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October 31, 1994
William K. Frankena William K. Frankena, the Roy Wood Sellars Distinguished College Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, died Oct. 22 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. He was 86. Frankena, an historian of ethics, came to the U-M in 1937 as an instructor and retired in 1978. His textbook Ethics, first published in 1963, has been translated…
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October 31, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Like most research scientists, Andrea Foote must produce a steady flow of grant applications to raise money for her research. “I have to fund my own salary. I actually like it because it gives me the freedom to do what I want to do in the stable environment of the University,”…
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October 31, 1994
From Medical Center Public Relations The Board of Regents, at its October meeting, approved the site master plan for a new ambulatory care medical campus in northeast Ann Arbor. The East Medical Campus, which will provide primary and secondary care in a patient-centered environment, will be built in an area bounded by Plymouth and Earhart…
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October 31, 1994
The University and NIKE have joined in a project that will, among other things, create two women’s athletic scholarships and fund the nation’s first fellowship for sports reporters in the Michigan Journalism Fellows Program. Athletic Director Joe Roberson announced the agreement Oct. 20. Through separately negotiated agreements, NIKE will become the exclusive on-field supplier of…
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October 31, 1994
Basu wins National and Peace Fellowship Susanto Basu, assistant professor of economics, has received a post-doctoral National and Peace Fellowship from the Hoover Institution for 1994–95. The fellowships provide scholars an opportunity to spend one year at the Hoover Institution to conduct independent research on historical and public policy issues of the 20th century. Thiele…
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October 31, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank As a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) volunteer at the SOS Community Crisis Center, Sandy Haas distributed food to the hungry, found shelter for the homeless, did crisis counseling and even hung gutters. Seven years later, Haas, academic secretary in the Fellowships Office of the Horace H. Rackham School of…
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October 31, 1994
The University has scheduled a number of free, public events in connection with Alcohol Awareness Week: Sunday (Nov. 6) Filmfest: Days of Wine and Roses, 9 p.m., State Theater. Monday (Nov. 7) Crashed Car, from an alcohol-related accident, displayed on the Diag. Self-Help Panel Discussion, including Moderation Management, Alcoholics Anonymous, Women for Sobriety, Rational Recovery…
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October 31, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank “You are a powerful force for change. You can change this place. I’m convinced we have to change,” President James J. Duderstadt told a crowd of more than 500 women who attended a town hall meeting to discuss Duderstadt’s “Michigan Agenda for Women: Leadership for a New Century.” Flexible scheduling, child…
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October 31, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services A benefit reading for hunger relief will highlight the Visiting Writers Series during November. Share Our Strength’s “Writers Harvest: The National Reading,” to be held 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2 at Rackham Amphitheater, will feature fiction and poetry readings by faculty members Charles Baxter, Betty Louise Bell, Alice Fulton…
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October 31, 1994
“Bridges to Cuba,” a campuswide conference coinciding with the release of the second part of a special Michigan Quarterly Review (MQR) on Cuba, will be held Friday–Saturday (Nov. 4–5). About 25 Cuban and Cuban-American scholars, writers and artists, many of whom are featured in MQR’s Bridges to Cuba special issue, will present readings of their…
