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January 18, 1993
Commitment to Collaboration: Toward a Detroit Initiative for the University of Michigan By Barry N. Checkoway Professor of Social Work and of Urban, Technological and Urban Planning University and Community The University of Michigan—created by the state, designated to receive resources from public taxation, and mandated to account to the public through its Board of…
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January 18, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Senate Assembly members are moving ahead with two plans to evaluate high ranking University administrators. Two resolutions—one calling for periodic reviews of executive offices every five to seven years and the other for annual evaluations of deans and Executive Officers—were approved at the Assembly’s December meeting. The individual evaluations would be…
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January 18, 1993
New computer software providing geographic information beneficial for product marketing, regional planning, emergency preparedness and transportation planning, among other uses, is being developed as a demonstration application by the Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI) and the Open Software Foundation (OSF). The U-M’s bid was the only one accepted for OSF funding. The software is…
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January 18, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Robert L. Robb, the newly hired director of the Intellectual Properties Office (IPO), is looking for researchers who share his vision and enthusiasm for the benefits technology transfer can bring to the University and to the local economy. “One of the inherent charters of all institutions of higher…
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January 18, 1993
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services The “architectural fantasies” of Iakov Chernikhov, on display in the Rackham Galleries through Feb. 1, are not plans for buildings as much as they are proposals for a new world of architectural form and a new language of vision. Chernikhov was a leading architect, graphic artist, theorist and…
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January 18, 1993
The University has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice regarding inadvertent overcharges for federally funded research use of the U-M’s academic mainframe computer, the Michigan Terminal System (MTS). The University will pay the government $2.8 million for inadvertently overcharging researchers on federal grants for…
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January 11, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank A mailer’s worst nightmare: carefully crafted letters flowing aimlessly in the land of the undeliverable, doomed to never reach the students, parents, graduates or donors to whom they are addressed. Unfortunately approximately one out of three business letters nationally is undeliverable as addressed because of errors in addressing, the addressee has…
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January 11, 1993
Fire in a telecommunication closet at the School of Dentistry on Dec. 29 caused an estimated $150,000 damage to computer equipment, cables and fiberoptics, according to G. Paul Moggach of the Office of Risk Management and Richard R. Darr, manager of Telecommunication Operations. The fire started when molten metal and sparks from torches that were…
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January 11, 1993
“People just don’t understand that something as simple as an ear infection in childhood can affect a child’s whole life,” says third-year medical student Kevin N. Hibbert. “A child who can’t hear may not learn to speak or will learn slowly. Then he is labeled a `problem child’ in school, may not graduate and may…
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January 11, 1993
The nine-member Information Technology Policy Committee (ITPC) has been in existence since 1987, succeeding the 110–120-member Computing Policy Committee. Advisory to the vice provost for information technology, the group develops recommendations for Universitywide policies and strategic directions in the area of information technology. Members of the group represent the campus as a whole, rather than…
