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November 2, 1992
By Rebecca A. Doyle Lois Moses likes people. Through her work in the admissions office of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, she meets lots of people, including international students, and enjoys them all. But that isn’t enough. Each week, Moses volunteers her time to Respite Volunteers of Washtenaw, through Catholic Social Services.…
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November 2, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services Minority student enrollment on the Ann Arbor campus continues to climb, according to a report released last Wednesday. Fall enrollment figures show that the number of minority students has grown to 7,097, or 21.4 percent of the student body. This is a significant increase from last year’s number…
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November 2, 1992
By Leslie Stainton Museum of Art Clifton Olds, the Edith Cleaves Barry Professor of the History and Criticism of Art at Bowdoin College, will deliver this year’s Doris Sloan Memorial Lecture at the Museum of Art at 8 p.m. Sunday (Nov. 7) in Auditorium B, Angell Hall. Olds, who formerly was associate professor of the…
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November 2, 1992
Nursing educators and practitioners from across the country were in Ann Arbor recently to honor U.S. Rep. Carl D. Pursell, R-Plymouth, as a leading congressional advocate for nursing, health care and education. “Since 1979, when a national coalition of nursing faculty and students worked successfully with his office to spearhead a fight to protect federal…
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November 2, 1992
By Harriet Teller Michigan Radio Michigan Radio will begin its 10-day Autumn Drive on Nov. 10. This year’s drive has a goal of $160,000. While Michigan Radio is a broadcast service of the University, contributions from listeners cover almost 40 percent of the station’s operating expenses. “Fund raising is very serious business and crucial to…
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November 2, 1992
The Center for Human Growth and Development will host a symposium 1–5:30 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 4) in Rackham Amphitheater in honor of Stanley Marion Garn, who will retire in December. Garn, who joined the U-M in 1968, is professor of nutrition and of anthropology and a fellow in the center. The symposium will include a…
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November 2, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass The appointment of an 11-member advisory committee to assist in the search for a new vice president for research has been announced by President James J. Duderstadt. William C. Kelly, who has been vice president since January 1990, will retire from the post this summer. “Dr. Kelly has served the University…
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November 2, 1992
Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, authors of Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights and Taxes on American Politics, will deliver the Ben Yablonky Lecture at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Wallace House, home of the Michigan Journalism Fellows Program. Thomas Edsall has been a national political reporter at the Washington Post…
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November 2, 1992
Shien-Ming Wu Shien-Ming Wu, the J. Reid and Polly Anderson Professor of Manufacturing Technology, died of complications from heart surgery on Oct. 28 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. He was 68 years old. An internationally known researcher in the fields of manufacturing engineering and dynamic systems analysis, Wu created and defined the modern field of…
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November 2, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass A number of visiting scholars are expected to be on campus this year under the auspices of the Visiting Scholars Program in the Office of the Vice Provost for Minority Affairs. Rumors of the death of what was called the King/Chavez/Parks Visiting Scholars Program are untrue, says Vice Provost for Minority…
