July 22, 2013
The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its July 18 meeting. Regents approve design for G. G. Brown renovation The Board of Regents approved the design for a renovation of the George Granger Brown Memorial Laboratories building for the College of Engineering. The renovation will update infrastructure, including the entire building’s…
July 22, 2013
June 2013 crime map> Employee reports assault by co-workers An employee at the North Campus Research Complex told police June 19 that he had been assaulted by co-workers on multiple occasions since April 2013. One of the assaults reportedly involved a suspect using a pocket knife or key to cut some of the victim’s hair.…
July 8, 2013
James C. Snyder Professor Emeritus James C. Snyder, who served as interim dean of the Taubman College of Achitecture and Urban Planning from 1997-98, died June 24 at the age of 73 after an 18-year battle with cancer. Snyder taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before joining U-M in…
June 24, 2013
Dr. Herbert Dean Millard Dr. Herbert Dean Millard, who chaired the School of Dentistry’s first Department of Oral Diagnosis and served in that position for nearly 30 years, died June 4. He was 89. Millard received his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the U-M School of Dentistry in 1952 and immediately joined the School…
June 24, 2013
May 2013 crime map > Break-in reported at Botanical Gardens Staff at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens reported to police May 23 that they discovered two unknown subjects in one of the buildings prior to opening for the day. Staff confronted the subjects who left the building. While reporting the incident to police, a window screen…
June 24, 2013
The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its June 20 meeting. East Hall renovation for biopsychology Approximately 12,500 gross square feet of office space within East Hall will be renovated to create a new research laboratory for the Biopsychology Area of the Department of Psychology. The $4.6 million project will be…
June 10, 2013
Bryan Rogers, former dean of Art & Design, dies at age 72 Submitted by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design Bryan Rogers, professor and former dean of what is now the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, died May 28 at home, after a lengthy illness and in the care…
May 20, 2013
April 2013 crimemap > Two crime alerts still unsolved Two major crimes — a sexual assault and a robbery — that reportedly occurred on campus in April still are under investigation, but U-M police have few leads. On April 28, a female visitor told police that as she was walking from South University through the…
May 20, 2013
The following items were approved the Board of Regents at its May 16 meeting. Lab renovation planned at G. G. Brown A renovation of an existing lab space on the second floor of the George Granger Brown Memorial Laboratories building will allow the relocation of a flame spray pyrolysis apparatus used in nanoparticle research into…
May 20, 2013
Carolyn Annette Myers (nee Sutton) Carolyn Annette Myers (nee Sutton), who worked as a new patient scheduler in the Rheumatology Department at the U-M Health System, died May 12 of cancer. She was 45. She is survived by her husband, Verne; her sisters, Theresa Sutton, Mary Breijak (Sutton) and Patty Sutton; her brother, Peter Sutton;…
