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March 28, 1994
Laurence H. Baker has been appointed deputy director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center and associate chief of the division of Hematology-Oncology at the Medical Center. “We are pleased to be able to attract an individual of Baker’s stature for this important post,” says Max Wicha, center director. “He will bring not only exceptional clinical research…
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March 28, 1994
Editor’s Note: The following books have been published by the U-M Press. Water Distribution in Ancient Rome: The Evidence of Frontinus by Harry B. Evans, professor of classics, Fordham University. Over a span of several centuries, Rome supplied itself with a system of aqueducts that brought water to many neighborhoods and allowed the city to…
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March 28, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services Thanks to increased traffic-safety efforts in Michigan, more and more automobile drivers and motorcyclists are taking measures to protect themselves on roadways, according to a U-M study. Researchers stationed at 168 intersections and freeway exits throughout the state last fall observed 64.4 percent of drivers and front-seat passengers…
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March 28, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Thomas M. Dunn, Ronald J. Lomax and Alfredo Montalvo will begin serving three-year terms on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA) May 1. Dunn and Montalvo were elected at the March 21 Senate Assembly meeting to succeed John Birge and George Cameron. Lomax, who is completing a one-year term,…
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March 28, 1994
Avern Carroll, professor of anthropology, was given the emeritus title by the Regents at their March meeting. When Carroll joined the U-M in 1972, “he had an international reputation, both as a leading comparativist of the languages, societies, cultures, and populations of the South Pacific, and as an innovator in anthropological fieldwork methodologies,” the Regents…
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March 28, 1994
The University Library has been awarded a second year of funding by the U.S. Department of Education’s Title II-C program for a project to catalog 5,500 retrospective serial titles from the Labadie Collection in the Special Collections Library. The budget for year two is $81,850. The Labadie Collection is known for its extensive materials on…
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March 28, 1994
Three receive grants from arts groups Michael K. Daugherty, Gay Delanghe and Peter D. Sparling have received funds from the Creative Artist Grant Program, a partnership program of the Arts Foundation of Michigan and the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs. Daugherty is associate professor of music. His grant funds a new composition…
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March 28, 1994
Capital Cities/ABC Inc. announced today (March 28) a $750,000 gift to the Michigan Journalism Fellows program to establish a fellowship named for retiring president Daniel B. Burke. The endowment will sponsor a yearly academic program of study for a journalist working in either print or broadcast media. In addition to the national network, Capital Cities/ABC…
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March 14, 1994
By John Woodford News and Information Services If Americans had developed the political savvy the British gained in centuries of “flogging the wogs”—that is, of controlling colonial subjects and putting down national liberation movements—they could have come out of Vietnam with a measure of victory, and at far lower cost of life, resources and wealth…
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March 14, 1994
Students will be recognized for their academic achievement at the University’s annual Honors Convocation at 2 p.m. Sunday (March 20) in Hill Auditorium. The convocation address, titled “Honors at Michigan: More than a 4.0,” will be given by Maureen A. Hartford, vice president for student affairs. Leah N. Niederstadt, winner of a Rhodes Scholarship, and…
