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January 18, 1993
Approval of the final design and budget for the proposed Parking Structure Office Building (PSOB) on the Medical Campus was given by the Regents at their December meeting. To be built atop the proposed North Entrance Parking Structure (NEPS), the PSOB will have 170,000 gross square feet and is estimated to cost $43,270,000, according to…
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January 18, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Employee charged with embezzlement A student adviser in the School of Nursing, who has worked at the U-M for 22 years, has been charged with embezzling more that $100. She was arrested and arraigned in Ann Arbor’s 15th District Court Jan. 5. University Police arrested the 48-year- old Ann Arbor resident…
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January 18, 1993
The Mona A. East Book Endowment Fund has been established in honor of the late librarian who was affiliated with the University Library for 40 years. East joined the U-M in 1945 as a junior order librarian, searching book lists and handling gifts, duplications and filing. When she retired in 1985 she was assistant director…
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January 18, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass A 1988 commitment of funds for programs and scholarships and the hiring of full-time coaching staff for women’s athletics is beginning to pay off, the Regents were told at their December meeting. “The Michigan tradition and model in athletics is very, very special,” said President James J. Duderstadt in opening a…
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January 18, 1993
Medzihradsky receives Fogarty International Fellowship Fedor Medzihradsky, professor of biological chemistry and of pharmacology, has received a Fogarty Senior International Fellowship to carry out sabbatical research on protein-lipid interaction in neural cell membranes at the universities of Utrecht and Wageningen in the Netherlands. Horne heads orientation group Pam Horne, director of orientation and the Campus…
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January 18, 1993
By Leslie Stainton Museum of Art The Museum of Art will present the second concert in its 1992–93 Chamber Concert Season at 8 p.m. Thursday (Jan. 21), in the Apse. “The Museum Chamber Strings: In an English Garden” complements the special exhibition “The Cultivated Image: Garden Photographs by Michael Kenna.” The concert features a program…
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January 18, 1993
A new exhibit, “Tale of Two Lakes: Aquatic Studies by John and Donna Lehman,” is on display in the Exhibit Museum Rotunda. The display highlights some of the research of John T. Lehman, professor of biology and research scientist, Center for Great Lakes and Aquatic Sciences, and Donna Lehman, natural science research associate, Department of…
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January 18, 1993
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services The School of Education has received an $829,584 grant from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund to support the School’s Peace Corps Fellows/USA Program. The four-year grant was announced Jan. 12 in Washington, D.C., by Barbara Zartman, acting director of the Peace Corps, and Mildred Hudson, educational program officer…
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January 18, 1993
From the School of Business Administration Students and faculty using the Kresge Business Administration Library now can search the catalog online through MENTOR. MENTOR (Michigan Electronic Network to Online Resources) provides call number and bibliographic information on books, periodicals, working papers and dissertations available in the library’s extensive collection. The collection includes 115,000 volumes catalogued…
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January 11, 1993
The University’s research expenditures increased by 6.9 percent in 1991–92, reaching a record total of $346,531,594. “The University’s fiscal year 1992 was still another financially sound year in research, one that saw our total research volume climb to levels that set both a record for this institution and a leading pace for the nation’s major…
