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January 22, 2001
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2001: Commitment and Renewal By Theresa Maddix Manning Marable, professor of history and political science and the founding director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, opened Martin Luther King Jr. Day events on Jan. 11 with a sense of longing for “Martin” and asking…
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January 22, 2001
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2001: Commitment and Renewal Writer Carmen Tafolla portrays three characters of her own creation during ‘With Our Very Own Names: A Dramatic Presentation by Carmen Tafolla.’ The Martin Luther King Jr. Day program, sponsored by University Library, the School of Information and the Office of the Chief Information Officer, offered…
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January 22, 2001
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2001: Commitment and Renewal By Diane SwanbrowNews and Information Services An overflow crowd of more than 100 people attended “Census 2000 and Beyond: Collecting and Interpreting Race and Ethnicity Data,” a panel discussion in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. co-sponsored by the Institute for Social Research (ISR) and the…
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January 22, 2001
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2001: Commitment and Renewal By Mary Jo FrankOffice of the Vice President for Communications Dyson Martin Luther King Jr. told the truth, no matter what the consequences. “This man was willing to say to America, ‘I love you, but you do wrong,’” asserts author and African American intellectual Michael Eric…
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January 22, 2001
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2001: Commitment and Renewal More than 200 students participated in this year’s ‘Acting on the Dream: The Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.’ Sponsored by Students Promoting Awareness, Reflection and Knowledge (SPARK), a division of Project SERVE, the program took students to 24 sites within Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti…
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January 22, 2001
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2001: Commitment and Renewal By Theresa Maddix Williams “I know one thing we did right Was the day we started to fight. Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on, hold on.” —gospel song Juan Williams, author of Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil War Years 1954–1965, cites this gospel…
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January 22, 2001
Sergei Raygorodsky Sergei Raygorodsky, a research engineer at the College of Engineering’s Space Physics Research Laboratory, and his wife, Liana, died Jan. 11 at their Ann Arbor home. Raygorodsky, 34, had worked as a space instrument parts engineer at the space physics lab since 1992, where he helped develop equipment for space exploration. “Our laboratory…
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January 22, 2001
By Diane Brown Facilities and Operations Crime alert update Three unknown suspects remain at large following the Dec. 9 armed robbery on North Campus of a Domino’s Pizza delivery driver. Domino’s Pizza continues to offer up to $1,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of these individuals. Call the U-M Tip-line with…
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January 22, 2001
From left to right, violinists Heather Stringham, research investigator, Biostatistics, School of Public Health; Fran Wakefield, nurse anesthetist, Anesthesiology, University Hospital; Lisa Chu, fourth-year medical student; and Eric Snyder, biology student, LS&A, practice for the Life Sciences Orchestra (LSO) concert. The LSO, composed of faculty, staff and students involved in medicine and life sciences, will…
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January 22, 2001
By Kara Gavin Health System Public Relations There won’t be any dissections, exams or “all-nighters” on the hospital floors, but the Medical School hopes that students enrolling in its Mini-Medical School won’t mind. The six-week course, designed for curious members of the public who want a better understanding of the human body and some of…
