November 23, 1992
New indirect cost rate for federally sponsored research The University has recently completed its protracted negotiations with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) regarding the indirect cost rate applicable to federally sponsored research projects for FY 1992-93. Effective immediately, the indirect cost rate applicable to all research proposals submitted to federal agencies is…
November 23, 1992
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) and LS&A have awarded the 1992–93 CRLT-LS&A Postdoctoral Fellowships to nine assistant professors to help them devote time to develop courses that they then will teach. “The awards give some counterweight to the pressure junior faculty feel to focus…
November 23, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass In a 6-2 vote last week the Board of Regents approved implementation on an interim basis of “The University of Michigan’s Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities,” effective Jan. 1 for one year. It will be reevaluated in February 1994. Regents Deane Baker and Veronica Latta Smith opposed adoption of the…
November 23, 1992
CARMEL, the U-M’s prize-winning robot, was a cross-disciplinary project between College of Engineering departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. CARMEL’s ultrasonic avoidance sensing system was developed by Yoram Koren, professor ofmechanical engineering and applied mechanics, and Johann Borenstein, U-M assistant research scientist.
November 23, 1992
John H. D’Arms, vice provost for academic affairs and dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, will discuss “Ar duous, Pleasant and Hopeful toil: Values in and Beyond Graduate Education” at 4 p.m. Dec. 8 in Rackham Ampitheater. D’Arms is also the Gerald F. Else Professor of Classical Studies and professor of…
November 23, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services A vastly transformed Undergraduate Library will house the University’s new Science Library: a consolidation of all science collections on campus, with the exception of engineering and medical sciences. Museums collections will remain where they are. The Regents last week approved the design of a $6.85 million addition to…
November 23, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass Persons of color now comprise 12.9 percent of the Ann Arbor campus instructional staff following another year of growth in minority numbers reported in this fall’s faculty racial profile. Growth in minority faculty continues to be steady, though not at the high rates experienced in the late 1980s. While more new…
November 23, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass Several Regents last week expressed their frustration with the search process for the selection of the new U-M-Dearborn chancellor. The Regents were not part of the process. Noting that they had no quarrel with the selection of James C. Renick, they commented on the constraints imposed by the Open Meetings Act.…
November 23, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services LS&A senior Denise C. Bell has been awarded a Power Exchange Scholarship for two years of study beginning next fall at Magdalene College of Cambridge University. Bell, who is from Lapeer, will complete a bachelor’s degree in history from the U-M in May 1993. A 1989 graduate of…
November 23, 1992
John H. Holland, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and of psychology, has been chosen as the 1993 Russel Lecturer. The annual lectureship is the highest honor the University gives to senior faculty members. Holland was nominated for the honor by the U-M Research Club and was confirmed by the Regents at their November…
