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November 23, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass Several Regents last week expressed their frustration with the search process for the selection of the new U-M-Dearborn chancellor. The Regents were not part of the process. Noting that they had no quarrel with the selection of James C. Renick, they commented on the constraints imposed by the Open Meetings Act.…
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November 23, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass Persons of color now comprise 12.9 percent of the Ann Arbor campus instructional staff following another year of growth in minority numbers reported in this fall’s faculty racial profile. Growth in minority faculty continues to be steady, though not at the high rates experienced in the late 1980s. While more new…
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November 23, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services A vastly transformed Undergraduate Library will house the University’s new Science Library: a consolidation of all science collections on campus, with the exception of engineering and medical sciences. Museums collections will remain where they are. The Regents last week approved the design of a $6.85 million addition to…
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November 23, 1992
John H. D’Arms, vice provost for academic affairs and dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, will discuss “Ar duous, Pleasant and Hopeful toil: Values in and Beyond Graduate Education” at 4 p.m. Dec. 8 in Rackham Ampitheater. D’Arms is also the Gerald F. Else Professor of Classical Studies and professor of…
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November 23, 1992
CARMEL, the U-M’s prize-winning robot, was a cross-disciplinary project between College of Engineering departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. CARMEL’s ultrasonic avoidance sensing system was developed by Yoram Koren, professor ofmechanical engineering and applied mechanics, and Johann Borenstein, U-M assistant research scientist.
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November 23, 1992
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services Adoption often is hailed as a perfect solution. It gives the child the parents he needs and the parents a child to love. “But while adoption meets real social and personal needs, it simultaneously denies the child’s and the adoptive parents’ deeply held, unrealized wishes,” says Elinor B.…
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November 23, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass In a 6-2 vote last week the Board of Regents approved implementation on an interim basis of “The University of Michigan’s Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities,” effective Jan. 1 for one year. It will be reevaluated in February 1994. Regents Deane Baker and Veronica Latta Smith opposed adoption of the…
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November 23, 1992
By Mary Jo Frank Achieving an appropriate balance between rigid academic disciplines and riskier interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship is one of the major challenges facing the modern university, according to President James J. Duderstadt. Speaking to Senate Assembly Nov. 16 on “Redrawing the Boundaries: Developing a Structure for the New Intellectual Realities”, Duderstadt said that…
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November 23, 1992
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) and LS&A have awarded the 1992–93 CRLT-LS&A Postdoctoral Fellowships to nine assistant professors to help them devote time to develop courses that they then will teach. “The awards give some counterweight to the pressure junior faculty feel to focus…
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November 23, 1992
Ninety-eight Rackham Merit Fellows, the largest number of students as a group to achieve candidacy in their pursuit of doctoral degrees, were honored at a reception last week at the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies last week. Warren H. Whatley, associate dean for graduate recruitment and support, congratulated the fellows on “achieving this…
