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November 23, 1992
The U-M has completed negotiations with the federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), establishing a new indirect cost rate of 52 percent applicable to federally sponsored research projects. The three-year agreement is retroactive to the beginning of the current fiscal year (July 1, 1992). The negotiated rate replaces the 47.2 percent rate that…
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November 23, 1992
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN’S STATEMENT OF STUDENT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES Ann Arbor Campus November 10, 1992 Preamble The University of Michigan is dedicated to creating a scholarly community that promotes intellectual inquiry, encourages vigorous discourse, and respects individual freedom and dignity. Civility, diversity of opinion, and freedom of expression are all valued as the necessary…
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November 23, 1992
Dec. 4 is the deadline for reservations for the University’s official Rose Bowl tour, sponsored by the Alumni Association. There are two tours—Maize, Dec. 28–Jan. 3, and Blue, Dec. 29–Jan. 2. Both are available as air/land packages, land-only packages and air-only packages. Per person rates range from $757 for the Blue Tour land-only package with…
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November 23, 1992
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Board of Regents at its November meeting. Capital outlay readied Renovation and construction projects to be included in the University’s 1993–94 capital outlay request to the state were approved. The request for projects on the Ann Arbor main campus totals $157,500,000, including $40,000,000 for new projects;…
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November 23, 1992
John H. Holland, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and of psychology, has been chosen as the 1993 Russel Lecturer. The annual lectureship is the highest honor the University gives to senior faculty members. Holland was nominated for the honor by the U-M Research Club and was confirmed by the Regents at their November…
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November 16, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS) has received a $249,500 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to provide postdoctoral fellowships for scholars in the humanities to work on the theme of “African Peoples in the Industrial Age.” “Structural changes in the global economy have long linked African…
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November 16, 1992
CARMEL, the U-M robot that won first place in a national robotics competition last summer, has been chosen by the editors of Popular Science magazine to receive a “Best of What’s New” award for 1992. The “Best of What’s New” is an annual selection of the year’s 100 top products, technologies and scientific achievements as…
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November 16, 1992
Editor’s Note: The following books have been published by the U-M Press . Remembered Lives: The Work of Ritual, Storytelling, and Growing Older by Barbara Myerhoff. Edited and with an introduction by Marc Kaminsky, founding co-director of the Myerhoff Center, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Long before the current interest in gerontology came about, Myerhoff…
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November 16, 1992
The global impact of free trade in the Western Hemisphere will be the focus of a two-day symposium here Friday and Saturday (Nov. 20–21). The free, public symposium, “Issues in the Formation of a Western Hemisphere Regional Bloc,” will be held in the Hussey Room of the Michigan League. “Now that we have reached agreement…
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November 16, 1992
By Mary Jo Frank Five University presidents, whose leadership has spanned more than four decades, last Tuesday shared insights on a variety of topics, including student life and public financing of higher education. President James J. Duderstadt (1988–present) and past presidents Harlan H. Hatcher (1951–67), Robben W. Fleming (1968–79), Allan F. Smith (1979) and Harold…
