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January 25, 1993
School of Music Dean Paul C. Boylan will discuss “Artists in the Academy” at 4 p.m. today (Jan. 25) in Rackham Amphitheater as part of the Presidential Lecture Series on Academic Values planned in conjunction with the University’s 175th anniversary. A reception will follow in Assembly Hall. President James J. Duderstadt will moderate a panel…
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January 25, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services A multidisciplinary team of U-M researchers has been awarded $3.9 million in National Science Foundation funding over five years to develop a new type of computer and communications technology called a research “collaboratory.” A combination of “collaboration” and “laboratory,” the U-M project will merge advanced NeXT computer systems…
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January 25, 1993
The concept of a collaboratory was discussed by President James J. Duderstadt last fall in an address to the Senate Assembly on “Redrawing the Boundaries.” In his address, he explored ways in which “we can provide an environment on this campus that responds adequately to the dramatic intellectual changes occurring in the nature of teaching…
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January 25, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services The civil rights movement of the 1990s must shift its focus to one of quiet reflection and emotional healing, says author Bebe Moore Campbell. “We must love ourselves back to emotional health first and economic well-being will follow,” Campbell told an audience of about 500 who attended her…
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January 25, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Punishing incidents of racial insensitivity on college campuses makes moral sense, says philosopher Anita Allen. Allen, associate professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and a U-M alumna, discussed “Why Punish Demeaning Expression,” at a Department of Philosophy Martin Luther King Jr. Day program. Using a 1991 “Ugly Woman Contest”…
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January 25, 1993
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services In the mid-1960s, the Parker family became one of the few African American families in Little Rock, Ark., to send most of its 11 children to college. “How can you afford to pay their tuitions and lose their help in the fields?” neighbors asked the Parkers, who were…
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January 25, 1993
By Ryan Solomon News and Information Services Martin Luther King Jr. should be thought of as an economist as much as a minister or civil rights leader, says economist and writer Julianne Malveaux. Malveaux spoke at the closing ceremony marking the U-M’s sixth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium. The San Francisco Sun reporter,…
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January 25, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass “We are now part way across the street trying to get to the other side and there are lots of trucks going in both directions.” That was how President James J. Duderstadt characterized the University’s progress in reaching the goals of the Michigan Mandate at last week’s Regents’ meeting. His remarks…
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January 25, 1993
By John Woodford Executive Editor, Michigan Today Carol Ann Carter, associate professor of art, told the 65 attendees that the format chosen for the School of Art’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day program “might seem too ’60s, like a sensitivity session, but we’re trying to show the parts that make the whole.” The School’s informal…
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January 25, 1993
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services The utopian quest for physical perfection will be the topic of “The Utopian Body: Medicine, Technology, and Ethics,” a conference sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities on Saturday (Jan. 30) in the Assembly Hall, Rackham Building. The free, public conference will bring specialists in medicine and the…
