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December 17, 1997
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Seven years from now when the world’s most powerful particle accelerator begins smashing protons together in an underground tunnel near Geneva, Switzerland, scientists will be able to “see” the collisions thanks to a sensitive particle detector built in p art by U-M physicists. Officials from Europe and the…
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December 17, 1997
Jane G. Likert Jane Gibson Likert died Nov. 29 at age 95 at her home in Hawaii. She and her husband, Rensis Likert, moved to Honolulu in 1969 after his retirement as director of the Institute for Social Research. Their ties to Ann Arbor and the University were many and strong, however, and continued throughout…
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December 17, 1997
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services Matt Healy (left), an industrial and operations engineering student, and Kristin Tudball, a graphic design major in the School of Art and Design, display the raw materials and finished product–notebooks that will be for sale by EnAct Jan. 5–9 in the Michigan Union. Photo by Bob Kalmbach From…
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December 17, 1997
By Mary Jo Frank University Relations Despite the increasing number of women entering the workforce, the workplace is changing women rather than women changing the workplace, according to Robert Pasick, psychologist and author of Awakening from the Deep Sleep, Men in Therapy and What Every Man Needs to Know. At the Commission for Women’s November…
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December 17, 1997
By Patricia S. Whitesell Can you help locate this bookcase? This one and others like it once held the personal library of the University’s first president, Henry P. Tappan. Photo courtesy Bentley Historical Library and Michigan Alumnus magazine Did you know that Henry P. Tappan, first president of the University, had an extensive personal library…
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December 17, 1997
By Travis Paddock News and Information Services Rose “As soon as the judges announced the recipients, I started crying . . . it was just such a relief.” On Dec. 6, LS&A senior Fiona Rose became the 24th U-M student to receive a Rhodes Scholarship. The announcement followed the infamous Rhodes regional interviews, during which…
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December 17, 1997
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services Marianetta Porter (above) uses items universally familiar to students–fast-food containers–to challenge her design students. Their containers hold everything from a corsage of fresh flowers to a half dozen bagels. Photos by Bob Kalmbach “It’s one of the things incoming students know best,” says Marianetta Porter, an associate professor…
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December 17, 1997
By Kerry Colligan An outside contractor checks air flow with a special metering device. File photo courtesy Plant Operations Last June, the University volunteered to participate in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star Buildings Program. The five-stage program to reduce overall energy use includes lighting upgrades and improvements to air handling and heating and…
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December 17, 1997
Tim Gates, a senior in mechanical engineering, explains the process used in designing the steering wheel temperature control mechanism that was his group’s project for MEAM 450, the senior design course in mechanical engineering. Joe Van Selous, a repres entative of Ford Motor Co., tests the prototype steering wheel. Gates and team members Steve Gifford,…
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December 17, 1997
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services Marcia Governale with one of the degus used in the experiments. Photo by Bob Kalmbach Working with an unusual colony of South American rodents called degus (day-goos), U-M researchers have discovered striking sex differences in how quickly the creatures reset their biological clocks in response to changes in…
