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February 7, 1994
F. Thomas Juster, research scientist in the Institute for Social Research’s Survey Research Center and professor of economics, will present the University Senior Research Scientist Lecture at 4 p.m. Feb. 14 in Rackham Amphitheater. He will discuss “Microdata, Economic Theory, and the Production of Scientific Knowledge: Recent Innovations in Measurement Strategies and Some Speculations about…
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February 7, 1994
The Medical Center has been named one of the nation’s top 10 academic medical centers, according to a study released by Baltimore-based HCIA Inc., a leading health care information company, and Mercer Management Consulting. In another study, 87 U-M physicians are included in the 1993–94 edition of The Best Doctors in America, some for more…
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February 7, 1994
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services U-M researcher Harold W. Stevenson and colleagues have been awarded a $1,068,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support a three-year comparative study of teaching and learning in the United States, Germany and Japan. The study will involve intensive case studies of kindergarten through 11th-grade students…
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February 7, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Jean L. Loup will chair the nine-member Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA) beginning May 1. SACUA Chair Henry C. Griffin will serve as vice chair. Loup, University librarian and assistant to the dean of the University Library, and Griffin, professor of chemistry, were elected to one-year terms at the…
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February 7, 1994
Sibley W. Hoobler Sibley W. Hoobler, professor emeritus of internal medicine, died Jan. 25 of a heart attack in Tucson, Ariz., while vacationing with his wife Catherine. He was 82. Internationally recognized for his pioneering work in high blood pressure research and patient care, he retired from the U-M in 1976 and became professor of…
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February 7, 1994
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services Three campus units are collaborating on a futuristic building project that will require very little, if any, bricks, mortar or steel. Rather, it will use electronic tools to build an organized network of information resources ranging from book-length, on-line texts to digital slide collections, to multimedia tools. The…
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February 7, 1994
Igor Bogdanov, president of the International Academy of Business and Banking in Togliatti, Russia, recently sent a message to Stephen F. Hallam, dean of U-M-Flint’s School of Management, to thank the faculty for a gift of more than 300 textbooks. The city of Flint and Togliatti, Russia’s automotive capitol, have a long-standing relationship. Each has…
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February 7, 1994
Robert C. Hughes, director of the Housing Division since 1978, has been named executive director of development and external relations for student affairs, effective Feb. 1. In announcing Hughes’ appointment last week, Vice President for Student Affairs Maureen A. Hartford said she is “very pleased to have Bob Hughes moving to this new post. We…
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February 7, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank New student orientation today goes far beyond the traditional three-day campus visit during the summer. It’s an ongoing process of keeping in touch, beginning at the time the student is admitted and continuing through the student’s first term on campus, says Pamela T. Horne, director of orientation and the Campus Information…
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February 7, 1994
The University’s Chicano History Week, Feb. 6–12, commemorates the life of human rights leader Cesar Chavez with events dedicated to his memory. “We feel it is important to reflect on his life, what his death means for many people, and to publicly recognize the passage of a man who shaped history—labor history, Chicano history and…
