winter months. Michigan’s first cases have already been spotted. Jeffrey Desmond, lecturer in emergency medicine, and Marie Lozon, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases and of emergency medicine, offer advice on…
January 29, 2001
By Kara Gavin Health System Public Relations Individuals who have lost both their vision and their hearing face a daunting challenge in our world of communication based on sight and sound. But a new Health System study suggests that contrary to expectations, those who are both deaf and blind can regain significant ability to recognize…
January 29, 2001
Click here for highlights of the Senate Assembly meeting. By Theresa Maddix Kasdin “The University’s financial circumstances can only be described as excellent,” reported Robert Kasdin, University chief financial officer, at the Jan. 22 Senate Assembly meeting. Kasdin cited the fall upgrade of the University’s bonds to Aaa by Moody’s Investors Service and the dramatic…
