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July 6, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass A lively, fast-paced, information-packed presentation on the University’s M-Quality initiative at the Board of Regents’ June meeting yielded an enthusiastic, supportive response from Board members. Farris W. Womack, vice president and chief financial officer, and Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr., provost and vice president for academic affairs, briefed the Regents on the…
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July 6, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank “A model scientist and colleague” is how other researchers describe Greg J. Duncan, a leading scholar on poverty and income dynamics and co-director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics project. Duncan, professor of economics, recently received the prestigious University Distinguished Research Scientist Award, which recognizes “exceptional scholarly achievement on the…
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July 6, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Two U-M robots—a Cybermotion K2A robot named CARMEL and a TRC Labmate named BORIS—will dodge obstacles, move boxes and fetch coffee as they compete against robots from 13 other universities and corporations in the Artificial Intelligence Robotics Competition and Exhibition, July 13–15, at the Washington Convention Center in…
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July 6, 1993
Three U-M undergraduate minority students have won National Science Foundation (NSF) Incentives for Excellence Scholarship Prizes for outstanding academic achievement. The recipients and amounts awarded: Tanya M. Clay, a sophomore in political science, $1,000; Richard A. Foshee and Tahesha L. Paige, both sophomores in electrical engineering, $500 each. Since 1987, the NSF has given scholarship…
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July 6, 1993
A $589 million operating expense budget for the U-M Hospitals was approved by the Regents at their June meeting. In the 1993–94 budget, effective July 1, the acute care daily room rate remains at $525 for the second year. This amount reflects a 21 percent reduction from the rate of two years ago. The average…
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July 6, 1993
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their June meeting. Units can borrow funds for equipment purchases The Regents authorized the University to use a small portion of its working capital to lend money to U-M units for equipment purchases. “The reasons for considering this idea,” Vice President Farris W. Womack…
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July 6, 1993
Nine faculty members were given the emeritus title by the Regents at their June meeting. Those retiring are: Norman E. Barnett, professor of architecture Barnett, who joined the U-M architecture faculty in 1967, taught senior and graduate level courses in architectural acoustics and architectural photography. “He was instrumental in the development of the environmental technology…
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July 6, 1993
Total quality is not a “foreign body” to higher education, but rather actually owes it roots to the U-M, where much of the early research on quality initiatives was done, according to Robert L. Kahn. Kahn told the Regents at their June meeting that there are two main “bloodlines” in research on quality, one involving…
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July 6, 1993
The next program in the television series “Conversations with President Duderstadt” will air nine times later this month on Ann Arbor Community Access Television (Channel 9). “Conversations” focuses on strategic issues affecting the University in particular and higher education in general. This program will focus on the arts. Joining Duderstadt will be Paul C. Boylan,…
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July 6, 1993
Members of the Council on Continuous Improvement are: Paula Allen-Meares, School of Social Work dean; Daniel E. Atkins III, School of Information and Library Studies dean; Peter M. Banks, College of Engineering dean; Robert M. Beckley, College of Architecture and Urban Planning dean; Giles G. Bole Jr., Medical School dean; Lee C. Bollinger, Law School…
