January 22, 2001
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2001: Commitment and Renewal By Britt Halvorson Edward James Olmos ditched the podium and opted for a wireless microphone when he delivered the Martin Luther King Jr. keynote lecture so he could more easily engage the audience in his presentation. Photo by Paul Jaronski, U-M Photo Services “Today is a…
January 22, 2001
By Kara Gavin Health System Public Relations Lisa Zastrow (left) watches as her 1 1/2-year-old daughter Riley undergoes a hearing test with Carissa Ashbaugh, clinical audiologist, at the Hearing Rehabilitation Center’s Cochlear Implant Program. The test was done without Riley’s cochlear implant in place. Photos by Marcia L. Ledford, U-M Photo Services The younger deaf…
January 22, 2001
By Kara Gavin Health System Public Relations C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital has received a $447,364 grant from the Carls Foundation to help advance the understanding and care of children with pediatric mandibular deficiency via distraction osteogenesis. Under the direction of Steven R. Buchman, chief of pediatric plastic surgery and director of the Craniofacial Anomalies Program,…
January 22, 2001
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services In the second annual study of seat belt use by children age 15 and under, David W. Eby and colleagues at UMTRI found that nearly 97 percent of children age 3 and under and about 75 percent of children ages 4–15 were restrained either in child safety seats…
January 22, 2001
Editor’s Note: Michigan became the 26th state Jan. 26, 1837. By Joanne NesbitNews and Information Services Advertising for this map by Orange Risdon touted the Michigan Territory as ‘abounding in lands of the most fertile and healthy description’ and that ‘the climate is particularly adapted to our eastern constitution.’ Photo courtesy Clements Library In the…
January 22, 2001
By Julie Peterson Office of the Vice President for Communications Private funeral and religious services for Candy R. Wei were held Jan. 19 in Ann Arbor. Wei, 20, a sophomore in the School of Art and Design from Durham, N.C., died Jan. 16 in her room at Mosher-Jordan Residence Hall. Preliminary findings from the medical…
January 22, 2001
By Linda Hancock Green Michigan Administrative Information Services The University will accomplish a third major administrative information system implementation in July when the M-Pathways Project implements a new human resource, payroll, benefit administration, and time and labor management system. This system, the Human Resource Management System (HRMS), “puts in place a new, integrated administrative data…
January 22, 2001
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services Olabayo Olaniyi, artist in residence at the School of Art and Design, performed with his students at the beginning of December and will offer the free performance ‘ONA MI (My Road)’ Jan. 25. Olaniyi’s artistic expertise extends to drumming, dancing, theater and plastic arts. Photo by Ed West,…
January 22, 2001
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services Anthropologist Milford Wolpoff and his colleagues compared a number of different features of skulls from Australia (top center) and skulls from Eastern Europe (bottom center) to other fossil skulls that could be ancestors. They found that the European and Australian skulls shared characteristics distinctive to the more ancient…
January 22, 2001
By Julie Peterson News and Information Services The University of Michigan Athletic Department has signed an agreement with Nike that will equip all 25 varsity men’s and women’s sports for the next seven years, Athletic Director Bill Martin announced Jan. 16. The agreement also provides cash payments of $1.2 million per year to the U-M…
