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June 3, 2002
Editor’s Note: The following items were taken up by the regents at their May 16 meeting. Facilities items listed in the May 20 issue were from the April regents’ meeting. New elevators for Med Inn Two guest elevators in the Med Inn Building will be replaced at a projected cost of $1.1 million. The Med…
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June 3, 2002
Richard ‘Andy’ Andrews A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. today (June 3) at the Business School’s Hale Auditorium for Richard W. (Andy) Andrews, associate professor of statistics, who died of a heart attack May 29 in Brazil. He was 61. Andrews, who had taught at the Business School since 1974, was also…
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May 20, 2002
By Wono Lee, News and Information Services and Diane Brown, Facilities and Operations Administrative appointments Administrative appointments approved by the regents at their May 16 meeting included: Henry I. Mosberg, professor of medicinal chemistry, was reappointed as associate dean for research and graduate education at the College of Pharmacy, effective April 1, 2002–June 30, 2005.…
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May 20, 2002
By Diane Brown Facilities and Operations Assault in a family housing unit A 22-year-old man was arrested April 15 after allegedly kidnapping his former girlfriend from an Eastern Michigan University building, forcing her to drive to a U-M apartment on North Campus that was leased by a family member and assaulting her. Neither the man…
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May 6, 2002
Gale Edward Jensen Gale Edward Jensen, professor emeritus of education and community development, died April 15. Jensen joined the School of Education faculty in 1956 as an associate professor specializing in community development adult education. When he retired in 1984, he was a professor of education and community development. Jensen received his B.S. from the…
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April 22, 2002
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the regents at their April meeting. By Wono Lee, News and Information Servicesand Diane Brown, Facilities and Operations Addition to be built to the Law School The regents approved a Law School project to add approximately 130,000 square feet of new space on the south side of…
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April 22, 2002
By Diane Brown Facilities and Operations Additional crime alerts issued The Department of Public Safety (DPS) issued six crime alerts since mid-March—three home invasions, two Peeping Toms and one armed robbery in Ann Arbor. In the early morning of April 9, a U-M student reported that he was walking in the 700 block of Church…
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April 8, 2002
James Edward Lesch James Edward Lesch, 80, died on March 24, at the Saline Evangelical Home. Lesch was a widely respected research administrator whose U-M career spanned 33 years. He served as director of the Division of Research Development and Administration (DRDA) from 1973 until his retirement in 1987. Prior to that appointment he worked…
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March 25, 2002
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the regents at their March meeting By Diane BrownFacilities and Operations Pierpont Commons renovation moves forward The regents authorized staff to issue the previously approved Pierpont Commons renovation project for bids and to award a construction contract providing the bids are within budget. At the Feb. 2001…
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March 25, 2002
Nancy Foran Nancy Foran, associate professor of accounting at U-M–Dearborn, died Feb. 25. She was 57. Foran joined the Dearborn faculty in 2000, after serving as a faculty member at Wichita State University for more than 20 years. She wrote numerous articles in professional journals, primarily on tax-related issues in accounting. “She was an honored…