May 9, 1994
A $14,175,463 construction contract for the proposed renovation of the C.C. Little Building was approved by the Regents at their April meeting. The low bidder is Ellis-Don Michigan Inc. of Southfield. The renovation project is principally infrastructure upgrading and includes restoration of the exterior and replacement of the major mechanical and electrical systems. The project’s…
May 9, 1994
Bradford wins career development award Carol Rossier Bradford, associate professor of otorhinolaryngology, has won a Clinical Research Career Development Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Recipients are young, full-time faculty members who have completed significant post-doctoral research and are dedicated to careers in clinical oncology research. Bradford will receive an annual grant of…
May 9, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle “Organizations don’t do anything—people do,” asserted Farris W. Womack, vice president and chief financial officer, as he addressed team leaders and facilitators at the first M-Quality Forum for Business and Finance Units. “There is not another organization on campus doing what we are doing in pushing for betterment of this organization…
May 9, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle When the hate speech/free speech debate surged over the computer networks a few weeks ago, it prompted many in the University community to think about communication in an electronic environment. Electronic communication allows thought expression without voice or face recognition and eliminates preconceptions about status based on age, physical characteristics or…
May 9, 1994
The University Musical Society (UMS) has been awarded a $130,086 grant to bring to Ann Arbor and southeastern Michigan an array of performances and events honoring the late Martha Graham. The grant was awarded by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund through its Art Partners Program, which is administered by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters…
May 9, 1994
The Ann Arbor Summer Festival will enter its second decade in mid-June, celebrating the performing arts with three weeks of entertainment, food and fun for all. The Festival, which will run June 18–July 10, incorporates two concurrent activities: A series of diverse ticketed performances by nationally and internationally known artists in the Power Center for…
May 9, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle The Confidential Research Information Act, which adds specific exemptions from disclosing certain kinds of information requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), was signed into law in April by Gov. John Engler. “The passage of this act is an important event for the University of Michigan,” says Homer A. Neal,…
May 9, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle Jill Finkbeiner is a sixth grader in Saline Middle School who loves math, plays the violin and is an A student. She also wields a pretty mean screwdriver. Jill is one of the many eight- to 15-year-old children of University faculty and staff members who spent April 28 on campus seeing…
May 9, 1994
By Margo Schneidman Medical Center Public Relaitons Committed to combating rising health care costs as well as declining coverage, Judith Feder, chief health policy analyst with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, took to the podium here last month to tout the benefits of President Clinton’s health care reform plan to provide universal…
May 9, 1994
Faculty, staff, students and friends of the School of Information and Library Studies (SILS) will meet at 4:30 p.m. May 20 at the Alumni Center Building to honor and celebrate the life of the late Kenneth E. Vance, professor emeritus and former assistant dean of SILS. The program will include remarks by some of Vance’s…
