October 31, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank As a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) volunteer at the SOS Community Crisis Center, Sandy Haas distributed food to the hungry, found shelter for the homeless, did crisis counseling and even hung gutters. Seven years later, Haas, academic secretary in the Fellowships Office of the Horace H. Rackham School of…
October 31, 1994
Basu wins National and Peace Fellowship Susanto Basu, assistant professor of economics, has received a post-doctoral National and Peace Fellowship from the Hoover Institution for 1994–95. The fellowships provide scholars an opportunity to spend one year at the Hoover Institution to conduct independent research on historical and public policy issues of the 20th century. Thiele…
October 24, 1994
In light of the recent assault and rape near Community High School, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center offers the following tips for those who walk alone: When walking or running in a remote or secluded area, try to go as part of a group. If you wear a portable stereo, keep the volume…
October 24, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Responsibility Center Management (RCM) won’t bring revolutionary change to the University, predicts Oscar A. Barbarin. But it should give individual units and the University more authority to make rational decisions about how to deploy human and financial resources, Barbarin told Senate Assembly members last Monday. Barbarin, professor of social work and…
October 24, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services The role of religion, spirituality and ethics in the life and mission of the University will be addressed in a “Day of Dialogue” at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday (Oct. 26) at the Michigan League’s Hussey Room. The free, public conference will feature presentations by President James J. Duderstadt; Regent…
October 24, 1994
Nobel Laureate Joseph H. Taylor will deliver the third annual Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics at 4 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 27) in Rackham Amphitheater. He will speak on “Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity.” Taylor is the James McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. Of Taylor’s discovery of the first binary pulsar, for…
October 24, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Servcies Alumnus Benjamin S. Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, will deliver the first “Spotlight on African American Alumni” lecture at 7 p.m. Thurs. (Oct. 27) at Hale Auditorium. Carson, who has a bachelor’s degree from Yale and a medical degree from the U-M, will…
October 24, 1994
Is it a sculpture? A stage set? A costume? Or all three? Children can find out at “Shaping Space through Sculpture and Dance,” a Children’s Art Museum Program workshop that will be held 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Saturday. (Oct. 29) at the Museum of Art. Children will be able to watch Noguchi’s famous “spider dress” for…
October 24, 1994
By Sage Arron Two classic plays will be performed later this month by The Aquila Theatre Company of London at the Trueblood Theatre in the Frieze Building. Aristophanes’ Wasps will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday (Oct. 26), and Sophocles’ Philoctetes will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday (Oct. 27). A free symposium,…
October 24, 1994
University officials urged the state government to “begin reversing the downward trend in the real value of its appropriation” to the University. The state funding for the U-M Ann Arbor campus has “failed to keep up with inflation as measured by the Higher Education Price Index, so that the purchasing power of the appropriation has…
