October 31, 1994
Its renovations and face lift almost completed, the Undergraduate Library has been renamed the Harold T. and Vivian B. Shapiro Library. The name change was approved by the Regents at their October meeting. In presenting the request for renaming, Regent Philip A. Power noted that Shapiro is the only former president for whom a building…
October 24, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Responsibility Center Management (RCM) won’t bring revolutionary change to the University, predicts Oscar A. Barbarin. But it should give individual units and the University more authority to make rational decisions about how to deploy human and financial resources, Barbarin told Senate Assembly members last Monday. Barbarin, professor of social work and…
October 24, 1994
Eight people, including two incumbents, are running for the Board of Regents in next week’s election. They are: Paul W. Brown Undergraduate education, including student experiences in and outside of the classroom, is one of the major issues facing the U-M, according to Regent Paul W. Brown, a Mackinac Island Democrat. Brown would like to…
October 24, 1994
Senate Assembly overwhelmingly refused to endorse a report critical of the January suspension of faculty governance in the Department of Communication but will forward the report to the LS&A Executive Committee, faculty in the Department of Communication and the governing faculty of LS&A for responses. The Assembly voted 27-10 with one abstention last Monday to…
October 24, 1994
The Department of Public Safety (DPS) will be cooperating in a multi-agency task force formed by the Ann Arbor Police to identify and apprehend the man believed to be responsible for a homicide and series of rapes in Ann Arbor over the past two years. The task force is comprised of 12 investigators and a…
October 24, 1994
Fornaess awarded Bergman Trust John Eric Fornaess, professor of mathematics, has been selected by the American Mathematical Society as the 1994 awardee of the Stefan Bergman Trust. The prize recognizes mathematical accomplishments in the areas of research in which Bergman worked. Adams heads Division 40 of the APA Kenneth M. Adams, professor of psychiatry and…
October 24, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Norse settlers living in doomed colonies on the coast of Greenland 500 years ago may have left clues to their mysterious disappearance in teeth from their graves. A U-M study of teeth from early Viking settlements appears to confirm the theory that rapidly cooling temperatures during the onset…
October 24, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services International film-music scholar Gillian B. Anderson will conduct the orchestral score to Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent horror-film classic, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday (Oct. 29) at the Michigan Theater. The first movie based on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, the film will feature Hans Erdmann’s musical score restored by…
October 24, 1994
Editor’s Note: The Regents took the following actions at their October meeting. Nursing prof joins faculty Loretta Sweet-Jemmott, a faculty member at Columbia University School of Nursing, will become professor of nursing, with tenure, effective July 1, 1995. 3 administrators appointed Anne Percy Knott, assistant dean and director of development and alumni relations at the…
October 24, 1994
By Bruce Weintraub Medical Center Public Relations The Medical Center saved more than $450,000 during fiscal year 1993–94 as a result of changes implemented through employee suggestions. Rick Finger, manager of the Medical Center’s employee suggestion program, said that 36 cost-saving suggestions—from a record number of 500 submissions—were implemented during the past fiscal year, dealing…
