May 10, 1993
At their May meeting the Regents approved the recommendations for promotion and/or tenure of 130 faculty members on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses, effective next academic year. Of the total, 118 are at the Ann Arbor campus, eight at the U-M-Dearborn and four at the U-M-Flint. At the Ann Arbor campus From professor…
May 10, 1993
By Ryan Solomon News and Information Services The hot, steamy dog days of summer may again skip Michigan this year. A U-M atmospheric scientist predicts that this summer’s weather may not be much different from last summer’s cool, wet weather. Empirical evidence collected by Peter Sousounis suggests there is a 55 percent to 60 percent…
May 10, 1993
Richard A. Flinn Richard A. Flinn, professor emeritus of materials and metallurgical engineering, died April 29 in Seattle. He was 76 years old. Flinn joined the faculty in 1951 and during his U-M career he developed an international reputation for research on process and physical metallurgy, steelmaking, cast metals, solidification and failure analysis. He retired…
May 10, 1993
Eight U-M faculty members recently were elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The fellows are elected in recognition of their distinguished contributions to science, scholarship, public affairs and the arts. Newly elected members are: —President James J. Duderstadt, professor of nuclear engineering. —Bruce W. Frier, professor of classics and of law.…
May 10, 1993
U-M-Dearborn and Macomb Community College (MCC) have established a program that will allow students with associate’s degrees from MCC to transfer credits toward a bachelor’s degree program offered at Dearborn. In this “2+2” articulation program with Dearborn’s College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters, students who have earned associate’s degrees at MCC may transfer up to…
May 10, 1993
June E. Osborn, dean of the School of Public Health, announced last Monday that she intended to resign, after a special review committee recommended that the School’s Department of Population Planning and International Health (PPIH) not be closed. The review committee’s recommendation to continue the department was contrary to the dean’s and the School’s Executive…
May 10, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank —Flexible benefit plans; —Projected health cost increases associated with an aging faculty; —M-CARE’s role in controlling the University’s employee benefit costs. Those were a few of the issues raised at the April 22 meeting of the U-M Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) by a trio of benefits…
May 10, 1993
By Rebecca A. Doyle A collaboration between the Center for the Education of Women and the Housing Division, with valuable input from the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, will be evident this fall in a new program designed to bring together women students interested in science, engineering and mathematics. The Women in…
April 26, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass Today’s students come to the Univer-sity with a different mind-set than that possessed by members of the baby boom and earlier generations. We don’t share past experiences with them, thus sometimes making it difficult for us to understand what they need to help them join the campus community as full participants.…
April 26, 1993
The new 17-member Task Force on the First-Year Experience will consider the nature and outcomes of a student’s first-year experience at the U-M and look for ways to improve the intellectual life of undergraduates. In announcing the formation of the task force, President James J. Duderstadt and Provost Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr. said the group’s…
