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April 4, 1994
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services Recent immigration is leading California to “export” poverty-level, low-skilled residents to Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, according to a U-M study presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. “A chain reaction seems to be occurring between the arrival of low-skilled immigrants to Los Angeles…
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April 4, 1994
By Marion T. Marzolf, professor of communication On January 14, Dean Edie Goldenberg called a meeting of the faculty of the Department of Communication. We were all urged to attend. She announced that our chair of two years, Neil Malamuth, currently on leave, would leave Michigan. (We later learned that he would return to his…
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April 4, 1994
Dean Edie N. Goldenberg’s announced plan to suspend faculty self-governance for the Department of Communication should alarm faculty members across the campus. The Dean has not yet provided a written explanation of the steps she intends to take, the process by which she arrived at her plan of action, the rationale for the steps nor…
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April 4, 1994
By Jane R. Elgass Results of a telephone survey on the proposed flexible benefits program are now being reviewed by the Flexible Benefits Advisory Committee, which hopes to make a final recommendation to the Executive Officers this month. “The telephone survey was designed to collect broad-based input from across the University on the study of…
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April 4, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle Two undergraduate students and two faculty members will be honored at the Michigan Association of Governing Boards of State Universities’ (MAGB) 13th annual Higher Education Awards Convocation Wednesday (April 6) in Lansing. Katherine M. Metres, a senior in the LS&A Honors Program, “has contributed to the life of this campus in…
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April 4, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services A U-M biochemist may have discovered why women dental assistants who are exposed to high levels of a common anesthetic called nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, have more trouble getting pregnant than women in other occupations. According to Rowena G. Matthews, professor of biological chemistry and research scientist…
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April 4, 1994
Research, ethics topic of presentation David H. Smith, director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University, will discuss “Research and the Teaching of Ethics” at 3:15 p.m. today (April 4) in Rackham Amphitheater. The lecture, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, will be followed…
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April 4, 1994
The Copernicus Endowment Committee will join with the Department of Aerospace Engineering this Friday (April 8) to inaugurate the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building by dedicating the 1994 Copernicus Lecture to the department’s founder, Felix Pawlowski. Wlodzimierz Zawadzki, an authority in the field of semi-conductor physics, who also is a poet, novelist and television personality in Warsaw,…
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April 4, 1994
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services Faculty, staff and students will join President James J. Duderstadt and six deans Friday (April 8) on North Campus to celebrate groundbreaking for a core facility that will link the disciplines of architecture and urban planning, art, engineering and music, and information resources. The public groundbreaking ceremony for…
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April 4, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Researchers at the U-M, the Univer-sity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Texas, Austin, have been awarded $4.5 million to establish a new Center for Optoelectronics Science and Technology (COST). The center will be one of four funded by the federal Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). “These…
