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April 12, 1993
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services The University’s student newspaper and yearbook have been named among the top college student publications in the country by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA). The Michigan Daily is one of six college student newspapers to receive the Gold Crown Award, CSPA’s top honor. The Michiganensian, the student…
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April 12, 1993
By Kathy Hulik School of Business Administration Consumers Power has announced a grant of $100,000 to the School of Business Administration toward the creation of a new Corporate Environmental Management Program. The five-year grant from the Consumers Power Foundation, the utility’s philanthropic arm, continues Consumers Power’s long tradition of support for the University, which has…
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April 12, 1993
Members of the Initiative on Alcohol and Other Drugs encourage individuals who received the survey on alcohol and other drugs to complete it and return it in the postage-paid envelope. “If there are questions you prefer not to answer, please skip them. We need your response,” explains Initiative member and survey designer Andrea Foote. “You…
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April 12, 1993
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services There are some striking parallels between Eleanor Roosevelt, who entered the White House in 1933, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, who moved in 60 years later. “Each was attacked and mocked in the press, but refused to be silent,” said Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of the controversial but highly…
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April 12, 1993
“In terms of general resources on both academic and work programs and other experiential programs, the Michigan office is as good as it gets,” says William Hoffa, editor of the Guide to Education Abroad for Advisers and Administrators. The book includes an article by William E. Nolting, director of the Overseas International Opportunities Office in…
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April 5, 1993
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services More than 30 years ago, Matina Horner and her husband came to town as U-M graduate students. She entered psychology and he went into physics. In 1969, they left for Harvard with Ph.D.s. In the interim, “three kids and two dissertations were born.” Her dissertation was the first…
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April 5, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services U-M chemists have synthesized the world’s largest pure hydrocarbon molecule—a gargantuan sphere with 100 times the volume of a buckyball and big enough to hold 1,000 carbon atoms with room to spare. Comprised of 1,134 carbon atoms and 1,146 hydrogen atoms, the mammoth molecule has a molecular weight…
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April 5, 1993
IF the Wolverines won their Final Four NCAA game on Saturday, fans will be able to watch the basketball team play at 8 p.m. tonight (April 5) on big screen TVs at Crisler Arena. Admission is free, on a first-come, first-served basis. The viewing and other activities, Michigan Madness ’93, have been organized by the…
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April 5, 1993
Harry A. Towsley, professor emeritus of pediatrics and communicable diseases and of postgraduate medicine, died March 31 at his home in Ann Arbor. He was 87. When he retired from the U-M in 1971, Towsley’s record of accomplishments in pediatric medicine was described by the Board of Regents as “truly astonishing in its scope.” When…
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April 5, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank “The best teaching, the teaching that has the greatest effect on students not just for the moment but in the long run, is by dedicated researchers who take their classroom responsibilities seriously and know how to convey information and the results of research and to stimulate critical thinking.” History Prof. Sidney…
