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November 22, 1993
Elaine K. Didier, director of information resources at the School of Business Administration and director of the Kresge Business Administration Library, has been appointed associate dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Her appointment, effective Dec. 1, was approved by the Regents at their November meeting. “I am delighted that Elaine Didier…
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November 22, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank The faculty’s first attempt to evaluate a high level administrative office went smoothly, according to faculty members who conducted the review and to John H. D’Arms, whose Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs was evaluated. Reporting to Senate Assembly Nov. 15, Peter G. Hinman, professor of mathematics and a…
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November 22, 1993
By Rebecca A. Doyle Trust is a word that comes up often when you talk to Brenda Herman about quality management and the approach the Housing Division has used. Herman, who is an administrative associate for residence operations, saw personal leadership and trustworthiness as very important to quality management and, with several other employees from…
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November 15, 1993
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services Although it has been 45 years since the state of Palestine existed, novelist Anton Shammas believes it is possible for Palestinians to go “home.” Shammas, speaking Nov. 5 at the Institute for the Humanities conference on “Remapping Identities: Colonial and Post-Colonial Societies,” addressed the meaning of geography and…
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November 15, 1993
The University again has surpassed its United Way campaign goal. Peter Pellerito, the University’s campaign adviser, says that thanks to the “wonderful work of 375 volunteers,” $951,560 were raised. This year’s goal of $950,000 represented a 5.5 percent increase over last year’s. Washtenaw United Way and several human service agencies had asked the University to…
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November 15, 1993
On Dec. 1, some areas in Southeast Michigan, including the U-M-Flint campus, will begin to use a new area code. The 810 area code will be in effect for most of Genesee, Lapeer, Sanilac, St. Clair, Oakland and Macomb counties, and for portions of Wash-tenaw, Livingston, Shiawassee, Saginaw and Wayne counties. Areas that have been…
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November 15, 1993
Wife beating in Karnataka topic of CSSEAS brown bag “Wife Beating and Its Implications for Caloric Allocations to Children: A Case Study of a Potter Community in Rural Karnataka” is the topic of a brown-bag presentation by Vijayendra Rao, population studies and economics, at noon Fri. (Nov. 19) in the Lane Hall Commons Room. The…
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November 15, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services After five and one-half days of battling electrical system problems, 110-degree temperatures, plagues of locusts, and an intestinal virus that sent several students to hospitals and clinics, the U-M solar car team crossed the World Solar Challenge finish line in Adelaide last Friday at 1:17 p.m. Maize &…
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November 15, 1993
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services The Institute for Social Research (ISR) has received a grant of nearly $2 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to continue ISR’s National Drug Abuse Treatment System Survey through 1994. The survey, which evaluates the operations of a national sample of 550 drug treatment units, was…
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November 15, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass The University and community will receive “an extraordinary gift of education and culture” this week during the residency of the Stratford Theatre Festival company. The group’s one-week stay here is the result of a luncheon conversation Kenneth C. Fischer had two and one-half years ago with Anne Charles, the Canadian general…
