October 24, 1994
Nobel Laureate Joseph H. Taylor will deliver the third annual Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics at 4 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 27) in Rackham Amphitheater. He will speak on “Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity.” Taylor is the James McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. Of Taylor’s discovery of the first binary pulsar, for…
October 24, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Servcies Alumnus Benjamin S. Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, will deliver the first “Spotlight on African American Alumni” lecture at 7 p.m. Thurs. (Oct. 27) at Hale Auditorium. Carson, who has a bachelor’s degree from Yale and a medical degree from the U-M, will…
October 24, 1994
Is it a sculpture? A stage set? A costume? Or all three? Children can find out at “Shaping Space through Sculpture and Dance,” a Children’s Art Museum Program workshop that will be held 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Saturday. (Oct. 29) at the Museum of Art. Children will be able to watch Noguchi’s famous “spider dress” for…
October 24, 1994
By Sage Arron Two classic plays will be performed later this month by The Aquila Theatre Company of London at the Trueblood Theatre in the Frieze Building. Aristophanes’ Wasps will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday (Oct. 26), and Sophocles’ Philoctetes will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday (Oct. 27). A free symposium,…
October 24, 1994
University officials urged the state government to “begin reversing the downward trend in the real value of its appropriation” to the University. The state funding for the U-M Ann Arbor campus has “failed to keep up with inflation as measured by the Higher Education Price Index, so that the purchasing power of the appropriation has…
October 17, 1994
Harold James Lockett Harold James Lockett, formerly a clinical assistant professor at the Medical School, died here Oct. 6 at age 70. Lockett held a B.A. from Indiana University and received his M.D. from Meharry Medical College. He served his residency in adult psychiatry at the U-M and a residency in child psychiatry at the…
October 17, 1994
From Wayne State University A $580,000 neighborhood empowerment plan proposed by the state’s three largest research universities—the U-M, Michigan State University and Wayne State University (WSU)—and supported by the city of Detroit has been funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The unprecedented three-university collaboration, formed at the request of Detroit Mayor…
October 17, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle “Society sees dying as ominous and scary,” says Diane Trew, an intern at Hospice of Washtenaw. “But this is something people should talk about. Everybody asks me if it isn’t depressing working with people who are dying, but I’ve worked with victims of sexual assault and abused teens, too. Which is…
October 17, 1994
Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, will give the Tanner Lecture on Human Values at 4 p.m. Fri. (Oct. 21) in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Kahneman’s topic is “The Cognitive Psychology of Consequences and Moral Intuition.”…
October 17, 1994
Staff members who use the Benefits Enrollment Line (BEL) to select their benefits for 1995 will be sent a confirmation statement soon after they record their elections. Many staff members will be required to sign and return this statement by Nov. 11, 1994. The Benefits Office cannot complete the staff member’s enrollment without the signed…
