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June 19, 2000
By Mary Jo Frank Office of Communications Havel The University plans to award the honorary doctor of laws degree to Czech Republic President Václav Havel Sept. 5. The playwright and statesman also will participate in a program titled “Globalization’s Intellectual Challenge” following the ceremony. The Regents approved the honorary degree at their June 16 meeting.…
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June 19, 2000
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services Miller The University will host the Arthur Miller International Symposium, “Arthur Miller’s America: Theater and Culture in a Century of Change,” Oct. 26–29, in honor of Miller’s 85th birthday. The noted playwright and alumnus (’38) will deliver the keynote address Oct. 26. Kicking off a year of theater…
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June 19, 2000
By Jane R. Elgass Wolff Music educator Karen Wolff will be recommended to the Regents as the next dean of the School of Music. The recommendation, announced by Provost Nancy Cantor and President Lee C. Bollinger on June 9, will be acted on by the Board at its July 13–14 meeting, with Wolff’s appointment effective…
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June 19, 2000
From the Program in Bioinformatics The Program in Bioinformatics has selected five collaborative research proposals in bioinformatics to fund through a pilot grant. For the funding program, bioinformatics was viewed as a field that elucidates and quantifies the interactions that link the numerous hierarchical levels of organization in an organism. Levels range from DNA sequence…
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June 19, 2000
By Theresa Maddix “The new economy is not new. Seek models, not trends. Seek theories, not buzzwords; analysis, not analogies,” speaker Hal Varian told the joint meeting of the IT Zone and the Ann Arbor Software Council June 8. Former U-M professor of economics and Business Week best-selling author, Varian presented “Technology Changes, Economic Rules…
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June 19, 2000
By Wono Lee News and Information Services Twenty-three faculty members were given the emeritus title by the Regents at their June meeting. Those retiring are Loren S. Barritt, professor of education; Lynne K. Bartholomew, associate professor of music (piano); John H. D’Arms, the Gerald F. Else Professor of Humanities, professor of classical studies, professor of…
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June 19, 2000
By Sally Pobojewski Health System Public Relations Geneticist Francis Collins offered four pieces of advice to Medical School graduates earlier this month. Photo by Paul Jaronski, U-M Photo Services The Medical School sent a remarkable group of 163 new physicians out into the world on June 9. In many ways, it was a typical commencement…
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June 19, 2000
By Sally Pobojewski Health System Public Relations U-M scientists have identified a sequence of amino acids found in fibronectin, a common blood protein, that has a remarkable ability to accelerate healing of hard-to-treat skin wounds in obese, diabetic mice. One drop of the substance completely healed skin puncture wounds in obese diabetic mice in just…
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June 19, 2000
By Sally Pobojewski Health System Public Relations These images are representative electron micrographs of kidney cells from U-M experimental and control mice. The image on the left shows cells from untreated mice with Fabry disease. The large dark objects are vesicles filled with glycolipids; the circular object on the right is the cell’s nucleus. Kidney…
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June 19, 2000
By Kate Kellogg Human Resources/Affirmative Action As employer investment and retirement options multiply, most workers find that managing their personal finances takes more than a few minutes with a calculator. Many people are shifting some of that responsibility over to financial consultants. Those professionals provide money-saving advice on investments and savings and help clients set…
