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November 2, 2009
The feature film “Trust,” starring Clive Owen and directed by David Schwimmer, will begin production at the new North Campus Research Complex in November. U-M purchased the complex in June, about 18 months after pharmaceutical giant Pfizer vacated the 30-building campus on Ann Arbor’s north side. The research and development facilities currently are vacant as…
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November 2, 2009
The exhibit REDUX/The Berlin Wall. 1989/2009, is presented 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday Nov. 12-Dec. 11 in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, Room 1010 Thayer Building, with photos by Piotr Michalowski, George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Civilization and Languages and professor of Near Eastern studies. (Photo by Piotr Michalowski)
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November 2, 2009
Four researchers have been awarded National Institutes of Health grants totaling $4.7 million for research in chemistry, medicine and engineering. More than $67.4 million in the form of 56 grants were given to researchers across the country. The awards were given through the Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) program, whose goal is to…
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November 2, 2009
The St. Lawrence String Quartet performs at 4 p.m. Nov. 8 at Rackham Auditorium. Together for 20 years, the group, which regularly plays a traditional quartet repertoire, also is committed to performing and expanding the works of living composers. Sponsored by the University Musical Society, 764-2538. (Photo by Marco Borggreve)
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November 2, 2009
Regent Julia Darlow, above left, presents the 20th annual James T. Neubacher Award to Tobin Siebers, who is V.L. Parrington Collegiate Professor in the Department of English, and also serves as chair of the steering committee for the Initiative on Disability Studies. Siebers was honored for his unflagging advocacy on behalf of people with disabilities,…
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November 2, 2009
The film “I Am From Titov Veles” is presented at 2:30-4 p.m. and at 4-5:30 p.m. Nov. 3 at the School of Social Work Building, Room 1636. Three sisters put self-interest above family as they take steps to escape their dying community. (Macedonian with English subtitles). It is sponsored by the Center for Russian and…
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November 2, 2009
The Senate Assembly has overwhelmingly expressed a preference for faculty-grievance hearing panels that contain members from inside the unit in which the grievance originated, but not in a majority role. In a non-binding straw poll last Monday, the faculty governance body unanimously supported a suggestion that Grievance Hearing Boards (GHBs) should consist of five members,…
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November 2, 2009
The Navy’s retired top lawyer and a retired brigadier general and psychiatrist will join Michigan Law graduate Elisa Massimino for a panel discussion on how best to keep the United States safe in a post-Guantanamo Bay world. The panel discussion, organized by the Law School‘s Office of Public Service, is set for 4-6 p.m. Nov.…
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November 2, 2009
Renowned American fashion designer and humanitarian Kenneth Cole will speak at 4 p.m. on Nov. 11 at the School of Public Health. Cole, who has been on the frontlines of important social and public health issues for more than 25 years, will talk about corporate responsibility and his work on public health issues such as…
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November 2, 2009
Award Dr. Eva Feldman, director of the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute and Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology at the Medical School, is president-elect of the American Neurological Association, a professional society of academic neurologists and neuroscientists. She will become president in two years. The association educates physicians in the neurosciences and works…
