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September 8, 1992
From the Office of Staff Benefits Staff and faculty are reminded that participation in benefits programs for themselves and their dependents is not automatic. New staff Application forms for newly eligible faculty and staff must be received by the Office of Staff Benefits within 60 days of 1) eligibility, or 2) the date the appointment…
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September 8, 1992
Marina v.N. Whitman, vice president and group executive for the public affairs and marketing staffs at General Motors Corp., will be a distinguished visiting professor of business administration and public policy this year. Whitman will have a joint teaching appointment in the School of Business Administration and the Institute of Public Policy Studies. A nationally…
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September 8, 1992
Student organizations, individual students, faculty and administrators in-volved in community service projects may apply for one of 22 Michigan Generation Grants available for the first time this year. Applicants for the awards, $500 to $15,000, must show that their projects are innovative and link the campus and the surrounding community. Applicants must be prepared to…
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September 8, 1992
Spouses or partners of recently appointed faculty and staff will get some help in finding work through a program being piloted by the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Colleen Dolan-Greene, assistant vice president for academic affairs-personnel, notes that her office regularly helps the spouses or partners of faculty, and occasionally…
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September 8, 1992
“Studies Seeks Subjects” listings are subject to a $25 per listing, per issue fee. Account numbers, to be billed monthly, must accompany request for listing. Listings are due by 5 p.m. the Tuesday preceding publication. Healthy men or women ages 21–48 needed for sleep study. Participants must be social drinkers with no drug use and…
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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…
