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November 22, 1993
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services The U-M is among some 100 colleges and universities nationwide selected from a field of 1,100 to participate in the initial phase of a new federal direct student loan program, the U.S. Department of Education announced Nov. 15. Under direct lending, U-M students eligible for federal loans will…
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November 22, 1993
A total eclipse of the moon will be visible throughout North America starting just before midnight on Nov. 28, according to U-M astronomer Richard G. Teske. “Lunar eclipses occur during the time of full moon when the sun, Earth and moon all line up with the moon behind Earth, hidden within the shadow cast by…
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November 22, 1993
The Regents have removed the restriction on the University’s equity investments in companies operating in South Africa. The restriction in support of anti-apartheid efforts, in place since 1983, was removed at their November meeting. The Board adopted a resolution, noting, among other things: “Nelson Mandela, the leader of the African National Congress, in an address…
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November 22, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass By the end of this month, more than 1,900 members of the University community will have provided input on issues related to a flexible benefits plan through participation in 195 focus group sessions that began in September and were held on various Ann Arbor campuses, at the Medical Center, and at…
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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…
