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November 26, 1997
The University Record, November 26, 1997 Top photo shows a magnified rabbit eye as the laser procedure is being performed in the cornea. The circular pattern of speckles in the center is inside the cornea itself–approximately one-eighth inch below the surface. These speckles are actually tiny gas bubbles created as the ultrafast laser vaporizes tissue.…
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November 26, 1997
The University Record, November 26, 1997 Editor’s Note: This article is excerpted from one by Janet Eaton of the Information Technology Division in the November ITDigest. The full text is available on the Web at http://www.itd.umich.edu/ITDigest/1197/feat01.html Starting in January, students, faculty and regular staff on the Ann Arbor campus will be provided with a basic…
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November 26, 1997
The University Record, November 26, 1997 Smalley By Wono LeeNews and Information Services The University will award honorary degrees to Gwendolyn Calvert Baker, educator and social activist; Ken Burns, film-maker and historian; and Richard E. Smalley, chemist and Nobel Prize winner, at winter commencement Dec. 14. The recommendations for honorary degrees were approved by the…
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November 26, 1997
The University Record, November 26, 1997 This crow may soon have its behavior modified, encouraging it to seek a roosting site away from Central Campus. Photo by Bob Kalmbach By Joanne NesbitNews and Information Services They’re back. Those cawing Corvidae have returned to Central Campus, where from dusk to dawn they stake claim to lofty…
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November 26, 1997
The University Record, November 26, 1997 The Frieze Building, completed in 1907, is one of the academic facilities scheduled for renovations with capital outlay funding from the state. Photo by Bob Kalmbach By Rebecca A. Doyle The Cenotaph, equally well-known as the Professors’ Monument, was dedicated last Friday as historical marker number three. The sculpture,…
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November 26, 1997
The University Record, November 26, 1997 The Frieze Building, completed in 1907, is one of the academic facilities scheduled for renovations with capital outlay funding from the state. Photo by Bob Kalmbach By Kerry Colligan The University will receive $79 million from the state of Michigan for capital outlay projects on the Ann Arbor campus.…
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November 26, 1997
The University Record, November 26, 1997 Provost Nancy Cantor also briefed the Regents on the changes in approach to budgeting at their meeting last week. Photo by Bob Kalmbach Editor’s Note: The Nov. 19 issue of the Record incorrectly indicated thatthe text of Provost Nancy Cantor’s presentation to Senate Assembly on VCM would appear in…
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November 26, 1997
The University Record, November 26, 1997 By Jane R. Elgass The business portion of the November Senate Assembly meeting last week was brief, with most of the time devoted to an address by Provost Nancy Cantor on her new approach to budgeting, reported on elsewhere in this issue. Members were advised that the recommendation for…
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November 26, 1997
The University Record, November 26, 1997 By Jane R. Elgass The University will ask the state for a 4 percent increase ($12.6 million) in its annual appropriation and an additional $4.5 million to fund two new initiatives. The Regents approved the request at their meeting last week. The 4 percent increase is a continuation of…
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November 26, 1997
The University Record, November 26, 1997 Alok Agrawal (left) and William Youmans share their views on diversity at the U-M. Photo by Bob Kalmbach By Rebecca A. Doyle “Many people who look like me are sitting back in Detroit because they can’t believe they could ever succeed or be accepted at the University of Michigan,”…
