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December 6, 1993
Marshall H. Becker Marshall H. Becker, professor of health behavior and health education at the School of Public Health, died of cancer here on Nov. 26. He was 53. Becker, who also was professor of health behavior at the Medical School, was internationally renowned for his research on patient compliance and psychosocial factors in health…
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December 6, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass The addition of three new senior faculty members to the Department of Statistics this fall will further strengthen its teaching and research in applied statistics, and create new opportunities for interdisciplinary work with other U-M units. The new faculty members are Roderick J.A. Little, professor of statistics, and Vijayan N. Nair…
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November 22, 1993
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services The National Center for Pollution Prevention at the U-M has received an AT&T Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship to advance the Center’s education and research activities in the emerging field of industrial ecology. The $50,000 fellowship, one of six awarded nationally, builds upon an existing research collaboration between AT&T…
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November 22, 1993
Nearly 23 percent of the students on the Ann Arbor campus this year are students of color, another all-time high. Fall enrollment figures show that the number of minority students has grown to 7,578, or 22.8 percent of the student body, up from last year’s number of 7,097, or 21.4 percent. Five years ago there…
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November 22, 1993
Editor’s Note: The Regents took the following actions at their November meeting. Bell tower design begins The Regents authorized the Univer-sity to begin the design of a bell tower for North Campus. They named Moore/Andersson Architects in conjunction with Hobbs & Black Associates Inc., as the design architect to do “a feasibility study that will…
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November 22, 1993
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services Echoing folk wisdom, pop psychology urges us not to cry over spilled milk because regret cripples us. “That was then; this is now,” we are told. But Janet Landman, a U-M psychologist, argues in her new book, Regret: The Persistence of the Possible (Oxford University Press, 1993), that…
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November 22, 1993
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services “American Culture or America the Multicultural?” will be the theme of this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances Jan. 17. Events being planned by the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium Planning Committee include panel discussions on social justice, educational equity, the civil rights movement, and the…
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November 22, 1993
Elizabeth Douvan, the Catharine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies, has been named the 1994 Henry Russel Lecturer. The annual lectureship is the highest honor the University gives to senior faculty members. Douvan was nominated for the honor by the U-M Research Club and her appointment was confirmed by the Regents at their…
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November 22, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Harris v. Forklift Systems Inc. sexual harassment case reaffirms the position taken by the University and many others that sexually abusive, hostile work environments are illegal and constitute sexual harassment. General Counsel Elsa K. Cole says the U-M’s Faculty/Staff Sexual Harassment Policy, in…
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November 22, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Armed with shiny shovels and a pile of ceremonial sand, University faculty, Regents and administrators “officially” broke ground for three Central Campus building projects last Friday afternoon. More than 150 members of the University community attended the groundbreaking ceremonies held under a tent on the Diag, which highlighted the East Engineering…
