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October 17, 1994
Just over midway through its allotted time, the Campaign for Michigan has garnered $680 million—68 percent of its $1 billion goal. The Campaign was announced in 1990 and is scheduled to conclude in 1997. These figures were announced to a group of contributors at a Campaign celebration event held Sept. 23. Of the $1 billion…
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October 17, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services On the fourth day of every August for the past 50 years, Miep Gies has closed her curtains and refused to answer the doorbell or telephone at her Amsterdam home. It was on that day in 1944 that she last saw Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl whose…
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October 17, 1994
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services A $4 million federal grant, along with an additional $4.5 million from the U-M and other sponsors, will enable the University to play a major role in the national effort to develop new technologies and patterns of use for digital libraries—storehouses of information available through the Internet. Funding…
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October 17, 1994
The University’s 20 percent plan—in which 20 percent of energy savings for the year are returned to the schools and colleges who cut their energy costs—resulted in total savings of $1,387,435 in fiscal year 1994. “Congratulations are in order,” says David W. Anderson, coordinator of energy management. Of the total saved, $277,487 will be distributed…
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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…
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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…
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October 10, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services Plans for the University’s Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium in January 1995 are in full swing. The symposium features MLK Memorial Lecturer Benjamin L. Hooks, former executive director of the NAACP. Hooks, who served as head of the world’s largest and oldest civil rights organization…
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October 10, 1994
M-Link, the collaborative program between U-M-Flint and Mott Community College (MCC), has received $54,000 in renewal funding from the Office of Minority Equity of the Michigan Department of Education through its College/University Partnership Program. M-Link, managed by Flint Admissions Director David James and Coordinator Kendall West, actively recruits qualified underrepresented minority students at MCC, who…
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October 10, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services M.R.C. Greenwood, associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, spent a day here last week to discuss the new context of science in an era of limited resources and shifting priorities. “Scientists and policy-makers face the challenge of articulating the relationship…
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October 10, 1994
Responding to Greek Activities Review Panel (GARP) sanctions against the fraternity, members of the Alpha chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon have voted to return the chapter’s charter to its national organization. The former Sig Eps plan to continue living at the house as rent-paying tenants, but will no longer function as a fraternity, according to…
