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January 18, 1993
The Mona A. East Book Endowment Fund has been established in honor of the late librarian who was affiliated with the University Library for 40 years. East joined the U-M in 1945 as a junior order librarian, searching book lists and handling gifts, duplications and filing. When she retired in 1985 she was assistant director…
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January 18, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass A 1988 commitment of funds for programs and scholarships and the hiring of full-time coaching staff for women’s athletics is beginning to pay off, the Regents were told at their December meeting. “The Michigan tradition and model in athletics is very, very special,” said President James J. Duderstadt in opening a…
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January 18, 1993
Medzihradsky receives Fogarty International Fellowship Fedor Medzihradsky, professor of biological chemistry and of pharmacology, has received a Fogarty Senior International Fellowship to carry out sabbatical research on protein-lipid interaction in neural cell membranes at the universities of Utrecht and Wageningen in the Netherlands. Horne heads orientation group Pam Horne, director of orientation and the Campus…
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January 18, 1993
By Leslie Stainton Museum of Art The Museum of Art will present the second concert in its 1992–93 Chamber Concert Season at 8 p.m. Thursday (Jan. 21), in the Apse. “The Museum Chamber Strings: In an English Garden” complements the special exhibition “The Cultivated Image: Garden Photographs by Michael Kenna.” The concert features a program…
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January 18, 1993
A new exhibit, “Tale of Two Lakes: Aquatic Studies by John and Donna Lehman,” is on display in the Exhibit Museum Rotunda. The display highlights some of the research of John T. Lehman, professor of biology and research scientist, Center for Great Lakes and Aquatic Sciences, and Donna Lehman, natural science research associate, Department of…
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January 18, 1993
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services The School of Education has received an $829,584 grant from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund to support the School’s Peace Corps Fellows/USA Program. The four-year grant was announced Jan. 12 in Washington, D.C., by Barbara Zartman, acting director of the Peace Corps, and Mildred Hudson, educational program officer…
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January 18, 1993
From the School of Business Administration Students and faculty using the Kresge Business Administration Library now can search the catalog online through MENTOR. MENTOR (Michigan Electronic Network to Online Resources) provides call number and bibliographic information on books, periodicals, working papers and dissertations available in the library’s extensive collection. The collection includes 115,000 volumes catalogued…
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January 18, 1993
From the Payroll Office Form W-2 Wage and Tax Statements for 1992 will be mailed this week to University regular and part-time employees who received earnings in 1992. Listings for federal and state taxable wages will exclude any tax-deferred retirement contributions. However, such contributions were subject to Social Security and Medicare tax and therefore are…
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January 18, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services U-M astronomers analyzing X-ray emissions from NGC 891, a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way, have found the first direct evidence for the existence of active “weather” patterns or giant galactic storms. These violent storms take place in the galactic halo—a diffuse cloud of gas molecules…
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January 18, 1993
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services Waltraud and Heinz Prechter, through the World Heritage Foundation, have made a $500,000 grant to the School of Education. The grant will be used to establish the Prechter Laboratory for Interactive Technology. The laboratory will be used to design and create highly sophisticated interactive educational materials and will…
