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January 18, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Robert L. Robb, the newly hired director of the Intellectual Properties Office (IPO), is looking for researchers who share his vision and enthusiasm for the benefits technology transfer can bring to the University and to the local economy. “One of the inherent charters of all institutions of higher…
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January 18, 1993
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services The “architectural fantasies” of Iakov Chernikhov, on display in the Rackham Galleries through Feb. 1, are not plans for buildings as much as they are proposals for a new world of architectural form and a new language of vision. Chernikhov was a leading architect, graphic artist, theorist and…
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January 18, 1993
The University has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice regarding inadvertent overcharges for federally funded research use of the U-M’s academic mainframe computer, the Michigan Terminal System (MTS). The University will pay the government $2.8 million for inadvertently overcharging researchers on federal grants for…
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January 18, 1993
A search advisory committee for a director of undergraduate admissions has been appointed by Mary Ann P. Swain, associate vice president for academic affairs. The committee will hire an outside consultant to assist in the search and currently is developing criteria for the position. Swain hopes to fill the position by Aug. 1. The group…
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January 18, 1993
Editor’s Note: The following books have been published by the U-M Press. Singular Europe: The Economy and Polity of the European Community after 1992, edited by William James Adams, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Economics. The implementation of Project 1992 has invigorated Europe—the old continent—with the strength and vitality of youth. In Singular Europe,…
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January 18, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank LS&A faculty will be asked to make some high-stakes curriculum decisions in the upcoming months, according to Michael M. Martin. They will be discussing such issues as adding a quantitative reasoning requirement for undergraduates, emphasizing writing and critical thinking in courses taken by first- and second-year students, and making sure that…
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January 18, 1993
The following citation was presented by the Regents at their December meeting to Bernard Klein, interim chancellor at U-M-Dearborn. “The Regents are once again indebted to Dr. Bernard Klein for his service as interim chancellor of the Dearborn campus since September of this year. “As he did in 1979–80, Dr. Klein has once again brought…
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January 18, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Five employees who were recently honored for 40 years of service agree that the University has changed dramatically since they were hired. They’ve changed too, taking on additional responsibilities since the days when they started out, working as a maid, an elevator operator, a draftsman and a file clerk, and “doing…
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January 18, 1993
Editor’s Note: These summaries of research projects were presented to the Regents at their December meeting by William C. Kelly, vice president for research. The material here was prepared for the Record by the staff of ResearchNews, a publication of the Division of Research Development and Administration. Liberalization and Its Limits: State Formation and State…
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January 18, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass A Universitywide policy that clarifies regulations concerning the use of the Central Campus Diag and the North Campus Common has been implemented by Farris W. Womack, vice president and chief financial officer, and Maureen A. Hartford, vice president for student affairs. Preliminary work on the policy, which was effective Jan. 4,…
