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October 10, 1994
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services Terry Savage, Chicago Sun-Times financial columnist and author of Terry Savage’s New Money Strategies for the ’90s, will give the University’s fifth annual Mullin-Welch Lecture on “Making Money Work” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 12) in Hale Auditorium. It is sponsored by the Center for the Education of…
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October 10, 1994
Responding to Greek Activities Review Panel (GARP) sanctions against the fraternity, members of the Alpha chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon have voted to return the chapter’s charter to its national organization. The former Sig Eps plan to continue living at the house as rent-paying tenants, but will no longer function as a fraternity, according to…
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October 10, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services M.R.C. Greenwood, associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, spent a day here last week to discuss the new context of science in an era of limited resources and shifting priorities. “Scientists and policy-makers face the challenge of articulating the relationship…
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October 10, 1994
M-Link, the collaborative program between U-M-Flint and Mott Community College (MCC), has received $54,000 in renewal funding from the Office of Minority Equity of the Michigan Department of Education through its College/University Partnership Program. M-Link, managed by Flint Admissions Director David James and Coordinator Kendall West, actively recruits qualified underrepresented minority students at MCC, who…
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October 10, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services Plans for the University’s Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium in January 1995 are in full swing. The symposium features MLK Memorial Lecturer Benjamin L. Hooks, former executive director of the NAACP. Hooks, who served as head of the world’s largest and oldest civil rights organization…
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October 10, 1994
Staff members from across the Uni-versity are being encouraged to attend the first all-University M-Quality Expo at the Michigan Union Oct. 20–21. Under a theme of “Creating the Future: Sharing What We Are Learning,” the Expo is designed to provide “a new way for all of us to learn about improvements and innovations in the…
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October 10, 1994
By Sage Arron The 34th Werner E. Bachmann Memorial Lecture, featuring Paul A. Wender of Stanford University, will be hosted by the Department of Chemistry at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 18 in Room 1210, Chemistry Building. Wender’s topic will be “The Chemistry-Medicine Continuum: Synthetic, Biological, and Computer Studies on New Medicinal Leads.” Wender is the Bergstrom…
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October 10, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank As dean of the U-M’s largest college, LS&A Dean Edie N. Goldenberg says she occasionally receives a letter of complaint from students or their parents. The 10 days before last Monday’s LS&A faculty meeting were memorable, Goldenberg told the faculty, because of the number and variety of positive comments she received…
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October 10, 1994
Raindrops were falling outside Sept. 30, but the sun was shining in the Michigan League Ballroom as the Center for the Education of Women (CEW) marked its 30th anniversary. Co-founded by Louise Cain, who wrote the proposal for CEW, and Jean Campbell, the Center was the first of its kind on any American campus, one…
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October 10, 1994
By Jane R. Elgass Reflecting on the Michigan Agenda for Women, President James J. Duderstadt told a group of women of color that “first we try to change behavior. If that doesn’t work, we’ll change people.” The president addressed the women of color at a Sept. 30 roundtable discussion sponsored by the Women of Color…
