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,…
November 2, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services Cooperation between private landowners and environmentalists, mixed with “good biology,” is the formula for successful conservation, the director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service told students last week at the School of Natural Resources and Environment seminar. Also necessary are resource managers who communicate well with…
November 2, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass A number of visiting scholars are expected to be on campus this year under the auspices of the Visiting Scholars Program in the Office of the Vice Provost for Minority Affairs. Rumors of the death of what was called the King/Chavez/Parks Visiting Scholars Program are untrue, says Vice Provost for Minority…
November 2, 1992
Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, authors of Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights and Taxes on American Politics, will deliver the Ben Yablonky Lecture at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Wallace House, home of the Michigan Journalism Fellows Program. Thomas Edsall has been a national political reporter at the Washington Post…
November 2, 1992
The Center for Human Growth and Development will host a symposium 1–5:30 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 4) in Rackham Amphitheater in honor of Stanley Marion Garn, who will retire in December. Garn, who joined the U-M in 1968, is professor of nutrition and of anthropology and a fellow in the center. The symposium will include a…
November 2, 1992
Nursing educators and practitioners from across the country were in Ann Arbor recently to honor U.S. Rep. Carl D. Pursell, R-Plymouth, as a leading congressional advocate for nursing, health care and education. “Since 1979, when a national coalition of nursing faculty and students worked successfully with his office to spearhead a fight to protect federal…
