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April 22, 1997
The University Record, April 22, 1997 Engineering students display prototypes Twenty-three prototype machines and devices designed and built by mechanical engineering students were displayed at Design Expo ’97 last Thursday. Above, Daniel Youtt (left), Michael Gundle, Janet Roberts and Mark Raidl demonstrate their method of producing a smoother and more consistent form of propulsion. Each…
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April 22, 1997
The University Record, April 22, 1997 Column part of campus lore The neo-Corinthian column by Lorch Hall is the subject of campus rumor as well as legend. While undergraduates are told that it is the sole remnant of a Greek civilization that once thrived on Central Campus, University Planner Fred Mayer maintains it was a…
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April 22, 1997
The University Record, April 22, 1997 Homeless winners in bedroll project If you listened closely, you might have heard the words to “Do Re Mi” from the Sound of Music. But it wasn’t play clothes for the Von Trapp children that were being fashioned from drapes. Fabric that once graced the windows of the Michigan…
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April 22, 1997
The University Record, April 22,, 1997 Symposium explores experience of healing by ancient methods By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services A conch horn wailed, a drum throbbed and cedar incense wafted through the Pendleton Room at the Michigan Union April 15 as Cristino B. Perez, an Aztec shaman, opened the symposium, “Indigenous Healing: Alive…
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April 22, 1997
The University Record, April 22, 1997 University a national leader in work abroad programs By Carlean Ponder News and Information Services When graduate student Tanus Saad first stepped off the plane in Brazil, the volunteer mission that took him there was the farthest thing from his mind. “The first thing I felt was insecurity,” Saad…
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April 22, 1997
The University Record, April 22, 1997 Computers won’t solve the nation’s education problems, Wharton says By Jared Blank Clifton Wharton doesn’t believe that computers will solve the fundamental educational problems facing American youths. At a recent address in Rackham Amphitheater, the former president of Michigan State University and chairman and CEO of TIAA-CREF discussed the…
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April 22, 1997
The University Record, April 22, 1997 Arb use by ROTC units questioned by public comments speakers By Jane R. Elgass Use of the Arboretum by ROTC students was brought before the Regents during their public comments session last week by members of the U-M and Ann Arbor communities. Army and Navy ROTC units use the…
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April 22, 1997
The University Record, April 22, 1997 Asian design competition leads to academic collaboration From the College of Architecture and Urban Planning The recent successful completion of a design competition for the Kyoung Ki Provincial Headquarters in Korea signals an example of international professional and academic collaboration. Mooyoung Architects & Engineers (Korea), Minoru Yamasaki Associates (Rochester…
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April 22, 1997
The University Record, April 22, 1997 Spring issue of MQR features look at history of the computer By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services Professor emeritus Arthur W. Burks, who helped design and build one of the world’s first electronic computers, gives a first-hand account of who really invented the precursor of today’s personal computers…
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April 22, 1997
The University Record, April 22, 1997 Former Journalism Fellow wins Pulitzer Prize From the Michigan Journalism Fellows Program Mike Vitez, who studied writing as a Michigan Journalism Fellow in 1994-95 while on leave from the Philadelphia Inquirer, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, a category that stresses elegant writing. His five-part series focused…
