January 25, 1993
By Rebecca A. Doyle The Institutional File System (IFS), one of the most important steps in the University’s move from a centralized to a distributed computing system, is available across the campus to those with Macintosh or Unix workstations and Ethernet or LocalTalk connections to the campus backbone network. IFS service for IBM-PCs and compatibles…
January 25, 1993
From Travel Services Northwest Airlines has signed an agreement with the University that offers discounts on air fares for travel undertaken for recruiting purposes. University departments conducting faculty searches or undertaking student recruitment are encouraged to distribute the following information to those making airline reservations. —Effective dates of travel: Jan. 15–June 30, 1993. —Eligible participants:…
January 25, 1993
A $150,000 endowment to strengthen understanding of international reporting has been received by the Michigan Journalism Fellows Program, a gift from the Pryor Foundation of Ann Arbor. Income from the gift will be used to bring in seminar speakers, sponsor travel and provide material for the fellows, who come to the University for sabbatical study…
January 25, 1993
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services The utopian quest for physical perfection will be the topic of “The Utopian Body: Medicine, Technology, and Ethics,” a conference sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities on Saturday (Jan. 30) in the Assembly Hall, Rackham Building. The free, public conference will bring specialists in medicine and the…
January 25, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass “We are now part way across the street trying to get to the other side and there are lots of trucks going in both directions.” That was how President James J. Duderstadt characterized the University’s progress in reaching the goals of the Michigan Mandate at last week’s Regents’ meeting. His remarks…
January 18, 1993
Editor’s Note: The following books have been published by the U-M Press. Singular Europe: The Economy and Polity of the European Community after 1992, edited by William James Adams, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Economics. The implementation of Project 1992 has invigorated Europe—the old continent—with the strength and vitality of youth. In Singular Europe,…
January 18, 1993
The University has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice regarding inadvertent overcharges for federally funded research use of the U-M’s academic mainframe computer, the Michigan Terminal System (MTS). The University will pay the government $2.8 million for inadvertently overcharging researchers on federal grants for…
January 18, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Robert L. Robb, the newly hired director of the Intellectual Properties Office (IPO), is looking for researchers who share his vision and enthusiasm for the benefits technology transfer can bring to the University and to the local economy. “One of the inherent charters of all institutions of higher…
January 18, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Senate Assembly members are moving ahead with two plans to evaluate high ranking University administrators. Two resolutions—one calling for periodic reviews of executive offices every five to seven years and the other for annual evaluations of deans and Executive Officers—were approved at the Assembly’s December meeting. The individual evaluations would be…
January 18, 1993
Just a reminder—the University commemorates Martin Luther King today through a symposium and number of unit-sponsored events. Classes have been suspended and supervisors are encouraged to provide release time for staff to attend programs of interest to them. Opening the symposium at 11 a.m. will be Author Bebe Moore Campbell. Columnist Julianne Malveaux will close…
