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September 18, 2000
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services Throughout this academic year, the University’s Advanced Study Center, part of the International Institute, will explore new ways of approaching the past. The year-long program, “Archives, Documentation, and the Institutions of Social Memory,” is chaired by Francis Blouin, director of the Bentley Historical Library, and William Rosenberg, the…
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September 18, 2000
By Sally Pobojewski Health System Public Relations U-M scientist Denise Kirschner has developed a new mathematical model that shows how HIV—the virus that causes AIDS—slowly destroys its victim’s immune system by accelerating a normal process called homing, which diverts white blood cells from the bloodstream to the lymph system. Increased understanding of the complex relationship…
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September 18, 2000
From the College of Engineering You may never have heard of wireless integrated microsystems (WIMS), but researchers at the University are convinced that these miniature, inexpensive microsystems—about the size of a small button—have the power to dramatically change the way we live in the years ahead. The National Science Foundation (NSF) agrees, and announced that…
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September 18, 2000
By Jennifer Sroka U-M-Dearborn Amin The Dearborn campus has received a $222,396 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop and organize a sourcebook for the study of modern Middle Eastern history at the college and university level. The grant will last for two years and fund project activities at U-M-Dearborn, the University…
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September 18, 2000
By John Woodford News and Information Services Newspaper companies have little to fear from the rise of new communications media, so long as they successfully absorb and adapt the new technologies in a “multi-media approach” to journalism, said a leading newspaper editor Sept. 7. “Unless they commit suicide” through lusting too hotly for profits at…
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September 18, 2000
School of Public Policy named for Ford Speakers at last week’s naming ceremony for the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy gathered on stage at the end of the program, which drew 2,500 people to Hill Auditorium. Above (from left) are Gov. John Engler, Henry Kissinger, Omorotomi Lewis, and former President Gerald R. Ford.…
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September 11, 2000
By Jane R. Elgass President Lee C. Bollinger (left) and Havel. Photo by Bill Wood, U-M Photo Services The symposium following presentation of an honorary degree to Czech President Václav Havel last week focused on “Globalization’s Intellectual Challenge.” Panel members were Havel; President Lee C. Bollinger; Glenda Dickserson, professor of theater and drama; Jan Svejnar,…
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September 11, 2000
Editor’s Note: The text of Václav Havel’s address is on the Web at www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/Releases/2000/Sep00/havlrmk.html. By Jane R. Elgass Havel A powerful reading of excerpts of letters from Czech President Václav Havel to his wife while he was imprisoned in the 1980s provided the audience at last week’s honorary degree ceremony and symposium with a glimpse…
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September 11, 2000
D’Arms Sponsored by the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the President’s Information Revolution Commission and the Institute for the Humanities, “The Electronic Humanist” series begins Sept. 19 and includes six free, public lectures. “Producing Scholarship in the Electronic Age: The Journal and the Monograph,” John D’Arms, American Council of Learned Societies, noon Sept.…
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September 11, 2000
By Theresa Maddix Graduate Student Orientation featured a resource fair in the Michigan League Ballroom. Students milling through received information, candy and other freebies from more than 45 booths. Participants ranged from the Ann Arbor Convention and Visitor’s Bureau to U-Move Fitness. Photo by Paul Jaronski, U-M Photo Services In a day designed to welcome…
