January 25, 1993
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services In three cities in Alabama that were important in the history of the civil rights movement, those who are old enough to remember life before the movement are stunned by the changes that have taken place, while those too young to remember are dismayed by the persistence of…
January 25, 1993
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services A quarter of a century after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, society has failed to attain the slain leader’s dream of brotherhood, racial harmony and equal opportunity, according to Oscar Barbarin, director of the Center for the Child and the Family. Barbarin led off a U-M panel discussing…
January 25, 1993
Four faculty members were given the emeritus title by the Regents at their Jan. 21 meeting. They are: Nathalie A. Drews, associate professor of social work Drews was “one of the School of Social Work’s leading instructors in the area of interpersonal practice and was an authority on the family life cycle, particularly in the…
January 25, 1993
The Museum of Art again this year is offering a trip to Italy, focusing on Italian villas and palaces. The trip is scheduled April 30–May 13. From bases in Florence and Venice, the tour will visit some of the most beautiful villas and gardens in Italy. Home base in Florence will be the U-M’s Villa…
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,…
