September 15, 2008
August 2008 crime map > Two robberies reported last week Two off-campus robberies were reported to the Ann Arbor Police last week involving University students. In both cases, the victims reported giving the perpetrators money, who then fled without further incident. The Ann Arbor Police later indicated they were considering the two incidents connected and…
August 11, 2008
July 2008 crime map > Sexual assault reported near Perry Building A U-M student told the Ann Arbor Police Department (AAPD) that an unknown man approached her as she was walking home about 2:30 a.m. Aug. 3. He reportedly said something to her in Spanish, then grabbed her and forced her behind a house across…
July 28, 2008
Police Beat is a monthly feature of the University Record. The next publication date is August 11.
July 28, 2008
Dorwin Cartwright Dorwin “Doc” Cartwright, one of the founders of the field of group dynamics, died of chronic renal failure July 18 in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 93. “Doc Cartwright was one of the pioneers in the field,” says social psychologist James S. Jackson, director of the Institute for Social Research (ISR), where Cartwright…
July 28, 2008
The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its July 17 meeting. Renovations planned at LSI for electron microscopy A new suite will be created from unfinished space at the Life Sciences Institute (LSI) to support three new cryo-electron microscopes that will provide high-resolution specimen images free of the distortion traditional electron…
July 14, 2008
June 2008 crime map > y Infant’s mother arrested A 21-year-old mother of a 6-week-old infant was observed June 7 in C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital smothering the infant with a pillow for more than a minute. The woman was arrested and has been charged with attempted murder and first-degree child abuse. The infant was taken…
July 14, 2008
Ted Dielman Ted Dielman, professor emeritus of health behavior and health education and professor emeritus of medical education, died June 29 at home in Green Valley, Ariz. He was 68. Dielman was born Aug. 15, 1939, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of Frederick Charles and Hazel Farrell Dielman. He grew up in Canton, Kansas,…
July 14, 2008
Renovations planned at LSI for electron microscopy A new suite will be created from unfinished space at the Life Sciences Institute (LSI) to support three new cryo-electron microscopes that will provide high-resolution specimen images free of the distortion traditional electron microscopy may cause. The $1.8 million project will be funded by LSI, the Medical School…
June 23, 2008
View 2008 crime map > Sexual assault reported near Rackham A 41-year-old Ann Arbor woman flagged down a Department of Public Safety (DPS) officer May 17 and reported she was assaulted in a car by an unknown man. The police officer had observed the woman exiting an older model, two-door white car on Huron Street…
June 23, 2008
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