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March 14, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services The U-M has been awarded $13.9 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue research, education and technology transfer programs at the Ultrafast Optical Science Center for an additional five years. Since its establishment in 1990, scientists at the NSF Science and Technology Center for Ultrafast Optical…
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March 7, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Perry J. Samson wants to bring the world of weather to the desk of every elementary and secondary school student in Michigan. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Samson and his students are developing a full-color interactive software package called Blue-Skies that will provide access to…
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March 7, 1994
Marilee Benore-Parsons, assistant professor of biology at U-M-Dearborn, has received the Susan B. Anthony Award from U-M-Dearborn’s Commission for Women. The annual award is given to a Dearborn faculty, staff member, alumnus or University supporter “who exemplifies the dedication, fortitude and involvement of Susan B. Anthony, a leader of the women’s suffrage movement.” Linda E.…
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March 7, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Walter P. Metzger, emeritus professor of history at Columbia University, will give the fourth annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom at 4 p.m. March 21 in Rackham Amphitheater. Metzger, author of Academic Freedom in the Age of the University, will discuss “A Walk Along the New Frontiers…
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March 7, 1994
Eight candidates are running for three seats on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA). The election will be held at the March 21 Senate Assembly meeting. Three candidates will be elected to serve three-year terms beginning May 1, succeeding John Birge, George Cameron and Ronald Lomax. The candidates and their “campaign statements” are:…
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March 7, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank A University reading of David Mamet’s provocative play Oleanna will be the starting point of the next Rackham Conversation on Academic Priorities program titled “Learning from Oleanna.” Leigh A. Woods, associate professor of theater, and Ceci Grinwald, a junior in the Department of Theatre, will perform a rehearsed reading of Oleanna…
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March 7, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet will deliver the annual University Wallenberg Lecture and meet with students and faculty during a campus visit April 21–23. The Nobel Peace Prize winner and Buddhist leader will address issues of human rights, freedom and peace in a lecture at 7:30 p.m.…
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March 7, 1994
The 15th Annual Conference on the Holocaust, March 12–19, will address modes of communicating the experience and memory of the Holocaust intergenerationally. Planned by students, faculty, members of the Ann Arbor community and Hillel Foundation, the conference will include a 24-hour vigil on the Diag; lectures, discussions and films; and the dedication of the Holocaust…
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March 7, 1994
President James J. Duderstadt will formally accept the Holocaust Memorial statue for the U-M at a dedication ceremony beginning at 3 p.m. Sunday (March 13) in Rackham Auditorium. The program at Rackham includes musical selections performed by Marilyn Krimm and choir, and a keynote speech by Todd Endelman, the William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish…
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March 7, 1994
The recently discovered and restored 1948 film Undzere Kinder (Our Children), the last Yiddish feature film made in Poland, will be shown at 7 p.m. Sunday (March 13) at the Natural Science Building Auditorium, followed by a panel discussion. “Suppressed by the post-war Polish Communist government as ‘pro-Zionist’ and lost for over 30 years, Our…
