September 13, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass “Lighten up and learn to enjoy this place.” “Inject a a bit of adventure in what you do.” “The feelings of anxiety that you have are those you should have at the beginning of a new phase of your life.” “Take some risks.” “Let yourself learn about all the ways your…
September 13, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass Though complimented on the outstanding records of achievement they have brought to campus, members of the class of 1997 were told last week by President James J. Duderstadt that despite their obvious academic talents, they “will be greatly challenged by this University. “Nobody ever said that a Michigan education is easy.…
September 13, 1993
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services A new Program in British Studies has been established at the University. The program, directed by history Prof. Michael P. MacDonald, will be supported by funds from the Office of International Academic Affairs and a gift from Sydney L. Mayer. MacDonald is the author of Mystical Bedlam: Madness,…
September 13, 1993
The Regents approved establishment of two professorships at their July meeting—the H. Marvin Pollard Professorship in Gastroenterology and the Amnon Rosenthal Collegiate Professorship in Pediatric Cardiology. The Pollard professorship has been endowed through a $1.2 million gift from the Shirley M. McLaughlin Trust. “Beginning in 1970 when she was referred to the U-M Hospitals, Mrs.…
September 7, 1993
Provost Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr. will recommend to the Regents at their September meeting that Susan S. Lipschutz be named associate provost. If approved, Lipschutz will assume her new position Nov. 1. She now is assistant vice provost for academic affairs and senior associate dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies. She…
September 7, 1993
The University Record begins its 1993–94 publication schedule today (Sept. 7). Published by the Office of News and Information Services, the Record is distributed each Monday September–May, except during holiday periods, and biweekly June–August. As the University’s official publication, the Record carries articles of interest to faculty, staff and retirees, and letters to the editor…
September 7, 1993
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services The nation’s population has become more geographically polarized along racial and socioeconomic lines during the past decade, according to a U-M study. It also identifies the pathways of modern migrants—players in a contemporary version of The Grapes of Wrath. The study, presented Aug. 10 at the Joint Statistical…
September 7, 1993
Editor’s Note: The following books have been published by the U-M-Press. Palimpsest: Editorial Theory in the Humanities edited by English Profs. George Bornstein and Ralph G. Williams. This is the latest volume in our Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism series. Palimpsest assembles an extraordinarily distinguished group of leading practitioners and theorists, who examine editing in…
September 7, 1993
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services Newlyweds who tell the story of their romance as a duet, giving each other equal time to perform variations on themes, are still likely to be much in love three years later. These shared marriage narratives are at the “heart of marriage building,” explain U-M research psychologists, “because…
September 7, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Scientists at the Biological Station report that rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) produce fundamental changes not only in plant growth rates, but also in microorganisms living in the soil and in the levels of carbon and nitrogen deposited in the soil. Results of their experiment were…
