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October 17, 1994
The University’s 20 percent plan—in which 20 percent of energy savings for the year are returned to the schools and colleges who cut their energy costs—resulted in total savings of $1,387,435 in fiscal year 1994. “Congratulations are in order,” says David W. Anderson, coordinator of energy management. Of the total saved, $277,487 will be distributed…
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October 17, 1994
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services A $4 million federal grant, along with an additional $4.5 million from the U-M and other sponsors, will enable the University to play a major role in the national effort to develop new technologies and patterns of use for digital libraries—storehouses of information available through the Internet. Funding…
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October 17, 1994
From Wayne State University A $580,000 neighborhood empowerment plan proposed by the state’s three largest research universities—the U-M, Michigan State University and Wayne State University (WSU)—and supported by the city of Detroit has been funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The unprecedented three-university collaboration, formed at the request of Detroit Mayor…
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October 17, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle “Society sees dying as ominous and scary,” says Diane Trew, an intern at Hospice of Washtenaw. “But this is something people should talk about. Everybody asks me if it isn’t depressing working with people who are dying, but I’ve worked with victims of sexual assault and abused teens, too. Which is…
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October 17, 1994
Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, will give the Tanner Lecture on Human Values at 4 p.m. Fri. (Oct. 21) in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Kahneman’s topic is “The Cognitive Psychology of Consequences and Moral Intuition.”…
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October 17, 1994
Staff members who use the Benefits Enrollment Line (BEL) to select their benefits for 1995 will be sent a confirmation statement soon after they record their elections. Many staff members will be required to sign and return this statement by Nov. 11, 1994. The Benefits Office cannot complete the staff member’s enrollment without the signed…
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October 17, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank The U-M chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has noted a “drastic increase in the number of faculty grievances” it is receiving, according to Wilfred Kaplan. That increase is one of the reasons the local AAUP, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA) and the Academic Women’s…
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October 17, 1994
Rhetaugh G. Dumas, vice provost for health affairs, has received the Hall of Fame President’s Award from the National Women’s Hall of Fame “for achievements that are leading women into the 21st century.” The Hall of Fame noted that throughout her career, Dumas has “pioneered significant advances in nursing education and research that are having…
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October 17, 1994
The next in a series of town meetings that are related to the Michigan Agenda for Women will be held at noon, Oct. 26, in Rackham Auditorium. Featuring President James J. Duderstadt, this meeting will focus on the concerns of staff women. A similar meeting with women of color was held earlier and one for…
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October 17, 1994
By John Woodford News and Information Services Is being polite the same thing as being good? The answer in England during much of the early modern era would have been yes, at least among the middle and upper classes, says Keith Thomas, professor of history at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. Thomas, who is president…
