April 4, 1994
Research, ethics topic of presentation David H. Smith, director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University, will discuss “Research and the Teaching of Ethics” at 3:15 p.m. today (April 4) in Rackham Amphitheater. The lecture, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, will be followed…
April 4, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services A U-M biochemist may have discovered why women dental assistants who are exposed to high levels of a common anesthetic called nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, have more trouble getting pregnant than women in other occupations. According to Rowena G. Matthews, professor of biological chemistry and research scientist…
April 4, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle Two undergraduate students and two faculty members will be honored at the Michigan Association of Governing Boards of State Universities’ (MAGB) 13th annual Higher Education Awards Convocation Wednesday (April 6) in Lansing. Katherine M. Metres, a senior in the LS&A Honors Program, “has contributed to the life of this campus in…
April 4, 1994
By Jane R. Elgass Results of a telephone survey on the proposed flexible benefits program are now being reviewed by the Flexible Benefits Advisory Committee, which hopes to make a final recommendation to the Executive Officers this month. “The telephone survey was designed to collect broad-based input from across the University on the study of…
April 4, 1994
Dean Edie N. Goldenberg’s announced plan to suspend faculty self-governance for the Department of Communication should alarm faculty members across the campus. The Dean has not yet provided a written explanation of the steps she intends to take, the process by which she arrived at her plan of action, the rationale for the steps nor…
April 4, 1994
By Marion T. Marzolf, professor of communication On January 14, Dean Edie Goldenberg called a meeting of the faculty of the Department of Communication. We were all urged to attend. She announced that our chair of two years, Neil Malamuth, currently on leave, would leave Michigan. (We later learned that he would return to his…
April 4, 1994
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services Recent immigration is leading California to “export” poverty-level, low-skilled residents to Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, according to a U-M study presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. “A chain reaction seems to be occurring between the arrival of low-skilled immigrants to Los Angeles…
April 4, 1994
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services With smoking on the rise among American teen-agers, the question of how to keep them away from cigarettes and other drugs has assumed renewed urgency. A U-M study suggests that part of the answer is to increase children’s educational success. Not only are students who get good grades…
April 4, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Using space-age technology they developed, University of Michigan scientists will help NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour count trees in a 2,500-square-mile section of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The shuttle is scheduled for launch on Thursday (April 7). “The immediate goal of the experiment is to use radar imaging data from…
April 4, 1994
Rate increases for long-term disability coverage that will affect departmental and/or staff member costs went into effect April 1. According to Craig Jorgeson, manager, Benefits Office, the increase was prompted by a 50 percent increase in the number of disabled individuals receiving benefits in the last two to three years. Prior to 1990, Jorgeson says,…
