November 2, 1992
By Rebecca A. Doyle Lois Moses likes people. Through her work in the admissions office of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, she meets lots of people, including international students, and enjoys them all. But that isn’t enough. Each week, Moses volunteers her time to Respite Volunteers of Washtenaw, through Catholic Social Services.…
November 2, 1992
Media critic Jean Kilbourne will kick off the National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week (Nov. 8–13) at U-M with a presentation on alcohol advertising 8 p.m. Sunday (Nov. 8) in Auditorium 3, Modern Languages Building. The writer, lecturer and documentary filmmaker will present “Under the Influence: The Pushing of Alcohol Via Advertising,” a lecture and slide…
November 2, 1992
Kallie Bila Michels Cancer Center Public Relations Researchers at the Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a protein that has the potential to determine the prognosis of sarcoma patients. Paul S. Meltzer, assistant professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases and of radiation oncology, and his colleagues say the finding is especially important because it may have…
November 2, 1992
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services A U-M chemist has developed the first ultrasmall fiber-optic sensor capable of monitoring chemical properties within a living cell. With a tip visible only under magnification, the new sensor is 1,000 times smaller than existing fiber-optic sensors and responds in milliseconds, or 100 times faster than current optical…
November 2, 1992
By Mary Jo Frank Normally, voters are bored with presidential politics by mid-October in an election year, says Holli A. Semetko, assistant professor of communication and of political science. Not so this year. “This year people are very, very interested in this campaign. And the campaign is dealing with serious issues. We also have a…
November 2, 1992
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services If our prehistoric ancestors were touring a museum with modern day visitors, their tastes in landscape paintings might be surprisingly similar. “Human beings seem intuitively to prefer scenes that are coherent and accessible but slightly mysterious. They also are inclined toward landscapes that make them feel that, if…
November 2, 1992
Ward heads pathology group Peter A. Ward, chair of the Department of Pathology, has been named president of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. The 6,000-member organization is the North American component of the International Academy of Pathology. Book on race , environment edited by Bryant, Mohai Race and the Incidence of Environmental…
November 2, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services The fourth in a series of five conferences on “Jews and the Encounter with the New World, 1492/1992” will be held here on Nov. 8. Scholars from the U-M and other institutions will discuss “Jews, Conversos and the Inquisition in the New World.” The conference is part of…
November 2, 1992
The Kresge Hearing Research Institute has received a $7 million, four-year award from the National Institutes of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to study hearing and the causes of deafness. Knowledge gained from the study will benefit more than 20 million American who suffer from some form of hearing loss. Researchers are working to understand…
November 2, 1992
Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang, the Samuel A. Goudsmit Visiting Professor at the U-M, will give the first Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics at 4 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 3) in Rackham Amphitheater. Yang, the Einstein Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, will discuss “Considerations on Carbon 60: Supermolecules,…
