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April 8, 1998
The University Record, April 8, 1998 By John Klausmeyer Exhibit Museum New exhibits at the Exhibit Museum will help explain the effect humans have on natural habitat and animals that live in the state’s wildlands. Photo courtesy Exhibit Museum What have humans done to Michigan? What happens when human needs and activities collide with the…
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April 8, 1998
The University Record, April 8, 1998 From the Office of University Relations Goldenberg Edie N. Goldenberg announced Monday (April 6) that she will be stepping down from her position as LS&A dean, effective Aug. 31, after serving for nine years, the longest term of any LS&A dean since World War II. She is the 15th…
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April 8, 1998
The University Record, April 8, 1998 By Travis Paddock News and Information Services Noting that his was to be the keynote lecture in a conference about the future of media and technology, Brian Lamb admitted “I keep asking myself, ‘What is the future of technology?’ And I don’t have the answer to that . .…
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April 8, 1998
The University Record, April 8, 1998 By James Matthew Wilson News and Information Services The Clements Library is well known for its archive of American historical manuscripts. It holds more than one-half million letters and documents that have survived, some for centuries, some for decades, by luck or by pluck. Until now, however, these collections…
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April 8, 1998
The University Record, April 8, 1998 By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Service The tendency to “catastrophize” about bad events, projecting them across many realms of life, foreshadows an untimely death decades later. That is one of the findings of a U-M analysis exploring the link between mortality and the way a person habitually explains…
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April 1, 1998
The University Record, April 1, 1998 By Bruce Spiher Information Technology Division By now, almost everyone on campus should have heard something about the Year 2000 Millennium Bug, also called the Y2K. Basically, the bug is caused by the way data about years is stored. Some software assumes that the first two digits of a…
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April 1, 1998
The University Record, April 1, 1998 From the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Twenty-one women faculty members have received Career Development Fund awards in the fifth round of competition for the program. The fund, part of the Michigan Agenda for Women, provides discretionary accounts of $5,000. The program is designed…
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April 1, 1998
The University Record, April 1, 1998 By Rebecca A. Doyle Writers William Kittredge and Annick Smith look at photos of the move Burnham house made while others hear how it will be used. Photo by Rebecca A. Doyle The Forgotten Language Tour isn’t one led in Latin or Greek, or even an obscure Midwestern dialect.…
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April 1, 1998
By Jane R. Elgass Eleven U-M students will travel to southern Africa this summer and two scholars from South Africa will come to the U-M, inaugurating the Moody Exchange Scholars program of the South Africa Initiative. The exchange program honors Charles D. Moody and his wife, Christella. Moody joined the U-M as director of the…
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April 1, 1998
The University Record, April 1, 1998 Harrison (standing at left) talks with Regent Martin Taylor while Regent Dan Horning looks on. A large part of Harrison’s job as secretary of the University is interacting with the Regents. Photo Services file photo by Bob Kalmbach Editor’s Note: The following article is the first in a series…
