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September 6, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank For Rosemary Kuderick, the challenge of the chase rivals the thrills of capturing and releasing her quarry. Known by her grateful fans as “Bat Lady,” Kuderick rescues faculty, staff and students from encounters with ants and cockroaches, bees and wasps, squirrels and raccoons—and, of course, bats. Kuderick is a pest management…
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September 6, 1994
A number of campus units moved to new locations during the spring and summer. Here’s a list of the units and their addresses: Wolverine Tower, corner of South State and Eisenhower Benefits Office, Room G405 1278 Division of Research Development and Administration, first floor 1274 Financial Aid Systems Team, Room 1084 1284 Financial Analysis and…
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September 6, 1994
To provide new U-M photo identification cards to faculty, staff and students as efficiently as possible, the Department of Public Safety (DPS) is in the process of scheduling building and departmental sessions during the fall and winter terms. Faculty and staff have been responding in extraordinary numbers to an Aug. 15 Record announcement that all…
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September 6, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Consider the dilemma of the scientist who must choose between hundreds of potential research subjects—all desperate to participate in a study testing a promising new treatment for their terminal cancer. What criteria determines who is accepted? Who decides? Or the scientist who discovers that one of her now-healthy…
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June 6, 1994
The appointment of Charlie Nelms, chancellor of Indiana University East, as chancellor of the U-M-Flint campus and the appointment of Jeffrey Sean Lehman as dean of the Law School on the Ann Arbor campus were approved by the Regents at their May meeting. Nelms will become chancellor effective Aug. 1. Lehman’s appointment is effective July…
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June 6, 1994
Philosophy Prof. Lawrence Sklar will become the first holder of the James B. and Grace J. Nelson Professorship of Philosophy. His appointment, effective Sept. 1, was approved by the Regents at their May meeting. “A person of outstanding reputation for learning and teaching ability in philosophy is being appointed to the Nelson Professorship,” said LS&A…
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June 6, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Self awareness, vision, purpose, commitment and making a contribution are the keys to becoming a confident, empowered person, according to Oscar L. Britton. In his keynote speech at the Workplace of the ’90s, Britton urged the more than 660 participants attending the May 24 program at the Michigan League to rely…
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June 6, 1994
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services As workloads have increased throughout the ’90s, so has the level of job stress. Kristen Storey, a staff development assistant at Human Resource Development, and Minda Hart, the owner of Earth Wisdom Music in Ann Arbor, offered a workshop on conventional and unconventional stress reduction strategies. The Michigan…
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June 6, 1994
More than 200 staff were nominated by peers, faculty and students for Staff Recognition Awards presented for the first time at the Workplace of the ’90s Conference May 24–25. The winners are: Katrina Ward Hope, basic science administrator in biological chemistry at the Medical School, who received the Distinguished Service Award; Leah J. Long, administrative…
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June 6, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services University astronomers have discovered a line of clouds or “knots” of gas, strung out like pearls on a string, that extends more than halfway across the Crab Nebula. Stephen S. Lawrence, graduate student in astronomy, presented an image and spectra of the knots during a news conference last…
