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January 8, 2001
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Neidhardt The Waksman Foundation for Microbiology, formerly called the Foundation for Microbiology, has a new home on the U-M campus. The 50-year-old foundation moved its offices on Jan. 1. Frederick C. Neidhardt, the F.G. Novy Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Microbiology and Immunology, is the foundation’s new president.…
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January 8, 2001
By Theresa Maddix Imagine: A faculty member does not receive tenure and wonders whether discrimination was involved. She isn’t ready to file a formal grievance, but after reviewing the department’s history of appointments, she wants to make sure that if this is a case of blatant sex discrimination, it is the last in the department.…
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January 8, 2001
By Wanda Monroe University Library Photo by Bill Wood, U-M Photo Services For the past 20 years, businesses that need copies of articles and documents quickly have relied on the services provided by MITS—the Michigan Information Transfer Source. Articles on such topics as on “how humidity affects injection molding” and requests for “lists of the…
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January 8, 2001
By Jane R. Elgass Click here for a listing of MLK Symposium events. Actor, producer, director and community activist Edward James Olmos will deliver the keynote address for the University’s commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. More than 75 events, including workshops, lectures and performances, are scheduled under the theme “Commitment and Renewal.” This is…
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January 8, 2001
By Britt Halvorson Clara Keane (left) and Olga Kim playing under a makeshift tent at the U-M Children’s Center for Working Families. Photos by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services Child care is more affordable for almost one-quarter of U-M families with children at the University’s child care centers, thanks to a $100,000 pilot grant from…
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January 8, 2001
‘Europe 1950,’ an exhibition of photographs by Cecil Eby, professor emeritus of English language and literature, will be on display through Feb. 2 at the Pierpont Commons Gallery Wall. The post-World War II photographs capture Eby’s vision of the ‘real’ Europe, before mass tourism. After graduating from college, Eby set off for Europe aboard the…
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January 8, 2001
Though the snow made transportation difficult, it also created some beautiful scenery and opportunities for snow art. Photos by Paul Jaronski, U-M Photo Services
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January 8, 2001
At top, crews remove accumulated snow near the Michigan Union, the LS&A Building and the Fleming Administration Building. A University truck sprays the sidewalk outside the Natural Sciences Building with a de-icing solution.
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January 8, 2001
Though some have enjoyed the scenic beauty of last month’s heavy snowfall as it blanketed campus, University crews have been working overtime to clear paths, parking lots and roads, and remove snow piles. Snow removal on campus is a collaborative effort, with many departments providing assistance. Crews from Building Services, Maintenance Services, Moving and Trucking,…
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January 8, 2001
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services Mueller (left) and Kossoudji. Photo by Bill Wood, Photo Services Fifty years ago, when U-M professor emerita Eva Mueller received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, she asked the chairman of the department for help finding a job. “He said he couldn’t help me, since economics wasn’t…
