May 21, 2012
April 2012 crime map > Two charged with robbery Two subjects have been charged with three felonies in connection with an unarmed robbery near Cram Circle in early April. Both campus visitors, the two have been arraigned on charges of unarmed robbery, felonious assault with a motor vehicle and possession of drugs with intent to…
April 23, 2012
The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its April 19 meeting. Renovations planned at the Law School The Board of Regents approved the $7 million Law School Renovation Phase II project that will renovate approximately 30,000 gross square feet of space within Hutchins Hall and the William W. Cook Legal Research…
April 16, 2012
Radio and television journalist and U-M alumnus Mike Wallace died on April 7. He was 93 years old. Wallace’s stature as a broadcast journalism icon was rooted in his over 40-year tenure with the CBS News program “60 Minutes.” Wallace, AB ’39, HLLD ’87, of New York City was part of the original “60 Minutes”…
April 16, 2012
March 2012 crime map > Student robbed in Arb, suspect in jail A 26-year-old Saginaw man has been charged in connection with a March 19 unarmed robbery in the Arboretum. A student had reported that she was punched in the face around 4:40 p.m. as she walked in the Arb and her cell phone and…
April 9, 2012
Hubert (Hu) English Hubert (Hu) English, emeritus professor of English, LSA, died suddenly Feb. 8 in a manner wholly in keeping with the civility of his life, family members say, while walking with his wife and their dog in a park. English was born July 2, 1925, in Gary, Ind. At 18, he entered national…
April 2, 2012
Celebrated civil rights litigator John Payton has died at age 65. He was the lead counsel throughout the university’s landmark case Gratz v. Bollinger, the LSA undergraduate admissions case argued in 2003 before the Supreme Court of the United States. Payton was remembered by President Barack Obama as a “personal friend” and “a true champion…
March 19, 2012
The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its March 15 meeting. ANN ARBOR CAMPUS Faculty appointments with tenure Dr. Amr H. Sawalha, associate professor of internal medicine, Medical School, effective April 1. Bruno E. Simma, professor of law, Law School, effective Sept. 1. Named professorships Dr. Ann A. Little, James W.…
March 12, 2012
Leo F. McNamara Leo F. McNamara, emeritus professor of English, died Feb. 9 at the age of 78. McNamara was born June 3, 1933, in Clinton, Mass., the son of Leo and Helen (Weaver) McNamara. He received his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1954. The next year he married Barbara…
March 12, 2012
February 2012 crime map > Burglaries reported at three apartments Residents in two Northwood Community apartments reported March 2 that backpacks had been taken from the first floor of their apartments. The incidents occurred in Northwood V on Stone Road. One resident reported that she had been sleeping upstairs and found her backpack missing when…
February 20, 2012
The following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its Feb. 16 meeting. Meeting schedule set for 2013, 2014 The Board of Regents approved meeting schedules for 2013 and 2014 during its Feb. 16 meeting. The regents will meet 11 times per year, with no meeting in August. All meetings are on the…
