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April 8, 1998
The University Record, April 8, 1998 By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Service The tendency to “catastrophize” about bad events, projecting them across many realms of life, foreshadows an untimely death decades later. That is one of the findings of a U-M analysis exploring the link between mortality and the way a person habitually explains…
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April 8, 1998
The University Record, April 8, 1998 By Travis Paddock News and Information Services U-M undergraduates and Detroit residents are teaming up to expand youth service programs. They will become part of Volunteer Detroit!, directed by the Michigan Neighborhood AmeriCorps Program (MNAP) and the Michigan Neighborhood Partnership (MNP). The Partnership has received a Skillman Foundation award…
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April 8, 1998
The University Record, April 8, 1998 By James Matthew Wilson News and Information Services The Clements Library is well known for its archive of American historical manuscripts. It holds more than one-half million letters and documents that have survived, some for centuries, some for decades, by luck or by pluck. Until now, however, these collections…
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April 1, 1998
The University Record, April 1, 1998 By Paula Saha Fredricks Ross Jennifer Fredricks, a fourth-year graduate student in the combined program in education and psychology, and Sarah Ross, third-year graduate student in physiology, were named co-recipients of the first Susan Lipschutz Award for Woman Graduate Students at an Afterglow reception on March 27 following Ursula…
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April 1, 1998
The University Record, April 1, 1998 By Janet Nellis Mendler News and Information Services A riverfront village, above, is one of the six designs presented to Lansing City Council by the 23 students in the Lansing/Grand River Case Study studio course taught by Robert Beckley, professor of architecture in the College of Architecture and Urban…
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April 1, 1998
The University Record, April 1, 1998 By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services One of the collection of fakes at the Clements Library shows how forgers practiced their ‘art.’ Photo courtesy Clements Library April Fool! Ninety years ago, at least one Michigander was chuckling to himself and saying “April Fool!” But not for long. The…
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April 1, 1998
The University Record, April 1, 1998 ‘Dr. Doolittle’s Bloomin’ Zoo’ greeted young and old alike at last week’s Flower and Garden Show sponsored by the Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Visitors to the zoo crossed a babbling brook and entered a garden fantasy of ivy topiary figures, a swinging bunny and a scavenger hunt for perennials with…
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April 1, 1998
The University Record, April 1, 1998 Football fans at Michigan Stadium will be looking at instant replays on a new scoreboard this fall and listening to announcers over an enhanced sound system. The Regents have approved an expenditure of $7.9 million for the scoreboards and a video production facility that will be housed in Crisler…
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April 1, 1998
The University Record, April 1, 1998 From the Institute for Research on Women and Gender The Institute for Research on Women and Gender has awarded 15 grants for scholarly activities focusing on women and gender. The funding will support research in the Museum of Anthropology, six schools and colleges–LS&A, Social Work, Education, Public Health, Medicine…
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April 1, 1998
The University Record, April 1, 1998 By Janis Giannini and Peggy Daub University Library Ed Weber has cared for the Labadie Collection, the University’s archive of social protest literature, since 1964. He is noted for his experience as a reference librarian and his encyclopedic general knowledge. Photo by Bob Kalmbach “Money brought me here,” says…
