November 16, 1992
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services The best part about living in Ann Arbor is the people, says Moscow aircraft designer Oleg Samoilovich, who is a visiting professor in aerospace engineering this term. “People are very friendly, open and straight-forward,” Samoilovich says. “I don’t feel like I’m in a foreign country.” Samoilovich, who speaks…
November 16, 1992
The appointment of Laura McCain Patterson as University Registrar has been announced by Mary Ann P. Swain, associate vice president for academic affairs. She will assume her new duties May 1. Patterson will succeed Douglas R. Woolley, who has served as interim registrar since the retirement of Alfred A. Stuart in June. Patterson has been…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
November 16, 1992
Joel D. Howell, associate professor of internal medicine, has received a Charles E. Culpepper Foundation Scholarship in Medical Humanities. He will receive $30,000 per year for three years to fund his research on how American physicians used medical equipment in 1925–50. He will focus on the equipment and its capabilities as well as on the…
November 16, 1992
Aleksandra Ligita Rozentals Aleksandra Ligita Rozentals, lecturer in French, died of Hodgkin’s disease on Nov. 3. She was 29. Rozentals was born Sept. 9, 1963, in Kalamazoo. She was a graduate of Kalamazoo College and of Michigan State University (master’s degree in art) and attended the University of Dakar, Senegal, West Africa. She was a…
November 16, 1992
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Product warning labels—meant to protect you from the potential dangers of consumer products like pesticides and drain cleaners—may be hazardous to your health, according to a study by a U-M doctoral student in engineering. “The current practice of separating warnings from the directions for use increases the chances…
