October 26, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass Pre-testing of a “path-breaking” survey on alcohol and drug use on campus is under way, with a final survey expected to be administered in late winter. While design and content of the survey have drawn heavily on the Monitoring the Future survey of high school students and young adults done by…
October 26, 1992
Three faculty members were granted emeritus status by the Regents at their October meeting. They are: Lyall H. Powers, professor of English Powers, who joined the faculty in 1958, has published numerous studies of 20th-century fiction, particularly the work of Henry James and William Faulkner. “His many essays range widely, from the 18th-century work of…
October 19, 1992
By Rebecca A. Doyle Avoiding cost increases and improving the quality of service were the goals of the Michigan Research Libraries Triangle (MRLT) when it began a collaborative effort last year to share the journal resources of libraries at Michigan State University, Wayne State University and the U-M. “No library can stand alone any more,”…
October 19, 1992
By Laurie Fenlason Office of University Relations U-M Washington office director Thomas E. Butts last week described the 1991–92 federal legislative session as “one of the most difficult years ever” to secure funding for discretionary programs. He noted that efforts to shift defense spending to domestic programs failed repeatedly, and predicted that researchers, students and…
October 19, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services The monuments that once stood as paeans to communism could, with a little work, be transformed to send a new message to future generations, according to Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Russian emigre artists who will participate in next week’s conference “Utopian Revisions.” The visiting artists will present…
October 19, 1992
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services U-M scientists have discovered two new drugs which may prove highly effective in the fight against HCMV (human cytomegalovirus). HCMV can lead to blindness in AIDS patients and pneumonia in bone marrow transplant patients. The virus is also a leading cause of birth defects in the United States.…
October 19, 1992
Dearborn’s Papazian joins international panel Denis Papazian, professor of history and director of the Armenian Research Center at U-M-Dearborn, has been asked to join an international panel, Roundtable on the Transcaucasus. The panel will bring together government officials, academic experts and representatives from international institutions to discuss the policy challenges posed by the dissolution of…
October 19, 1992
New guidelines for the assignment of the indirect costs of research will be the focus of three open meetings the week of Nov. 2 that all members of the University community are encouraged to attend. The guidelines were prepared by the Joint Administrative/Faculty Task Force on Indirect Costs and are designed to help the University…
October 19, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass Frances R. Aparicio, associate professor of Spanish and of American culture; Donald E. Riggs, dean of the University Library; and Kyra D. Gaunt, a doctoral pre-candidate in ethnomusicology, have been named co-chairs of the 1993 Martin Luther King Day Symposium planning committee. Scheduled for Jan. 18, program activities will reflect the…
October 19, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services While the University faculty “is committed to change, to discovery, to new ways of understanding our world,” it is necessary to recognize that “our students are moving in other directions and experiencing changes that are giving them a different sense of what they want from the University experience,…
