October 20, 2003
DPS seeks witnesses Investigators in the Department of Public Safety (DPS) would like to talk with any witnesses or anyone who may have stopped to help an 18-year-old female who reported Oct. 5 that she had been pushed from behind by an unknown person. DPS issued a crime alert later that day to notify the…
October 20, 2003
G. Brymer Williams G. Brymer Williams, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, died Sept. 19, less than a month short of his 90th birthday. He was associated with the U-M chemical engineering department for 68 years, longer than anybody else. Brymer was born in Denver, where he started studying chemical engineering, but transferred to U-M in…
October 13, 2003
G. Brymer Williams G. Brymer Williams, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, died Sept. 19, less than a month short of his 90th birthday. He was associated with the U-M chemical engineering department for 68 years, longer than anybody else. Brymer was born in Denver, where he started studying chemical engineering, but transferred to U-M in…
September 22, 2003
Editor’s note: The following actions were taken by members of the Board of Regents at their September meeting. Several utilities projects approved A new chiller plant will be built on North Campus to provide chilled water for air conditioning and cooling heat-generating equipment in many buildings on the campus. The plant will provide energy savings,…
September 15, 2003
Facilities and Operations Weekend robbery in Church carport The Department of Public Safety (DPS) is looking for two men who allegedly robbed a visitor early Sept. 6 in the Church Street parking structure. The visitor, who was not injured in the incident, reported to police that he was approached around 2:30 a.m. by the suspects,…
September 15, 2003
William Byrom Dickens William Byrom Dickens, emeritus professor, died July 23 at age 96. Dickens grew up in Estill Springs, Tenn. He graduated from the University of the South in 1929 and later earned a master’s degree in English from Syracuse University, where he taught for seven years. While at Syracuse, he and a friend…
September 8, 2003
The Board of Regents will meet again on September 18. Coverage of that meeting will be available here September 22, 2003.
September 2, 2003
Patricia Fossum Waller Patricia Fossum Waller died at her home Aug. 15 at age 70, following a nine-month battle with metastatic colon cancer. Waller was trained as a clinical psychologist and had a distinguished career as a leading research scientist and advocate for policy reform in the area of transportation safety and injury control. She…
August 11, 2003
Editor’s note: The following actions were taken by members of the Board of Regents at their July meeting. Sleep Disorders Center to double The Sleep Disorders Center (SDC) of the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers (UMHHC) will expand to an off-site location, doubling capacity from nine beds to 18. The SDC evaluates patients with known…
August 11, 2003
Student arrested for computer crimes A 24-year-old graduate student was arraigned Aug. on 23 counts of computer crimes. Ning Ma is accused of unlawfully attaining the usernames and passwords of more than 60 U-M students and professors from August 2002 through April 2003, according to the complaint filed by the State Attorney General’s Office. He…
