January 17, 1994
Students who enter LS&A in fall 1994 can choose from more than three dozen courses to meet the College’s new quantitative reasoning (QR) requirement. Members of the Task Force on the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement, who developed the proposal, and others spearheading undergraduate curricular reform are optimistic that in the future students will have an even…
January 17, 1994
Constructing Inequality: The Fabrication of a Hierarchy of Virtue among the Etoro by Raymond C. Kelly, professor of anthropology. Philosophers and social theorists since the Enlightenment have pondered how to define the principal locus for the production of inequality in human society. In Constructing Inequality , Kelly challenges existing theories of social inequality in egalitarian…
January 17, 1994
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services A new study of employee health costs confirms what has been only a reasonable hunch. If enough “high health risk” employees—smokers, heavy drinkers, and couch potatoes—take action to improve their health habits, a company’s health care costs can plummet. The Fitness Research Center began the 10-year study in…
January 17, 1994
Editor’s Note: The full text of the Flexible Benefits Advisory Committee’s report, as well as articles on focus groups and surveys and a series of questions and answers about flexible benefits, follows page 6. The Flexible Benefits Advisory Committee has issued a preliminary recommendation that the University adopt a flexible benefits program. In its report,…
January 17, 1994
The University signed licensing agreements with several area companies during FY93 to develop and market U-M research technology. These local firms are: Audiocomp, Inc. of Adrian for a digital audio compression system developed by David J. Anderson, David L. Neuhoff, Donghoon Lee and Omar A. Nemri from the College of Engineering. Dexter Research Center, Inc.…
January 17, 1994
Vladimir Matejovsky, business editor of Prague’s Mlada Fronta Dnes, the Czech Republic’s largest business daily, has been named the inaugural William Davidson Institute Fellow in Business Journalism of the Michigan Journalism Fellows (MJF) Program. Matejovsky is studying capital markets, corporate finance and international trade at the School of Business Administration beginning this term. He has…
January 17, 1994
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services Nearly one-half of all Americans between the ages of 15 and 54 have experienced an episode of psychiatric disorder at some time in their lives, and nearly 30 percent have had such an episode at some time in the last year, according to the first national survey to…
January 17, 1994
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services A multi-media tribute to 20th-century Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich will take place at the U-M Jan. 25–30, with the world-renowned Borodin String Quartet performing the complete Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle over five consecutive nights. The concerts are presented by the University Musical Society (UMS), in conjunction with a…
January 17, 1994
Bush named to journalism committee Joan T. Bush, lecturer in communication at U-M-Dearborn, has been named to the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame Committee. The Hall of Fame, established in 1952, “recognizes reporters, editors, publishers, owners, photographers, broadcasters and educators who have made outstanding contributions to the profession.” Wu wins Brumbaugh Award C.F. Jeff Wu,…
January 17, 1994
Form W-2 Wage and Tax Statements for 1993 will be mailed this week to University regular and part-time employees who received earnings in 1993. The format of the 1993 Form W-2 has been revised significantly to comply with Internal Revenue Service W-2 uniformity requirements, according to the Payroll Office. Federal and state taxable wages listed…
