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…
December 17, 1997
From the Athletic Department Reese Student-athlete Jefferey L. Reese collapsed Dec. 9 while working out in preparation for a wrestling match with Michigan State University and was pronounced dead at University Hospital. Reese, of Wellsburg, New York, was a junior in the Division of Kinesiology, majoring in physical education teaching. “In respect to the Reese…
December 17, 1997
By Adam Marcus College of Engineering Contrary to the conventional wisdom, new computer modeling from the University suggests that global warming might not be a product of human activity. Ironically, argues Joyce Penner, professor of atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences, carbon and sulfur emissions can have the reverse effect, serving to cool down the planet.…
December 17, 1997
The University Record, December 17, 1997 By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services A new 300-site survey of borehole temperatures spanning four continents and five centuries has confirmed what most scientists already believe—the Earth is getting warmer and the rate of warming has been accelerating rapidly since 1900. “In terms of climate change, the 20th…
December 17, 1997
By Rebecca A. Doyle More vehicle thefts reported Department of Public Safety (DPS) Capt. James Smiley reports that DPS officers, working with the Michigan State Police Auto Theft Team and the Detroit Police Department, have recovered two more automobiles that were reported stolen from University parking facilities. Eight thefts of vehicles from University parking areas…
December 17, 1997
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services Marcia Governale with one of the degus used in the experiments. Photo by Bob Kalmbach Working with an unusual colony of South American rodents called degus (day-goos), U-M researchers have discovered striking sex differences in how quickly the creatures reset their biological clocks in response to changes in…
December 10, 1997
The University Record, December 10, 1997 From the Office of University Relations Aggressively defending its use of race in making admissions decisions, on Dec. 3 the University filed with the federal court in Detroit its response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Individual Rights (CIR) challenging the University’s undergraduate admissions practices. CIR sued…
December 10, 1997
The University Record, December 10, 1997 Students began waiting in line at 6 a.m. Dec. 2 for ticket vouchers to the 84th Rose Bowl on Jan. 1. The line stretched around Yost Arena for two days last week. Photo by Bob Kalmbach
