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  1. November 2, 1992

    Respite volunteer loves people, enjoys learning from them

    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.…
  2. November 2, 1992

    Minority enrollment sets another record

    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…
  3. November 2, 1992

    Olds returns to Museum of Art for Sloan Lecture

    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…
  4. October 26, 1992

    Changes in lakes levels 10,000 years ago could explain global chill

    By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services U-M geologists may be close to determining the cause of an abrupt global “cold snap” that occurred about 10,000 years ago as the climate was warming and glaciers were retreating across North America at the close of the last Ice Age. Geologists Theodore C. Moore Jr. and David…
  5. October 26, 1992

    Group editing by computer produces good results

    By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services Imagine three employees sitting beside each other at three computers, all of them writing and editing the same document at the same time. It may sound like “computers from hell,” but U-M researchers have created a software program, dubbed “ShrEdit,” and found that the parallel editing program results…
  6. October 26, 1992

    International programs reorganized; new institute in LS&A

    By Jane R. Elgass The establishment of an Institute for Foreign Area and International Studies (IFAIS) within the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and a reorganization of the Office of International Academic Affairs (OIAA) have been announced by Provost Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr., LS&A Dean Edie N. Goldenberg, and John H. D’Arms, vice…
  7. October 26, 1992

    Kelly gift funds Business School professorship

    William Russell Kelly, founder and chair of Kelly Services Inc., will endow a professorship at the School of Business Administration to support teaching and research in human resources management. The professorship was one of 40 leadership gifts totaling $295 million announced Sept. 18 at the kickoff of The Campaign for Michigan. “We are pleased to…
  8. October 26, 1992

    Regents appoint two faculty members to named professorships

    Slemrod holds Sparks-Whirlpool chair Joel B. Slemrod, professor of business economics, will also hold the Jack D. Sparks-Whirlpool Corporation Research Professorship of Business Administration. His appointment, effective Nov. 1, was approved by the Regents at their October meeting. Funds for the professorship were provided by the Whirlpool Corporation in honor of Jack D. Sparks, former…
  9. October 26, 1992

    Novelist Marge Piercy is DeRoy Visiting Professor in Honors

    By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services Poet and novelist Marge Piercy will be the Helen L. DeRoy Visiting Professor in Honors at the University this month and next. She will conduct a writing seminar for students who have been studying her works, and will make several public presentations. Her visit is sponsored by the…
  10. October 26, 1992

    Ann Arbor enrollment stands at 36,626—310 more than ’91

    A total of 36,626 students are enrolled at the Ann Arbor campus this fall, 310 more than a year ago. Of this year’s total, 23,198 are undergraduates and 13,428 are graduate students. The total includes 20,176 men and 16,450 women. Of the undergraduate total, 16,260 (70.1 percent) are Michigan residents and 6,938 (29.9 percent) are…