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April 26, 1993
The next program in a series of “Conversations with the President” will air on Cable Access Channel 9 in early May. This program will focus on student athletes, covering such topics as life as a student athlete, balancing athletics and academics, how the University has prepared them for the future, and their future plans. Participants,…
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April 26, 1993
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services While the grassy slopes of Nichols Arboretum will always be a favorite public flopping place, many Arboretum visitors prefer a drier, firmer surface on which to rest, study, eat lunch or just relax and enjoy nature. The answer to their need is a prototype bench, now under construction…
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April 26, 1993
‘Budget consistent with earlier blueprints’ By Laurie Fenlason Office of Federal Relations While he’s unwilling to declare any book weighing five pounds and containing 1,400+ pages “free of surprises,” Tom Butts describes President Bill Clinton’s proposed 1994 budget as “consistent with earlier administration blueprints.” (And that’s the good news.) “Trying to effect deficit reduction, while…
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April 19, 1993
By Rebecca A. Doyle “Each one of us here tonight represents hundreds of other students who are doing this kind of thing,” said Jennifer Bastress, a senior in the School of Nursing and one of four recipients of the Faculty Award for Distinguished Student Community Service Learning. Of the 20 students nominated, Bastress; Joel F.…
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April 19, 1993
Four College of Engineering faculty members have been named to endowed professorships: Yoram Koren, professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics, also will hold the Paul G. Goebel Professorship of Engineering. Fawwaz T. Ulaby, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, also will be the R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering. Kensall D.…
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April 19, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank As homework assignments go, it’s a tough one: create courses in the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities to meet a proposed new quantitative reasoning requirement for all LS&A students. The courses must be intellectually rigorous yet attractive enough to entice the 25 percent of LS&A students who systematically avoid math.…
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April 19, 1993
Student tickets for the University of Michigan spring commencement May 1 at Michigan Stadium will be distributed beginning April 26. Commencement ceremonies featuring first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as speaker will start at 11 a.m. All persons attending must have tickets to enter the stadium. The all-University program will be open to graduating students from…
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April 19, 1993
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services The University has received a $1.35 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to expand and enhance a watershed studies program that links secondary school students and teachers throughout the world. The three-year grant will enable the Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN) to develop the Teacher…
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April 19, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass While many people believe there has been a great deal of progress in enhancing the status of underrepresented minorities since the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, this is not the case, according to Harold R. Johnson, special counsel to the president. In fact, Johnson says, he has a “passionate concern…
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April 19, 1993
Karl E. Weick, the Rensis Likert Collegiate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology in the School of Business Administration, will give the 21st annual Katz Newcomb Lecture in Social Psychology at 4 p.m. Friday (April 23) in Rackham Amphitheater. In his lecture “ ‘Young Men and Fire’—Rethinking Organizational Theory,” Weick will discuss how assumptions often…
