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January 10, 1994
To increase campus security, the Department of Public Safety (DPS) in December increased its patrols around major residence halls on both Central and North campuses and opened three Central Campus parking structures for free parking in the evening for students and employees. In the pilot program that will continue through the end of January, students,…
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January 10, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank As part of his duties at the Flint Journal, Lewis A. Morrissey gained first-hand experience using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to ferret out facts for investigative reports. Understanding the FOIA from a journalist’s perspective will come in handy, predicts Morrissey, who assumed his duties as the U-M’s new freedom…
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January 10, 1994
The Museum of Art recently received the largest single gift in its history: four paintings by Pablo Picasso and one painting by Picasso’s Spanish contemporary, Juan Gris. Given by the Carey Walker Foundation of Port Huron, the paintings join a range of Picasso prints and drawings in the Museum’s permanent collection. The Museum will hold…
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January 10, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services Editor’s Note: See pages 7–10 for a listing of U-M events scheduled to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. Equity in education, the civil rights movement, social justice and the multicultural university will be featured in panel discussions commemorating the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. next Monday…
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January 10, 1994
Ada Sue Hinshaw, director of the National Institute for Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will be recommended to the Board of Regents at their January meeting as dean of the School of Nursing. Her appointment would be for a five-year term, effective July 1, 1994. In announcing the recommendation, Provost Gilbert…
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January 10, 1994
Every day, 16 hours per day for two years, hundreds of University Hospital staff members tirelessly toiled toward a common goal: the designation of Uni-versity Hospital as a level-one trauma center. Following a grueling evaluation process by the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the hospital in July became one of four in Michigan to attain…
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January 10, 1994
Michigan sky watchers will have no trouble picking out the brilliant stars that make up Orion, the constellation of the Great Hunter, in January’s evening skies, according to astronomer Richard G. Teske. “Orion shows us colorful examples of stars that astronomers designate red, white and blue,” Teske says. “Decide for yourself if each star’s color…
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January 10, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services The second of a special two-part Michigan Quarterly Review (MQR) devoted to the male body is now available. The winter 1994 edition contains essays, fiction, poetry and graphics examining male sexuality; body image; aging; puberty; AIDS; and the male body in contemporary art, science fiction and Hollywood cinema.…
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January 10, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle The President’s Advisory Commission on Women’s Issues has issued a summary report of responses from senior women faculty to questions about the environment at the U-M and what they perceive to be barriers or supportive structures in that environment. Twenty-four senior women faculty responded to the invitation to participate in focus…
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January 10, 1994
Jackie R. McClain, director of human resources at the University of Kansas, will be recommended to the Board of Regents as the executive director for human resources and affirmative action, to be effective Feb. 15. In announcing the recommendation, Provost Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr. and Farris W. Womack, executive vice president and chief financial officer,…
