September 13, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Hiring more temporary employees through the U-M’s Temporary Staffing Services (TSS) could save the University lots of money. Cynthia A. Kabza says supervisors who use TSS also gain highly skilled temporary workers—many of whom are familiar with U-M policies and procedures—to pinch hit during peak work periods or when regular employees…
September 13, 1993
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services The appointment of Constance E. Cook as director of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) will be recommended to the Board of Regents at its September meeting. If approved, she will serve as director-designate of CRLT during September and October and as director beginning Nov.…
September 13, 1993
MartinusVeltman honored by European Physical Society Martinus J. Veltman, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics, has been awarded the 1993 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society. McVaugh book recognized Rogers McVaugh, curator emeritus of vascular plants and professor emeritus of botany, has received the Luz Maria Villarreal de Puga…
September 13, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services NASA has chosen a team of U-M atmospheric scientists to develop plans for an unmanned mission to Mars in 1998. Timothy L. Killeen, professor of atmospheric and space sciences and director of the Space Physics Research Laboratory, is the principal investigator of the MUADEE (Mars Upper Atmosphere Dynamics,…
September 13, 1993
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services Disagreements among doctors, nurses and parents about the future of the sickest newborns in the nation’s intensive care nurseries are common, according to a U-M sociologist. In 41 percent of the 75 cases studied by Prof. Renee R. Anspach, doctors, nurses or parents disagreed about whether babies should…
September 13, 1993
A series of four free programs designed to help spouses/partners of recently appointed faculty with the transition process to Ann Arbor and the U-M begin next week. Offered by the Office of the Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs-Personnel, this year’s program follows a successful pilot program in 1992. In addition to transition issues, the…
September 13, 1993
Vice President Farris W. Womack has announced that applications are being accepted for the 1994 Management Institute for Business and Finance staff. The intensive course is designed to provide professional and administrative staff with leadership and management training, as well as a broad perspective about the special needs of higher education. Those attending the institute…
September 13, 1993
Editor’s Note: See related stories on page 4 By Rebecca A. Doyle Approximately 900 new LS&A students and their parents found their way to Hill Auditorium Sept. 2 to listen to more experienced scholars talk about their undergraduate experiences. The LS&A welcome program was one of many in a week-long series of events designed to…
September 7, 1993
Wilma Thompson Donahue Wilma Thompson Donahue, internationally known authority on aging and director emeritus of the Institute of Gerontology, died at her home here Aug. 17 after a long illness. She was 92. Donahue began her career at the U-M in 1935 as one of the country’s first clinical psychologists, practicing at the Student Health…
September 7, 1993
Editor’s Note: The following books have been published by the U-M-Press. Palimpsest: Editorial Theory in the Humanities edited by English Profs. George Bornstein and Ralph G. Williams. This is the latest volume in our Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism series. Palimpsest assembles an extraordinarily distinguished group of leading practitioners and theorists, who examine editing in…
