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November 23, 1992
Ninety-eight Rackham Merit Fellows, the largest number of students as a group to achieve candidacy in their pursuit of doctoral degrees, were honored at a reception last week at the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies last week. Warren H. Whatley, associate dean for graduate recruitment and support, congratulated the fellows on “achieving this…
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November 23, 1992
By Mary Jo Frank Achieving an appropriate balance between rigid academic disciplines and riskier interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship is one of the major challenges facing the modern university, according to President James J. Duderstadt. Speaking to Senate Assembly Nov. 16 on “Redrawing the Boundaries: Developing a Structure for the New Intellectual Realities”, Duderstadt said that…
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November 23, 1992
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services Adoption often is hailed as a perfect solution. It gives the child the parents he needs and the parents a child to love. “But while adoption meets real social and personal needs, it simultaneously denies the child’s and the adoptive parents’ deeply held, unrealized wishes,” says Elinor B.…
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November 16, 1992
Joel D. Howell, associate professor of internal medicine, has received a Charles E. Culpepper Foundation Scholarship in Medical Humanities. He will receive $30,000 per year for three years to fund his research on how American physicians used medical equipment in 1925–50. He will focus on the equipment and its capabilities as well as on the…
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November 16, 1992
The global impact of free trade in the Western Hemisphere will be the focus of a two-day symposium here Friday and Saturday (Nov. 20–21). The free, public symposium, “Issues in the Formation of a Western Hemisphere Regional Bloc,” will be held in the Hussey Room of the Michigan League. “Now that we have reached agreement…
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November 16, 1992
Editor’s Note: The following books have been published by the U-M Press . Remembered Lives: The Work of Ritual, Storytelling, and Growing Older by Barbara Myerhoff. Edited and with an introduction by Marc Kaminsky, founding co-director of the Myerhoff Center, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Long before the current interest in gerontology came about, Myerhoff…
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November 16, 1992
CARMEL, the U-M robot that won first place in a national robotics competition last summer, has been chosen by the editors of Popular Science magazine to receive a “Best of What’s New” award for 1992. The “Best of What’s New” is an annual selection of the year’s 100 top products, technologies and scientific achievements as…
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November 16, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS) has received a $249,500 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to provide postdoctoral fellowships for scholars in the humanities to work on the theme of “African Peoples in the Industrial Age.” “Structural changes in the global economy have long linked African…
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November 16, 1992
The appointment of Laura McCain Patterson as University Registrar has been announced by Mary Ann P. Swain, associate vice president for academic affairs. She will assume her new duties May 1. Patterson will succeed Douglas R. Woolley, who has served as interim registrar since the retirement of Alfred A. Stuart in June. Patterson has been…
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November 16, 1992
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services The best part about living in Ann Arbor is the people, says Moscow aircraft designer Oleg Samoilovich, who is a visiting professor in aerospace engineering this term. “People are very friendly, open and straight-forward,” Samoilovich says. “I don’t feel like I’m in a foreign country.” Samoilovich, who speaks…
