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September 28, 1992
Robert M. Warner, dean emeritus of the School of Information and Library Studies (SILS), has been appointed University Historian. “I believe the history of The University of Michigan could be in no better hands,” said President James J. Duderstadt as he announced the honorary appointment at the September Regent’s meeting. Warner is currently chair of…
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September 28, 1992
“The Faculty Member’s Role and Rewards in Technology Transfer”—the first in a series of seminars for faculty interested in issues related to starting a small business, marketing, patents and disclosures, or consulting—will take place 4–6 p.m. on Oct. 6 in Room 133, Chrysler Center. Speakers will include President James J. Duderstadt; William C. Kelly, vice…
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September 28, 1992
Due to an error at the Washtenaw United Way office, The University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center was inadvertently omitted from the listing of United Way designated agencies. If you wish to donate to The University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, please write it in, and include the code designation #500—UM Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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September 28, 1992
Jay Hartford wants to tap the practical streak hidden within the “outstanding basic researchers” working at the College of Engineering. “We’re not trying to make radical changes here,” says Hartford, the College’s newly appointed executive director of technology transfer. “The central emphasis on basic research and education is appropriate and will continue. “But we hope…
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September 21, 1992
Two faculty members were granted emeritus status by the Regents at their September meeting. They are: Kenneth A. Lockridge, professor of history In 1970 Lockridge joined the U-M and published his first major book, A New England Town: The First Hundred Years. “By 1985, when an expanded edition was published, more than 130,000 copies of…
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September 21, 1992
By Rebecca A. Doyle When Michael Dames graduated from the U-M in 1988, he looked for a job that would make a difference in the lives of other people. “The Boy Scouts of America gives direction and focus. It brings young people in off the streets and gives them an ‘I can’ attitude,” says the…
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September 21, 1992
“Political Communication in an Election Year: Involvement or Alienation” will be the subject of a series of seven free, public talks at the U-M this fall that are sponsored by the Department of Communication. John Zaller, professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, will deliver the first lecture, “Nature and Origins…
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September 21, 1992
Decontamination efforts were completed last week on the seventh floor of Medical Science Research Building I (MSRB I), where a small spill of low-level radioactive fluid during the weekend of Sept. 12–13 was unknowingly spread around the floor on the shoes of staff members and researchers. Mark L. Driscoll, U-M radiation safety officer, emphasizes that…
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September 21, 1992
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Board of Regents at its September meeting. Maya Lin sculpture approved for North Campus The plan for a courtyard sculpture for the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building now under construction on the North Campus was approved. “The building, for the Department of Aerospace Engineering, is funded substantially by…
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September 21, 1992
The University has been fined $1,250 by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for an incident that occurred at the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project research nuclear reactor June 8. In the incident, reactor operators removed a fuel element while the reactor core was running at low power, causing the reactor to shut down. A team of…
