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September 8, 1992
William C. Kelly, vice president for research, has announced that 23 research scientists from eight units have received promotions effective Sept. 1 . “The high quality of our primary research faculty strengthens the research enterprise in numerous units across the University,” notes Sarah Winans Newman, associate vice president for research. “We look forward to congratulating…
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September 8, 1992
Reprinted from the ITDigest, August 3, 1992 Callers to ITD’s computer help line, 764-HELP, will soon notice a few changes. During August, 764-HELP consultants installeed and began using Answer Computer’s Apriori Help Desk Management software package in an effort to improve the services they provide. The Apriori system gives first-line consultants access to a database…
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September 8, 1992
This fall, students in selected high schools in Madison Heights, Bloomfield Hills, Northville, Walled Lake and Detroit will be able to connect their classroom workstations to the Internet, allowing them access to such things as data from Voyager II, political debate with students in Japan and mentoring programs with U-M faculty. Project Connect, a partnership…
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September 8, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services Researchers at the Center for Great Lakes and Aquatic Sciences (CGLAS) have discovered a previously uncharted, “extraordinarily well-preserved” wreck of a 19th-century three-masted sailing ship on the bottom of Lake Huron. While there are hundreds of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, the U-M discovery is unique because the…
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September 8, 1992
By Nicole McKinney Record Special Writer Spending two afternoons a week throughout the school year and every day during the summer at a nuclear reactor may not excite every high school junior. But it’s paying off for Tekeshia Bailey. Bailey, a work-study intern at the Phoenix Memorial Laboratory, won the national gold medal in chemistry…
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September 8, 1992
By Harriet Teller Michigan Radio Michigan Radio, USC Radio (University of Southern California) and Carlson Marketing Group Automotive Division (CMG Automotive) have announced a major grant to fund local underwriting in Michigan and Los Angeles of Marketplace, American Public Radio’s daily program on business and the global economy. The show can be heard weekdays at…
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September 8, 1992
By Mary Jo Frank Moving and Trucking’s expert staff are movers, not shakers. Moving artistic masterpieces, sensitive scientific instruments and radioactive materials is all in a day’s work for the 13 movers, two stockkeepers, dispatcher and two foremen who work at Moving and Trucking. The trained millwrights and riggers even move whole departments, making the…
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September 8, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services The Alpena County Library and Cromaine (Hartland) Library have each received a $1,000 grant from the Competitive Edge Conference Committee, a product of the conference “The Competitive Edge: Information for the New Economy” held at the U-M last November. The Alpena Library will use the grant to develop…
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September 8, 1992
Manfred Lachs, justice on the International Court of Justice, The Hague, will present the William W. Bishop Lectureship in International Law at 4 p.m. Wed. (Sept. 9) in Room 250, Hutchins Hall, Law School. The lecture hall is wheelchair-accessible. The lectureship honors the late William W. Bishop Jr., the Edwin DeWitt Dickinson Professor of Law,…
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September 8, 1992
When it comes to moving—personal belongings, expensive equipment or their offices—people often get uptight. But they don’t need to be anxious about campus moves, says Kenneth R. McCrath, who has arranged moves of millions of dollars of equipment for the College of Engineering’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). “I don’t even stand…
