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…
May 8, 2000
By Amy Reyes News and Information Services Joan Kellenberg (standing), a family nurse practitioner, with Elmira Collins, the community outreach coordinator at the Community Family Health Center on Ann Arbor’s west side. Photo by Rebecca A. Doyle The Community Family Health Center (CFHC) in Ann Arbor offers a holistic approach to health care that has…
May 8, 2000
Stuart Sankey The School of Music is saddened to announce the loss of Prof. Stuart Sankey, a seminal force in the world of the classical double bass. Sankey died May 1 in Ann Arbor after a determined struggle against, and complications from, myelofibrosis, a bone marrow disease. Sankey was born in Los Angeles, Calif., in…
May 8, 2000
By Britt Halvorson The earthenware and terra sigillata pieces shown above were part of a 1995 installation in Vancouver, British Columbia, of Sadashi Inuzuka’s work, titled ‘Nature of Things,’ that included 600 pieces and covered 6,000 square feet. Photo courtesy Sadashi Inuzuka A focus on form and the evolutionary process as they relate to artistic…
May 8, 2000
Graduating students, families, faculty and speakers welcomed unseasonably warm weather at commencement ceremonies April 28 and 29. Graduation exercises on the Ann Arbor campus began at 3 p.m. April 28 for master’s and doctoral candidates who made their way to Hill Auditorium (at right). Musician and historian Bernice Johnson Reagon addressed the advanced-degree candidates. Spring…
May 8, 2000
By Sally Pobojewski Health System Public Relations and News and Information Services Dixon Jack E. Dixon, the Minor J. Coon Professor of Biological Chemistry and chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry, and Martinus J.G. Veltman, the John D. MacArthur Professor Emeritus of Physics and winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in physics, are among…
May 8, 2000
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services David O. Woodruff wrote from the California gold fields to his six-year-old son in Niles on stationery pre-printed with scenes depicting some of the activities and lifestyles of the Gold Rush. Woodruff had ‘placed’ his son with relatives when he set out to search for gold. The paper…
May 8, 2000
By Marcus Popiolek U-M-Flint University Alumni Relations The start of the RN/BSN Online Opportunity Program, which gives licensed nurses who already have a diploma or associate’s degree in nursing the opportunity to complete a bachelor’s degree online, was announced by U-M-Flint officials May 3. Nursing students everywhere can access the program at http://umflintonline.org. “The critical…
May 8, 2000
By Pete Barkey Health System Public Relations Physically demanding working conditions lead to a significant risk of adverse outcomes for pregnant women, demonstrating the need for a better national maternity leave policy, according to a new study by researchers in the Health System. Their study—which comes amidst a growing national debate over maternity leave guidelines—is…
May 8, 2000
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services This portrait of Robert Frost hangs in the Special Collections Room of the Hatcher Graduate Library. Photo courtesy U-M Photo Services Just when residents of Southeast Michigan were looking forward to the last frost of the 1920–21 season, U-M president Marion L. Burton was looking forward to the…
