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January 15, 2001
By Kara Gavin and Valerie Gliem Health System Public Relations Faith Sowers, clinical nurse, works on an infant on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the Holden Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Mott Hospital. Photo by Marcia L. Ledford, U-M Photo Services C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital has been named to Child magazine’s first list of the 10…
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January 15, 2001
Partly percussion instruments, partly pieces of art, ‘sound sculptures’ created and constructed by Michael Gould, assistant professor of music (percussion), and Michigan State University (MSU) colleague Alison Shaw are on display in ‘Sculptures Musicales’ Jan. 16–Feb. 4 in the Media Union Gallery. The sculptures were first shown at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in…
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January 15, 2001
By Patricia Majher, College of Engineering, and Nancy L. Kuharevicz Offered for the first time during the fall 2000 term, the ‘Global Product Realization’ course drew a variety of graduate students from disciplines inside and outside of engineering. Participants were divided into eight global product teams, each composed of students from the U-M, Technical University…
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January 15, 2001
Delaney (left) and Seigenthaler John Seigenthaler is a former reporter, editor, publisher and CEO of The Tennessean , founding editorial director of USA Today and now founder and director of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University. “The color line is still there,” he said, “but it has moved, and that’s good.” Looking at the…
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January 15, 2001
By Joel Seguine News and Information Services An audience member reviews The New York Times summer series on ‘How Race Is Lived in America.’ Photos by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services The opening event in the University’s 2001 celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day occurred Jan. 8 in Rackham Amphitheater, when top-flight journalists gathered…
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January 15, 2001
By Nancy Ross-Flanigan News and Information Services Above is a representation of what has often been dubbed Pangea A, a model of how the continents might have fit together when they were tightly clustered. This model, based on geological evidence, has been widely accepted and reproduced. The maps below represent two efforts to make the…
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January 15, 2001
Though under renovation, Burton Tower still serves as home to one of two University carillons. The tower is named for former U-M President Marion Leroy Burton. The Charles Baird Carillon in Burton Tower is the third heaviest in the world, containing 55 bells that were cast in 1936 and 1975 by the John Taylor &…
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January 8, 2001
Editor’s Note: Please check the Web at www.mlksymposium.org for the most up-to-date information on times and locations. This information was current as of Dec. 25, 2000. Monday, January 8 Covering Race Then and Now: The Press and Public Policy—Panel discussion with David Halberstam, Paul Delaney, Gene Roberts and John Seigenthaler, 1 p.m., Rackham Amphitheater Sponsor:…
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January 8, 2001
From Health System Public Relations The Survivors’ Art Gallery currently houses the Smithsonian’s traveling ‘Healing Garden’ exhibition of 25 quilts that highlight plants that are ingredients in chemotherapy drugs. Clockwise, from left to right, works on display include Cyclee peltata by Patti Marcus, Cartharanthus roseus by Eileen Cavanagh, Fagara macrophyte by Carolyn Lynch and Podokphlium…
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January 8, 2001
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services Although private-agency adoptions in Michigan were down slightly last year, the number of children from foreign countries permanently placed into Michigan families increased 14 percent from the year before, says U-M social work researcher Leslie Hollingsworth. Of the 2,738 children placed for adoption in 1999 by private agencies…
