May 22, 2000
By Theresa Maddix Emphasizing the people priority in University information technology (IT), José-Marie Griffiths gave the opening address at the Workplace 2000 career conference. Griffiths, university chief information officer (CIO) and executive director of the Information Technology Division, told conference attendees, “The real power of technology is in the people who use it. My greatest…
May 22, 2000
Workplace 2000: Career Success in the 21st Century By Theresa Maddix Stasinski “How many of you have stress at work?” keynote speaker Walt Stasinski asked to launch his Workplace 2000 presentation. Stasinski then proceeded with a joke-peppered talk about how to have fun on the job. “It is a myth that you have to be…
May 22, 2000
By Suzanne Tainter Division of Research Development and Administration A U-M invention is a key part of a ceramic components manufacturing business newly established by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona. A process for creating fibrous monolithic ceramics, patented by a U-M engineering team, provides the raw material for ceramic components used in jet engines,…
May 22, 2000
‘I feel like we went out and met the heroes of the state,’ said Myron Campbell of the Road Scholars tour around Michigan May 1–5. In what would be called a ‘listening tour’ in other contexts, the five-day trip took 30 faculty members to 11 Michigan cities to meet with prominent local figures and discuss…
May 8, 2000
By Jane R. Elgass If you’ve got a good one, chances are you brighten other people’s day. If you’ve got a bad one, you may be alienating colleagues at work and even your friends. And a bad one may be costing you a promotion or appointment to a new position. It’s all about attitudes. “Studies…
May 8, 2000
By Rebecca A. Doyle Delphine Lewis (left), product manager, UMI Dissertations Publishing, Bell & Howell Information Learning, with Dissertation Award recipients Nicolas H. Bonadeo, Elena Rebeca Gutiérrez, Jennifer Ferol Trimble and Jeng-Horng Chen. Rackham Dean Earl Lewis is at right. Photo by Rebecca A. Doyle Four recent graduates were honored for their doctoral dissertations at…
May 8, 2000
From the Arts of Citizenship Program The Arts of Citizenship Program (AoC) has announced the recipients of its second round of faculty grants for public and community-based scholarly work in the arts and humanities. “I am excited by the range and creativity of the proposals we received,” says David Scobey, associate professor of architecture and…
May 8, 2000
By Kara Gavin Health System Public Relations The Health System (UMHS) has taken the next step in ensuring its future financial health by asking clinical and administrative units to work together to seek new cost efficiencies and clinical redesign opportunities, while continuing to improve the quality of patient services and increase total revenues. The initiative…
May 8, 2000
By Wanda Monroe Office of the University Chief Information Officer On May 4, computer users worldwide signed on to e-mail to find what they believed to be a love letter from a friend, co-worker or acquaintance. While perhaps surprised by the subject line, what they really found was a potent virus called VBScript/Love Letter. The…
May 8, 2000
By Jane R. Elgass The appointment of Barry Rabe as interim dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) will be recommended to the Regents at their June meeting. The appointment would be effective July 1 and is expected to be for an initial 12-month term while a national search is conducted. Rabe…
