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July 6, 1993
By Michael Harrison Medical Center Public Relations The Medical Center and the Catherine McAuley Health System (CMHS) have joined forces to offer a residency program that trains physicians specializing in emergency medicine. A dozen recent medical school graduates will enter the new program in July. Residents will rotate between the emergency departments at U-M Hospitals,…
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July 6, 1993
By Jeffrey Mortimer College of Engineering Five staff members at the College of Engineering received awards for excellent service at a reception hosted by Dean Peter M. Banks in the atrium of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building (EECS) on May 27. This marked the second year in a row that the College bestowed…
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July 6, 1993
Ted Spencer already has under development a number of new initiatives designed to strengthen the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and the University’s recruiting activities. These include: Implementing continued strategies to personalize the recruitment process for prospective students. Reinforcing and managing significant, consistent empowering, one-to-one contact with prospective, admitted and enrolling underrepresented students. Implementing an on-line…
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July 6, 1993
Theodore L. Spencer will be recommended to the University of Michigan Board of Regents at its July meeting as director of undergraduate admissions. His appointment, if approved, will be effective Aug. 1. Spencer has served as interim director since June 1992, succeeding Richard Shaw. “It is with a great deal of pleasure that I recommend…
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July 6, 1993
Not all unexpected packages are welcome gifts, particularly if they come with lots of extra postage. Following recent mail bombings at Yale University and the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Leo J. Heatley says his office has received calls from faculty and staff about what they should do if…
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July 6, 1993
One-hour informational meetings about JOBNET, the University’s automated employment system for non-instructional staff hiring, will be held at noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the following locations: Thursday (July 8), Michigan Union Ballroom; July 12, Ford Amphitheater, University Hospital; July 13, East Room, North Campus Commons. With phase two of…
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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…
