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January 10, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle The President’s Advisory Commission on Women’s Issues has issued a summary report of responses from senior women faculty to questions about the environment at the U-M and what they perceive to be barriers or supportive structures in that environment. Twenty-four senior women faculty responded to the invitation to participate in focus…
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January 10, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services The second of a special two-part Michigan Quarterly Review (MQR) devoted to the male body is now available. The winter 1994 edition contains essays, fiction, poetry and graphics examining male sexuality; body image; aging; puberty; AIDS; and the male body in contemporary art, science fiction and Hollywood cinema.…
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December 6, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services If spiders and silkworms could talk, U-M scientist David Martin has a few questions he’d like to ask. For instance, how and why does a spider change the consistency and chemical structure of its web? How do substances like salt and water cross the membrane barrier into a…
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December 6, 1993
The U-M Press has established the Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET). The society will acquire, produce and disseminate scholarly electronic editions of Old Norse, Old English and Middle English texts. According to U-M Press editor Ellen Bauerle, “SEENET will combine the full capacities of computer technology with the highest standards of…
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December 6, 1993
Gov. John M. Engler will be the main speaker at the University’s winter commencement on Sunday (Dec. 12). Engler and three others—Carl A. Gerstacker, Elie Wiesel and Roger W. Wilkins—will receive honorary degrees. Gerstacker, Wiesel and Wilkins will make brief remarks. Some 2,000 students on the Ann Arbor campus expect their degrees this winter. The…
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December 6, 1993
A subcommittee of the University’s Alcohol and Other Drugs Policy Council is working on changes to the University smoking policy that will make the U-M a smoke-free campus. The group’s study of the issue is prompted by new concerns about the health hazards of environmental tobacco smoke. The council reports to George D. Zuidema, vice…
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December 6, 1993
This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemoration (Jan. 17) will incorporate activities under the theme of “American Culture or America the Multicultural?” Units planning events must submit information to Michael Jones-Coleman, MLK Day coordinator, by Dec. 15 to ensure inclusion in the Record’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day calendar, which will be published Jan.…
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December 6, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass The addition of three new senior faculty members to the Department of Statistics this fall will further strengthen its teaching and research in applied statistics, and create new opportunities for interdisciplinary work with other U-M units. The new faculty members are Roderick J.A. Little, professor of statistics, and Vijayan N. Nair…
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December 6, 1993
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services Kristine Gebbie, the Clinton administration’s national AIDS policy coordinator, encountered courteous but passionate desperation among listeners who attended her talk on federal AIDS policy last Thursday night. Gebbie was on campus for events related to World AIDS Day. Her talk was sponsored by the Public Health Student Association.…
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December 6, 1993
The Omnibus Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1993 will affect two areas of tax administration, effective Jan. 1. The changes, explained below, will impact some types of payments made on Form G or Special Payment Forms. Taxation of supplemental salary payments Supplemental salary payments will be taxed at 28 percent. State and FICA (Social Security) tax…
