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July 6, 1993
Editor’s Note: The following books have been published by the U-M Press. Lifted Masks and Other Works by Susan Glaspell (1882–1948), playwright and feminist, edited by Eric S. Rabkin, professor of English. This is the latest title in our Ann Arbor Paperback series. “Rarely do we meet with a writer who lifts the masks of…
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July 6, 1993
Editor’s Note: These summaries of research projects were presented to the Regents at their June meeting by William C. Kelly, vice president for research. The material here was prepared for the Record by the staff of ResearchNews, a publication of the Division of Research Development and Administration. Getting Started: An Environmental Education Directory Teachers interested…
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July 6, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Twenty-one euphoric U-M undergraduates on the Solar Car Team raced on foot behind driver Deanna Winton on June 26 as she piloted Maize & Blue to a first-place finish in Sunrayce 93 near the Minneapolis Zoo. The race was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and General…
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June 7, 1993
Social work Prof. Ira M. Schwartz, a leading authority in the areas of juvenile justice, child welfare and children’s mental health, has been named the dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Work, effective Aug. 1. Schwartz, who has taught here since 1987, is director of the Center for the Study of Youth…
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June 7, 1993
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services Students entering the University this fall will quickly become familiar with campus before classes begin, thanks to Welcome to Michigan ’93, an orientation week featuring informational events, social activities and recreational sports. Welcome to Michigan ’93, a new campuswide program beginning Sept. 2—the day residence halls are scheduled…
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June 7, 1993
Ballots were mailed in late May to bargained-for employees to elect a representative for a two-year term to the University’s Public Safety Oversight Committee. Mandated by state law, the committee receives and makes recommendaitons regarding grievances against public safety officers deputized by the Univeristy. The group is convened by Royster Harper, associate vice president for…
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June 7, 1993
The appointment of Law School Dean Lee C. Bollinger as provost of Dartmouth College was announced by Dartmouth President James O. Freedman May 24. “Dean Bollinger has a distinguished record of achievement as teacher, scholar and academic administrator. Most of all,” Freedman said, “he is an intellectual who cares deeply about ideas and liberal education.…
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June 7, 1993
From University Senior Faculty, Staff and Alumni Residential Community Inc. An informational meeting on the status the University Commons, the residential community long-envisioned by University of Michigan faculty and staff and open to U-M alumni, will be held at 7:30 p.m. June 28 in Rackham Amphitheater. A 100-apartment mid-rise building is being designed by the…
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June 7, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services The Siberian Snake, a series of magnets wrapped around the beam pipe of a particle accelerator, has turned out to be even more potent than expected in curing the “depolarization” problems of beams of spinning protons. The snake was designed to eliminate magnetic disorientations called depolarizing resonances that…
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June 7, 1993
Twenty-nine faculty/graduate student research teams have received funding in the latest round of the Research Partnership Program. The program, which began in 1987, is supported by the Office of the Dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Office of the Provost and…
