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September 8, 1992
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services College of Pharmacy researchers have developed a biochemical “Trojan horse” designed to smuggle oral medication through gastrointestinal tract membranes and into the bloodstream before the drug is destroyed during the digestive process. In recent tests of the technique using alpha-methyldopa (marketed as Aldo-met)—a common generic drug used to…
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September 8, 1992
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services A U-M scientist has added a critical piece to the rapidly emerging picture of nitric oxide—a mysterious gas that appears to control blood vessel dilation, kill parasitic pathogens and regulate the transmission of nerve impulses in the brain. Michael A. Marletta, who in 1985 discovered the key role…
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September 8, 1992
Peter M. Banks, dean, College of Engineering; Giles G. Bole Jr., dean, Medical School; Jon Cosovich, vice president for development; James J. Duderstadt, president; Edie N. Goldenberg, LS&A Dean; Walter Harrison, executive director, university relations; Maureen A. Hartford, vice president for student affairs; Robert S. Holbrook, associate vice president for academic affairs; Clinton B. Jones,…
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September 8, 1992
Manfred Lachs, justice on the International Court of Justice, The Hague, will present the William W. Bishop Lectureship in International Law at 4 p.m. Wed. (Sept. 9) in Room 250, Hutchins Hall, Law School. The lecture hall is wheelchair-accessible. The lectureship honors the late William W. Bishop Jr., the Edwin DeWitt Dickinson Professor of Law,…
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September 8, 1992
By Harriet Teller Michigan Radio Michigan Radio, USC Radio (University of Southern California) and Carlson Marketing Group Automotive Division (CMG Automotive) have announced a major grant to fund local underwriting in Michigan and Los Angeles of Marketplace, American Public Radio’s daily program on business and the global economy. The show can be heard weekdays at…
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September 8, 1992
This fall, students in selected high schools in Madison Heights, Bloomfield Hills, Northville, Walled Lake and Detroit will be able to connect their classroom workstations to the Internet, allowing them access to such things as data from Voyager II, political debate with students in Japan and mentoring programs with U-M faculty. Project Connect, a partnership…
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September 8, 1992
“Studies Seeks Subjects” listings are subject to a $25 per listing, per issue fee. Account numbers, to be billed monthly, must accompany request for listing. Listings are due by 5 p.m. the Tuesday preceding publication. Healthy men or women ages 21–48 needed for sleep study. Participants must be social drinkers with no drug use and…
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September 8, 1992
Marina v.N. Whitman, vice president and group executive for the public affairs and marketing staffs at General Motors Corp., will be a distinguished visiting professor of business administration and public policy this year. Whitman will have a joint teaching appointment in the School of Business Administration and the Institute of Public Policy Studies. A nationally…
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September 8, 1992
Shirley A. Clarkson, director of presidential communications in the Office of University Relations, has joined the Office of Student Affairs as director of planning and communication. In announcing the appointment last week, Vice President for Student Affairs Maureen A. Hartford said she looks forward to having Clarkson “help us improve our communication with students. “I…
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September 8, 1992
Turner Geriatric Services’ Learning in Retirement program will offer its annual Distinguished Lecturer Series and a second lecture series titled “The Theatre” this fall at the Kellogg Eye Center Auditorium, 990 Wall St. The Distinguished Lecturer Series (10 a.m. on Tuesdays) begins Sept. 15 with David A. August, assistant professor of surgery, discussing “AIDS—Personal Dilemmas,…
