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September 21, 1992
University officials this year will continue to clamp down on vendors who sell counterfeit merchandise displaying registered trademarks at home football games. University Police and other law enforcement officers patrolled the Michigan Stadium area at the Wolverines home opener against Oklahoma State and will do so at several other games this season. The Collegiate Licensing…
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September 21, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services “Monitoring the Future,” the annual national survey of America’s secondary students conducted by the Institute for Social Research (ISR), has received an $18 million federal grant to continue and expand its work over the next five years. The grant is one of the largest in the history of…
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September 21, 1992
Expenditures in the General Fund of the U-M’s three campuses in 1991–92 totaled $665,592,000, a 2.6 percent decrease from the previous year, the Regents were informed at their September meeting. The General Fund relies largely on student fees and state appropriations, and pays for teaching, research, library services, student scholarships and fellowships, and maintenance and…
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September 21, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services Automobile emissions in California pollute the air in Arizona’s Grand Canyon; pollution reaches the Great Lakes by air and rain from—someplace else? Today, says Garry D. Brewer, dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, “there is no ‘someplace else’… there is no ‘away’ to throw things.”…
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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…
