November 9, 1992
Democrats Laurence B. Deitch and Rebecca McGowan will take office as Regents Jan. 1. Deitch and McGowan, elected to eight-year terms Nov. 3, will replace Veronica Latta Smith of Grosse Ile, who didn’t run for re-election, and Neal D. Nielsen. Smith and Nielsen are Republicans. Deitch, a lawyer from Bloomfield Village, earned a B.A. in…
November 9, 1992
By Mary Jo Frank Five staff members will be honored at the first Distinguished Staff Award ceremony and dinner Thursday (Nov. 12) in the Kalamazoo Room of the Michigan League. Those to be honored for unusual and exemplary service to the University and for outstanding achievements in their work are Cynthia A. Kabza, manager of…
November 2, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services Cooperation between private landowners and environmentalists, mixed with “good biology,” is the formula for successful conservation, the director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service told students last week at the School of Natural Resources and Environment seminar. Also necessary are resource managers who communicate well with…
November 2, 1992
Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang, the Samuel A. Goudsmit Visiting Professor at the U-M, will give the first Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics at 4 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 3) in Rackham Amphitheater. Yang, the Einstein Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, will discuss “Considerations on Carbon 60: Supermolecules,…
November 2, 1992
The Kresge Hearing Research Institute has received a $7 million, four-year award from the National Institutes of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to study hearing and the causes of deafness. Knowledge gained from the study will benefit more than 20 million American who suffer from some form of hearing loss. Researchers are working to understand…
November 2, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services The fourth in a series of five conferences on “Jews and the Encounter with the New World, 1492/1992” will be held here on Nov. 8. Scholars from the U-M and other institutions will discuss “Jews, Conversos and the Inquisition in the New World.” The conference is part of…
November 2, 1992
Ward heads pathology group Peter A. Ward, chair of the Department of Pathology, has been named president of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. The 6,000-member organization is the North American component of the International Academy of Pathology. Book on race , environment edited by Bryant, Mohai Race and the Incidence of Environmental…
November 2, 1992
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services If our prehistoric ancestors were touring a museum with modern day visitors, their tastes in landscape paintings might be surprisingly similar. “Human beings seem intuitively to prefer scenes that are coherent and accessible but slightly mysterious. They also are inclined toward landscapes that make them feel that, if…
November 2, 1992
By Mary Jo Frank Normally, voters are bored with presidential politics by mid-October in an election year, says Holli A. Semetko, assistant professor of communication and of political science. Not so this year. “This year people are very, very interested in this campaign. And the campaign is dealing with serious issues. We also have a…
November 2, 1992
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services A U-M chemist has developed the first ultrasmall fiber-optic sensor capable of monitoring chemical properties within a living cell. With a tip visible only under magnification, the new sensor is 1,000 times smaller than existing fiber-optic sensors and responds in milliseconds, or 100 times faster than current optical…
