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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…
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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…
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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…
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September 7, 1993
The University Record begins its 1993–94 publication schedule today (Sept. 7). Published by the Office of News and Information Services, the Record is distributed each Monday September–May, except during holiday periods, and biweekly June–August. As the University’s official publication, the Record carries articles of interest to faculty, staff and retirees, and letters to the editor…
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September 7, 1993
By Rebecca A. Doyle Faculty, staff and students returning to campus this fall may be shocked to see that the dollar amounts in their MTS accounts have fallen drastically. Beginning in July, the Information Technology Division (ITD) made changes in the rate structure for all customers except rates that were negotiated with external customers. But…
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September 7, 1993
By Margo Schneidman Medical Center Public Relations A team of researchers from the Department of Human Genetics has used gene therapy to cure Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in mice. DMD is the most common childhood form of this fatal disease. As reported in the Aug. 19 issue of Nature, the researchers inserted a corrected copy…
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September 7, 1993
Michigan residents who look up on clear nights this September will be treated to a great view of four of our solar system’s nine planets and the Summer Triangle—a large constellation made up of three bright stars, according to astronomer Richard G. Teske. “During September, Michigan skywatchers will be able to see the Summer Triangle—a…
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September 7, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Like boxers in training for the championship fight, U-M students and their solar car, Maize & Blue, are trimming down, psyching up and getting in shape for the “big one” in solar car racing—the World Solar Challenge across Australia that begins Nov. 7. The 21 undergraduates on the…
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September 7, 1993
Frederick C. Neidhardt, associate dean for faculty affairs at the Medical School, has been appointed associate vice president for research, effective Oct. 1 for a five-year term. In announcing the appointment, Vice President for Research Homer C. Neal said: “Given Prof. Neidhardt’s superlative understanding of research issues in the contemporary University, his wealth of administrative…
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September 7, 1993
Comments on these proposed revisions to Section 13.04 of the Regents’ Bylaws should be directed by Sept. 21 to the Office of the General Counsel, 4020 Fleming Administration Building 1340, telephone 764-0304. Proposed Revisions of Regents’ Bylaws Section 13.04. (Proposed additions are in bold, deletions are struck out.) Section 13.04 University of Michigan Alumni Association…
