Campus News

  1. March 6, 2006

    Obituaries

    Richard Sacks Professor of Chemistry Richard Sacks died Feb. 11 at his home in Ann Arbor after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 63. Sacks (Photo by Bob Foran) Sacks received his bachelor of science in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1965, and his doctorate in analytical chemistry from the…
  2. March 6, 2006

    Regents Roundup

    From the February 2006 meeting. Law School renovations approved Classroom 138 in Hutchins Hall will be updated and a nearby locker room will be converted to administrative office space through a $1.68 million renovation project. Funded by the Law School, the project will enable the highly used classroom to be more flexible and accessible. It…
  3. March 6, 2006

    Police Beat

    Police Beat appears monthly in the Record. Look for the next installment in the issue of March 13.
  4. February 20, 2006

    Obituaries

    Paul Carter Paul Carter, professor emeritus of education at U-M-Dearborn, died Jan. 27 of heart failure. He was 96. (Photo courtesy U-M-Dearborn) Carter was instrumental in building the education programs offered at U-M-Dearborn, including the creation of the master’s degree in education in 1975. As coordinator of teacher certification in the liberal arts division, Carter…
  5. February 20, 2006

    Regents Roundup

    Law School renovations approved Classroom 138 in Hutchins Hall will be updated and a nearby locker room will be converted to administrative office space through a $1.68 million renovation project. Funded by the Law School, the project will enable the highly used classroom to be more flexible and accessible. It will be redesigned to reduce…
  6. February 20, 2006

    Police Beat

    Police Beat appears monthly in the Record. Look for the next installment in the issue of March 13.
  7. February 13, 2006

    Obituaries

    Paul Carter Paul Carter, professor emeritus of education at U-M-Dearborn, died Jan. 27 of heart failure. He was 96. (Photo courtesy U-M-Dearborn) Carter was instrumental in building the education programs offered at U-M-Dearborn, including the creation of the master’s degree in education in 1975. As coordinator of teacher certification in the liberal arts division, Carter…
  8. February 13, 2006

    Police Beat

    January 2006 crime map> DPS seeks witnesses to armed robbery The Department of Public Safety (DPS) is continuing its investigation of a report of an armed robbery around midnight Feb. 4 on Thompson Street near Jefferson. A male student called DPS around 12:35 a.m. to report that three unknown men had approached him as he…
  9. February 6, 2006

    Police Beat

    Police Beat appears monthly in the Record. Look for the next installment in the issue of February 13.
  10. February 6, 2006

    Obituaries

    James Wendel James Gutwillig Wendel, emeritus professor of mathematics, died Jan. 16 in Portland, Ore., of complications from cancer. He was 83. (Photo courtesy Department of Mathematics) Wendel was born April 18, 1922, in Portland, where he lived until graduating from Reed College in 1943. His collegiate years were interrupted by World War II, during…