-
January 14, 1998
The University Record, January 14, 1998 By Wono LeeNews and Information Services The University’s research expenditures increased by 3.9 percent in 1996-97, reaching another record total of $458,478,301. “By any common set of criteria–whether research expenditures, academic publications, or awards and fellowships per faculty member, for example–the U-M continues to rank among the top in…
-
January 14, 1998
The University Record, January 14, 1998 By Deborah GilbertNews and Information Services The University has launched a multidisciplinary Health Services Research Initiative that will provide support to health services researchers throughout the University. John R.C. Wheeler, professor of health management and policy, School of Public Health, will direct the initiative. Wheeler is an internationally recognized…
-
January 14, 1998
The University Record, January 14, 1998 Kelbaugh By Jane R. Elgass Douglas S. Kelbaugh, professor of architecture and urban design at the University of Washington since 1985, will be recommended as dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning following an international search. If approved by the Regents at their Jan. 15-16 meeting, his…
-
January 14, 1998
The University Record, January 14, 1998 Martin Luther King commemoration events calendar By Bernie DeGroatNews and Information Services The University will celebrate Martin Luther King Day (Jan. 19) with dozens of events beginning this week and running throughout January. The MLK Symposium officially kicks off this Saturday (Jan. 17) with children’s (ages 10 and older)…
-
December 17, 1997
By Travis Paddock News and Information Services Rose “As soon as the judges announced the recipients, I started crying . . . it was just such a relief.” On Dec. 6, LS&A senior Fiona Rose became the 24th U-M student to receive a Rhodes Scholarship. The announcement followed the infamous Rhodes regional interviews, during which…
-
December 17, 1997
By Patricia S. Whitesell Can you help locate this bookcase? This one and others like it once held the personal library of the University’s first president, Henry P. Tappan. Photo courtesy Bentley Historical Library and Michigan Alumnus magazine Did you know that Henry P. Tappan, first president of the University, had an extensive personal library…
-
December 17, 1997
By Mary Jo Frank University Relations Despite the increasing number of women entering the workforce, the workplace is changing women rather than women changing the workplace, according to Robert Pasick, psychologist and author of Awakening from the Deep Sleep, Men in Therapy and What Every Man Needs to Know. At the Commission for Women’s November…
-
December 17, 1997
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services Matt Healy (left), an industrial and operations engineering student, and Kristin Tudball, a graphic design major in the School of Art and Design, display the raw materials and finished product–notebooks that will be for sale by EnAct Jan. 5–9 in the Michigan Union. Photo by Bob Kalmbach From…
-
December 17, 1997
Jane G. Likert Jane Gibson Likert died Nov. 29 at age 95 at her home in Hawaii. She and her husband, Rensis Likert, moved to Honolulu in 1969 after his retirement as director of the Institute for Social Research. Their ties to Ann Arbor and the University were many and strong, however, and continued throughout…
-
December 17, 1997
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Seven years from now when the world’s most powerful particle accelerator begins smashing protons together in an underground tunnel near Geneva, Switzerland, scientists will be able to “see” the collisions thanks to a sensitive particle detector built in p art by U-M physicists. Officials from Europe and the…
