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…
October 24, 1994
The planet Saturn and its remarkable rings will be visible in Michigan’s southern sky after dark for the next three months, according to astronomer Richard Teske. “Saturn provides a thrilling view when seen through a small telescope,” Teske says. “The smooth, cream-colored shapes of planet and rings seem toylike and unreal against the surrounding darkness…
October 24, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services Five journalists have been named 1994–95 Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellows at the U-M. They began a year of study of environmental science and policy and journalism practice in September. The fellows are: Janina de Guzman, a staff writer for the Japan Times. A Princeton graduate in English,…
October 24, 1994
University officials urged the state government to “begin reversing the downward trend in the real value of its appropriation” to the University. The state funding for the U-M Ann Arbor campus has “failed to keep up with inflation as measured by the Higher Education Price Index, so that the purchasing power of the appropriation has…
October 24, 1994
By Sage Arron Two classic plays will be performed later this month by The Aquila Theatre Company of London at the Trueblood Theatre in the Frieze Building. Aristophanes’ Wasps will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday (Oct. 26), and Sophocles’ Philoctetes will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday (Oct. 27). A free symposium,…
October 24, 1994
Is it a sculpture? A stage set? A costume? Or all three? Children can find out at “Shaping Space through Sculpture and Dance,” a Children’s Art Museum Program workshop that will be held 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Saturday. (Oct. 29) at the Museum of Art. Children will be able to watch Noguchi’s famous “spider dress” for…
October 24, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Servcies Alumnus Benjamin S. Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, will deliver the first “Spotlight on African American Alumni” lecture at 7 p.m. Thurs. (Oct. 27) at Hale Auditorium. Carson, who has a bachelor’s degree from Yale and a medical degree from the U-M, will…
October 24, 1994
Nobel Laureate Joseph H. Taylor will deliver the third annual Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics at 4 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 27) in Rackham Amphitheater. He will speak on “Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity.” Taylor is the James McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. Of Taylor’s discovery of the first binary pulsar, for…
October 24, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services The role of religion, spirituality and ethics in the life and mission of the University will be addressed in a “Day of Dialogue” at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday (Oct. 26) at the Michigan League’s Hussey Room. The free, public conference will feature presentations by President James J. Duderstadt; Regent…
October 24, 1994
In light of the recent assault and rape near Community High School, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center offers the following tips for those who walk alone: When walking or running in a remote or secluded area, try to go as part of a group. If you wear a portable stereo, keep the volume…
