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March 28, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Thomas M. Dunn, Ronald J. Lomax and Alfredo Montalvo will begin serving three-year terms on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA) May 1. Dunn and Montalvo were elected at the March 21 Senate Assembly meeting to succeed John Birge and George Cameron. Lomax, who is completing a one-year term,…
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March 28, 1994
Avern Carroll, professor of anthropology, was given the emeritus title by the Regents at their March meeting. When Carroll joined the U-M in 1972, “he had an international reputation, both as a leading comparativist of the languages, societies, cultures, and populations of the South Pacific, and as an innovator in anthropological fieldwork methodologies,” the Regents…
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March 28, 1994
The University Library has been awarded a second year of funding by the U.S. Department of Education’s Title II-C program for a project to catalog 5,500 retrospective serial titles from the Labadie Collection in the Special Collections Library. The budget for year two is $81,850. The Labadie Collection is known for its extensive materials on…
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March 28, 1994
Three receive grants from arts groups Michael K. Daugherty, Gay Delanghe and Peter D. Sparling have received funds from the Creative Artist Grant Program, a partnership program of the Arts Foundation of Michigan and the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs. Daugherty is associate professor of music. His grant funds a new composition…
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March 28, 1994
Capital Cities/ABC Inc. announced today (March 28) a $750,000 gift to the Michigan Journalism Fellows program to establish a fellowship named for retiring president Daniel B. Burke. The endowment will sponsor a yearly academic program of study for a journalist working in either print or broadcast media. In addition to the national network, Capital Cities/ABC…
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March 14, 1994
By John Woodford News and Information Services If Americans had developed the political savvy the British gained in centuries of “flogging the wogs”—that is, of controlling colonial subjects and putting down national liberation movements—they could have come out of Vietnam with a measure of victory, and at far lower cost of life, resources and wealth…
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March 14, 1994
Students will be recognized for their academic achievement at the University’s annual Honors Convocation at 2 p.m. Sunday (March 20) in Hill Auditorium. The convocation address, titled “Honors at Michigan: More than a 4.0,” will be given by Maureen A. Hartford, vice president for student affairs. Leah N. Niederstadt, winner of a Rhodes Scholarship, and…
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March 14, 1994
The Housing Division has asked Occupational Safety and Environmental Health (OSEH) staff to evaluate three spiral slides and 25 other standard metal slides on playgrounds that are part of Family Housing. The evaluation is being conducted in light of the accidental death in January of 5-year-old Nancy Sibley, according to Alan J. Levy, director of…
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March 14, 1994
Don Herbert, creator of the television program “Watch Mr. Wizard,” will receive an honorary doctor of science degree from U-M-Dearborn at its commencement exercises on April 24. “Watch Mr. Wizard,” which was broadcast each week from 1955 to 1965 on the NBC network, featured Herbert and a young boy or girl conducting scientific experiments with…
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March 14, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle The University’s Smoking Policy Revision Implementation Committee has announced two public hearings “to enable the University community and outside interested parties to bring forth data and their expressions of interest,” says committee chair Wendy N. Powell, personnel representative, Administrative Services Personnel Office. Public hearings on the proposed policy changes will be…
