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February 15, 1993
Requiring LS&A students to take a good quantitative reasoning course should make things better, not harder, for students who don’t think quantitatively. At least that is the intent, Michael M. Martin, associate dean for undergraduate education, told his colleagues at LS&A’s faculty meeting last Monday. Unfortunately some see a quantitative reasoning requirement as merely a…
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February 15, 1993
Faculty and students may be returning to class the Tuesday—rather than the traditional Thursday—after Labor Day in 1994, Dean Edie N. Goldenberg told LS&A faculty members last Monday. Goldenberg added she believes a faculty and staff committee should look at the academic calendar and a number of issues related to it, including a concern among…
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February 15, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass The University’s graduate and undergraduate programs on the Ann Arbor campus have been ranked third among the nation’s “leading universities” in the latest (1993) edition of The Gourman Report. The U-M trails Princeton and Harvard for its undergraduate programs and Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley, for its graduate programs.…
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February 15, 1993
By Rebecca A. Doyle What began more than 10 years ago as a career-oriented conference primarily for African American women at the U-M has evolved in a decade to cover such diverse topics as talking about sexual health with your children, institutional discrimination policies, cancer prevention, personal finances and success strategies for men of color.…
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February 15, 1993
An exhibition of photographs of Holocaust memorials and public sculptures in Europe, Israel and the United States will be held in conjunction with the Wallenberg Lecture. The exhibition, “In Fitting Memory: Perspectives on an Evolving Tradition of Holocaust Memorials,” will be on display in the Slusser Gallery in the Art and Architecture Building Feb. 17–26.…
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February 15, 1993
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services James Ingo Freed, the architect who designed the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum now under construction in Washington, D.C., will deliver the annual Raoul Wallenberg Lecture sponsored by the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at 8 p.m. Thurs. (Feb. 18) in Rackham Amphitheater. The free, public lecture…
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February 15, 1993
Herbert J. Wilson, president of the James and Lynelle Holden Fund of Troy, has announced a gift of $1 million to the University of Michigan. The gift will support laboratories for research conducted by the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases. The new James and Lynelle Holden Neonatal Research Laboratories will be located in the…
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February 15, 1993
Jack Weidenbach, director of athletics since 1991, will retire from his post Aug. 31. A faculty-staff-student-alumni search committee, headed by Vice President Farris W. Womack, will begin a national search for his successor. “During the past five years,” Weidenbach said, “I have tremendously enjoyed working with student athletes, both women and men, and their coaches.…
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February 15, 1993
The fellows were drawn to careers in science in different ways, and now are facing different challenges as female researchers. Sophia Bryant’s exposure to research began early in life when her father, a surgeon, took her to his laboratory to show her slides of blood cells. As a teenager working in a hematology laboratory during…
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February 15, 1993
By Sharon Drobny Comprehensive Cancer Center Five junior investigators have joined the new Cancer Biology Training Program of the Comprehensive Cancer Center, funded by a $1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The U-M program is one of 10 nationwide funded this year, and involves 33 faculty members from 11 departments. Jeffery M.…
