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September 28, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services Six environmental managers from around the world recently arrived on campus for a year of intense study and training that may produce some solutions to problems of sustainable development in their countries. The visiting students—from India, the Philippines, Czechoslovakia, Columbia, Sri Lanka and Costa Rica—will take courses and…
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September 21, 1992
Waldo E. Sweet, professor emeritus of Latin and the teaching of Latin, died here Sept. 15 of complications from Parkinson’s Disease. He was 80 years old. Sweet was best known for his development of a new approach to teaching Latin based on the application of modern linguistic theories and modern language learning theories. His textbook,…
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September 21, 1992
Nine faculty and staff received special awards at the Sept. 14 LS&A faculty meeting for their teaching or student advising. Teaching award winners: Chi-Keung Cheung, assistant professor of mathematics. Cheung received the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award for his “creative and innovative application of computer technology in the classroom, in particular for his long labors in…
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September 21, 1992
By Mary Jo Frank Edie N. Goldenberg is saying “no” more often these days than she would like, but it’s paying off, the dean told her colleagues at LS&A’s September faculty meeting. By saying “no” and reducing the size of the Office of the Dean from five associate deans to four associate deans, the College…
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September 21, 1992
The University has been fined $1,250 by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for an incident that occurred at the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project research nuclear reactor June 8. In the incident, reactor operators removed a fuel element while the reactor core was running at low power, causing the reactor to shut down. A team of…
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September 21, 1992
Decontamination efforts were completed last week on the seventh floor of Medical Science Research Building I (MSRB I), where a small spill of low-level radioactive fluid during the weekend of Sept. 12–13 was unknowingly spread around the floor on the shoes of staff members and researchers. Mark L. Driscoll, U-M radiation safety officer, emphasizes that…
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September 21, 1992
By Rebecca A. Doyle When Michael Dames graduated from the U-M in 1988, he looked for a job that would make a difference in the lives of other people. “The Boy Scouts of America gives direction and focus. It brings young people in off the streets and gives them an ‘I can’ attitude,” says the…
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September 21, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services Automobile emissions in California pollute the air in Arizona’s Grand Canyon; pollution reaches the Great Lakes by air and rain from—someplace else? Today, says Garry D. Brewer, dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, “there is no ‘someplace else’… there is no ‘away’ to throw things.”…
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September 21, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services “Monitoring the Future,” the annual national survey of America’s secondary students conducted by the Institute for Social Research (ISR), has received an $18 million federal grant to continue and expand its work over the next five years. The grant is one of the largest in the history of…
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September 21, 1992
The high-tech tour that members of Team Michigan embarked on last Friday during the kickoff of the Campaign for Michigan gave them “a sense of what we are, a sense of what Michigan represents, a sense of what Team Michigan does,” said LS&A Dean Edie N. Goldenberg. Stops along the way included visits with: —Members…
