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April 16, 2001
By Mary Jo Frank, Office of the Vice President for Communications, and Diane Brown, Facilities and Operations Gifts The Regents accepted $13,278,809 in gifts, with $6,783,436 from individuals and $6,495,373 from corporations, foundations, associations and others. Tenure appointments The following tenure appointments were approved: Lillian G. Dawes, chief of general surgery at the Veterans Affairs…
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March 19, 2001
Editor’s Note: The following items were approved by the Regents at their March meeting. By Diane Brown, Facilities and Operations, and Jane R. Elgass Gifts The Regents accepted $7,911,365 in gifts, with $2,941,849 from individuals and $4,969,516 from corporations, foundations, associations and others. Tenure appointments The following tenure appointments were approved: Suresh K. Mukherji of…
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December 18, 2000
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their December meeting. All appointments are effective Jan. 1, 2001, unless otherwise noted. By Jane R. Elgass Joint degree approved A new joint Ph.D. program in public policy and social science was approved by the Regents at their December meeting. Under the auspices of…
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December 4, 2000
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their November meeting. By Mary Jo Frank, Office of the Vice President for Communications, and Jane R. Elgass Academic administrative appointments Appointment of the following academic administrators was approved: Frank P. Stafford, associate director of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) and professor of…
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October 23, 2000
Editor’s Note: The Regents approved the following items at their October meeting. By Mary Jo Frank, Office of the Vice President for Communications, and Jane R. Elgass Endowed, titled professorships Six faculty members were appointed to endowed or titled professorships. Mahdi Asgari, assistant professor of mathematics; Mark E.T. Dickinson, assistant professor of mathematics; and Thomas…
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October 2, 2000
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their September meeting. By Mary Jo Frank, Office of the Vice President for Communications, and Jane R. Elgass Building projects The following actions related to facilities projects on the Ann Arbor campus were taken by the Regents: Renovations of the C.C. Little and Pharmacy…
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September 25, 2000
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their September meeting. By Mary Jo Frank, Office of Communications, and Jane R. Elgass Department of Linguistics The Regents approved establishment of a Department of Linguistics in LS&A. LS&A created a Department of Linguistics in 1961 and it was reorganized into an interdisciplinary program…
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July 17, 2000
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their July meeting. By Jane R. Elgass Administrative appointments Stephen W. Director, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was reappointed the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering in the College of Engineering, effective July 1, 2001–June 30, 2006. Robert Jon Feigal, the Samuel…
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July 3, 2000
Athletic money woes fixable, Martin says By Jane R. Elgass The Athletic Department’s financial woes are “short-term and are challenges we can fix,” Bill Martin told the Regents at their June meeting. And meeting those challenges may come in several forms, including an increase in football ticket prices; consideration of such approaches as requiring a…
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June 19, 2000
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their June meeting. By Wono LeeNews and Information Services Administrative appointments Administrative appointments approved by the Regents included: Frederick R. Amrine, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures, was reappointed chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and…
