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October 9, 2000
By Dan Krauth News and Information Services George R. Carignan, managing director of the Institute for Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology in the College of Engineering (CoE), will serve as interim director for the Michigan Sea Grant College Program. Michigan Sea Grant is one of 29 university-based programs in a national network that promotes greater…
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October 9, 2000
By Wanda Monroe Office of the Chief Information Officer Gloria Thiele (left) is the team leader for the Business Continuity Planning project. The University is applying lessons learned from Y2K preparation to offset potential problems–ice storms, major power outages and system failures, for example, that might hamper its ability to conduct business as usual. Photo…
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October 9, 2000
By Rebecca A. Doyle Irasema T. Garza (right) presented Provost Nancy Cantor with the Work-Life-Family Award from the Women’s Bureau for her part in enacting family-friendly policies at the U-M. Cantor, she said, ‘is a huge champion of family-friendly policies at the University of Michigan.’ In addition, her leadership has been instrumental in allocating resources…
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October 9, 2000
By Amy Reyes News and Information Services Yes, flu vaccine deliveries are late this year. And yes, in most years the vaccine isn’t cost effective for companies to make available to workers, but the vaccine still has positive health effects and should be administered when available, according to a U-M professor of public health in…
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October 9, 2000
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services Collages on handmade paper emphasize the relationship between the hand-drawn and printed images themselves and the material quality of the paper from which they emerge in Patricia Olynyk’s works. An assistant professor of art at the School of Art and Design, Olynyk has mounted “Sticks, Pods, Bones: New…
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October 9, 2000
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services Osman A. Butt, an employee at Mail Boxes Etc., helped make room for styrofoam peanuts recycled by students who moved to Ann Arbor this fall with computers and other delicate belongings packed solidly away in the stuff. Mail Boxes will be able to use the packing material again…
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October 9, 2000
From the American Psychological Society If the 1990s were the “decade of the brain,” then the behavioral and social sciences appear to have staked their claim to the first decade of the new century. The “Decade of Behavior” initiative, in the planning stages for the past two years, seeks to highlight the contributions of the…
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October 9, 2000
By Theresa Maddix LS&A Dean Shirley Neuman focused on “manifestations of vitality” and forward-looking obligations for LS&A in a detail-filled “State of the College” address Oct. 2. Neuman celebrated the increase in external research funding brought in by faculty, saying, “Research awards coming into the college [in 1999–2000] increased by 41 percent, and those coming…
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October 9, 2000
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services As Congress prepares to decide next year whether to reauthorize the welfare reform law passed in 1996, U-M welfare policy expert Rebecca Blank believes that the strong economy of the past four years provides little indication of the future success of existing state-based welfare programs. “We have been…
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October 9, 2000
By Rebecca A. Doyle Lane Hall, renovated and brought into the 21st century, is now home to the Women’s Studies Program and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services Renovated and updated to suit the needs of the 21st century, a 90-year-old building has evolved from being…
