March 14, 2005
Charles H. Sawyer Charles (Charlie) H. Sawyer, former director of the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA), died Feb. 25 after a brief illness. He was born Oct. 20, 1906, in Andover, Mass., to James Cowan Sawyer and Mary Pepperrell Frost Sawyer. (Photo courtesy UMMA) Sawyer attended Phillips Academy, Andover, and then Yale University, where he…
March 14, 2005
By Diane Brown Facilities and Operations Students robbed in Fletcher Hall Two residents of Fletcher Hall awoke Feb. 18 to find money and personal property missing, as well as evidence that someone had searched their room while they slept. Officers from the Department of Public Safety (DPS) found no signs of forced entry and the…
March 7, 2005
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February 21, 2005
Janet Baylis Janet Baylis, an Information Technology Central Services (ITCS) administrative staff member, died Jan. 7 at Arbor Hospice Residence after a brief illness. She was 61. Baylis worked for U-M for more than 40 years. She was a graduate of Ann Arbor High School and began her University career in the Extension Services department…
February 21, 2005
Editor’s note: The following actions were taken by the Board of Regents at its February meeting. Auditorium approved for North Campus The regents approved construction of a large classroom auditorium on North Campus. They also approved the selection of Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg as the design architects. It is anticipated the 450-seat auditorium will be…
February 21, 2005
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February 14, 2005
Two students robbed off campus The Department of Public Safety (DPS) issued a crime alert Feb. 1 after two students were robbed in their off-campus apartment earlier that day. The students reported to Ann Arbor Police officers that three Black men, one with a handgun, entered their apartment in the 500 block of Hill Street…
January 31, 2005
Gerard Faeth Gerard Faeth, an aerospace engineering professor and top NASA advisor who led a 2003 Columbia Space Shuttle experiment examining how to reduce soot and other pollutants in the burning of fuel, passed away suddenly Jan. 24. Prof. Gerard Faeth, left, speaks to a team of researchers and astronauts, including astronauts Kalpana Chawla (right,…
January 31, 2005
Editor’s note: The following actions were taken by the Board of Regents at its January meeting. Pharmacy lab to be renovated Students in the College of Pharmacy will have access next fall to a new teaching laboratory that will accommodate up to 80 students at individual workstations. Existing lab space on the first floor of…
January 24, 2005
Michael Radock Michael Radock, vice president for university relations and professor of journalism from 1961-81, died Dec. 15 at age 87 at the Glacier Hills Nursing Center in Ann Arbor. Courtesy Radock family Radock was born July 17, 1917, in Belle Vernon, Penn. In 1942, he graduated magna cum laude from Westminster College in Pennsylvania.…
