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October 24, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle One of the pitfalls of teaching very large lecture courses, says Brian P. Coppola, is the temptation to aim instruction at the top 10 percent of students in that course, because those students “seem to be getting it.” Instead, he says, “I firmly believe that the people I can affect are…
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October 24, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Student robbed on Fletcher on a Sunday afternoon A female student was struck on the head and robbed while walking in the 200 block of Fletcher Street at 2 p.m. Oct. 9. The alleged assailant was apprehended 15 minutes later, after being spotted by DPS and Housing Security officers, reports Capt.…
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October 24, 1994
By Sage Arron On any given night in Ann Arbor there are people who don’t have a safe, comfortable place in which to sleep, take a bath, eat, or wash their clothes. The creation of the Shelter Association of Washtenaw County in 1984 was Ann Arbor’s response. “The Shelter was created because of an immediate…
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October 24, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Venture capitalists are discovering that University of Michigan research is an “untapped gold mine,” according to Robert L. Robb, director of the Technology Management Office. In a presentation to the Board of Regents last week on “Technology Transfer and Economic Development,” Robb said the level of interest shown…
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October 17, 1994
The next in a series of town meetings that are related to the Michigan Agenda for Women will be held at noon, Oct. 26, in Rackham Auditorium. Featuring President James J. Duderstadt, this meeting will focus on the concerns of staff women. A similar meeting with women of color was held earlier and one for…
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October 17, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank The U-M chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has noted a “drastic increase in the number of faculty grievances” it is receiving, according to Wilfred Kaplan. That increase is one of the reasons the local AAUP, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA) and the Academic Women’s…
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October 17, 1994
Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, will give the Tanner Lecture on Human Values at 4 p.m. Fri. (Oct. 21) in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Kahneman’s topic is “The Cognitive Psychology of Consequences and Moral Intuition.”…
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October 17, 1994
From Wayne State University A $580,000 neighborhood empowerment plan proposed by the state’s three largest research universities—the U-M, Michigan State University and Wayne State University (WSU)—and supported by the city of Detroit has been funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The unprecedented three-university collaboration, formed at the request of Detroit Mayor…
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October 17, 1994
The University’s 20 percent plan—in which 20 percent of energy savings for the year are returned to the schools and colleges who cut their energy costs—resulted in total savings of $1,387,435 in fiscal year 1994. “Congratulations are in order,” says David W. Anderson, coordinator of energy management. Of the total saved, $277,487 will be distributed…
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October 17, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services On the fourth day of every August for the past 50 years, Miep Gies has closed her curtains and refused to answer the doorbell or telephone at her Amsterdam home. It was on that day in 1944 that she last saw Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl whose…
