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April 25, 1994
2 receive Rockefeller Fellowships Two U-M undergraduates have received Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships, awarded to minority students who plan to enter the teaching profession. Juniors Candace R. Boone and Felicia L. Tripp are among 25 students nationwide to win the Fellowships. Each will receive stipends of up to $2,500 for teaching-related research this summer. Upon…
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April 25, 1994
The Flexible Benefits Advisory Committee has submitted its final recommendation to the Executive Officers for their consideration. The Committee recommends that, with some modifications, its original plan for flexible benefits be “the foundation for a University plan to be designed and evaluated for implementation in January 1996.” Among other recommendations, the Committee says that the…
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April 25, 1994
Consolidation of the School of Public Health faculty into five core departments—Biostatistics; Environmental and Industrial Health; Epidemiology; Health Behavior and Health Education; and Health Management and Policy—was approved by the Regents at their April meeting.. “The Review Committee of the School of Public Health has completed its study of the mission and functions of the…
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April 18, 1994
Judith Feder, chief health policy analyst with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will speak about the Clinton health care reform plan at noon April 26 in Heath Auditorium, School of Public Health. Feder’s talk is part of the University’s FORUM on Health Policy Reform, a two-year series of educational events tracking…
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April 18, 1994
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services The University is launching a bold initiative that it hopes will foster the professional success of women faculty, staff and students. The initiative, the “Michigan Agenda for Women: Leadership for a New Century,” sets the year 2000 as a target date for becoming “the leader among American universities…
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April 18, 1994
Michigan Radio’s “Incredible Shrinking Week” fund-raising effort was successful again this year, cutting three days of on-air fundraising from the station’s programming. A new high of $124,000 was raised, surpassing the 1992 record of $118,000. The number of listeners who mailed contributions or phoned in pledges came to 2,002, including 452 first-time donors. The Incredible…
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April 18, 1994
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services As the University enters the 21st century a few years early, “we see a shift from the preservation and transformation of knowledge, to the creation of knowledge itself,” in an age characterized by fiber optic highways of information unrestricted by time, space and reality, says President James J.…
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April 18, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Chester Posby found guilty but mentally ill A Washtenaw County Circuit Court jury found Chester L. Posby, 70, guilty but mentally ill of first degree murder charges April 12 for the June 1992 shooting death of John L. Kemink, professor of otorhinolaryngology, in a U-M Hospitals examining room. Posby, a retired…
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April 18, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Brian P. Coppola, lecturer in chemistry and winner of the 1994 Golden Apple Award for outstanding teaching, urged an audience of several hundred enthusiastic undergraduates in Rackham Auditorium last Wednesday evening to go out and tell somebody about the dog. The image of a dog, hidden in a…
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April 18, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Education and changing the way cheating cases are investigated and adjudicated are the best ways to discourage students from cheating, according to an LS&A faculty-student committee. Presenting the LS&A Joint Faculty-Student Policy Committee’s report at last Monday’s LS&A faculty meeting, David Schoem, committee chair, asked the faculty for feedback on its…
