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February 15, 1993
Faculty and students may be returning to class the Tuesday—rather than the traditional Thursday—after Labor Day in 1994, Dean Edie N. Goldenberg told LS&A faculty members last Monday. Goldenberg added she believes a faculty and staff committee should look at the academic calendar and a number of issues related to it, including a concern among…
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February 15, 1993
Requiring LS&A students to take a good quantitative reasoning course should make things better, not harder, for students who don’t think quantitatively. At least that is the intent, Michael M. Martin, associate dean for undergraduate education, told his colleagues at LS&A’s faculty meeting last Monday. Unfortunately some see a quantitative reasoning requirement as merely a…
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February 15, 1993
Ten U-M scholars are making presentations at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting that began Feb. 11 in Boston. ‘No cradle of modern humanity’ In a paper titled “Klasies River Mouth Cave: Modern Humans or Not?” anthropologists Rachel Caspari and Milford Wolpoff reinterpret the fossil evidence from one of the most…
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February 15, 1993
The Office of the General Counsel reminds individuals with responsibility for grading students or who have access to student grades that University policies and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act protect the privacy of all student records. Information about students, including academic performance, should not be released in writing or orally unless specifically authorized…
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February 15, 1993
Sheila McLaughlin’s film She Must Be Seeing Things will be shown at 7 p.m. March 5 in Auditorium B, Angell Hall, as part of the Lesbian and Gay Film Series sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program. In the film, the strength of a love affair between two women, a lawyer and a filmmaker, is tested…
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February 15, 1993
From University Mail Service United Parcel Service (UPS) has announced new rates and services, effective today (Feb. 15). Rates —Domestic Ground service for commercial deliveries will increase by 3.8 percent and residential deliveries will increase by 7.4 percent. —Next Day Air Packages will increase by 4.9 percent. —Next Day Air Letter will increase from $10…
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February 15, 1993
During his tenure with the intercollegiate athletics program, Weidenbach expanded and strengthened its academic support program for student athletes. His work with athletic facilities included major renovations and upgrading of Michigan Stadium; renovating the women’s softball field, Yost Ice Arena, the Athletic Administration Building and the women’s gymnastics’ practice facility; and restoration of the Michigan…
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February 8, 1993
For a quarter of a century Wilfred Kaplan and other members of the U-M chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have served as a faculty resource—ready to listen to and assist with employment-related problems. Kaplan, professor emeritus of mathematics, thinks the idea of having an ombud in each school and college is…
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February 8, 1993
By Sharon Drobny Comprehensive Cancer Center Five junior investigators have joined the new Cancer Biology Training Program of the Comprehensive Cancer Center, funded by a $1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The U-M program is one of 10 nationwide funded this year, and involves 33 faculty members from 11 departments. Jeffery M.…
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February 8, 1993
The fellows were drawn to careers in science in different ways, and now are facing different challenges as female researchers. Sophia Bryant’s exposure to research began early in life when her father, a surgeon, took her to his laboratory to show her slides of blood cells. As a teenager working in a hematology laboratory during…
