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November 2, 1992
By Leslie Stainton Museum of Art Clifton Olds, the Edith Cleaves Barry Professor of the History and Criticism of Art at Bowdoin College, will deliver this year’s Doris Sloan Memorial Lecture at the Museum of Art at 8 p.m. Sunday (Nov. 7) in Auditorium B, Angell Hall. Olds, who formerly was associate professor of the…
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November 2, 1992
Nursing educators and practitioners from across the country were in Ann Arbor recently to honor U.S. Rep. Carl D. Pursell, R-Plymouth, as a leading congressional advocate for nursing, health care and education. “Since 1979, when a national coalition of nursing faculty and students worked successfully with his office to spearhead a fight to protect federal…
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November 2, 1992
By Harriet Teller Michigan Radio Michigan Radio will begin its 10-day Autumn Drive on Nov. 10. This year’s drive has a goal of $160,000. While Michigan Radio is a broadcast service of the University, contributions from listeners cover almost 40 percent of the station’s operating expenses. “Fund raising is very serious business and crucial to…
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November 2, 1992
The Center for Human Growth and Development will host a symposium 1–5:30 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 4) in Rackham Amphitheater in honor of Stanley Marion Garn, who will retire in December. Garn, who joined the U-M in 1968, is professor of nutrition and of anthropology and a fellow in the center. The symposium will include a…
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November 2, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass The appointment of an 11-member advisory committee to assist in the search for a new vice president for research has been announced by President James J. Duderstadt. William C. Kelly, who has been vice president since January 1990, will retire from the post this summer. “Dr. Kelly has served the University…
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November 2, 1992
Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, authors of Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights and Taxes on American Politics, will deliver the Ben Yablonky Lecture at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Wallace House, home of the Michigan Journalism Fellows Program. Thomas Edsall has been a national political reporter at the Washington Post…
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November 2, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass Beginning Jan. 1, 1993, certain groups of graduate students will be able to enroll in a health insurance plan that has been tailored to meet their special needs. Called GradCare, the program has been developed by M-CARE and will be available on a group basis to newly appointed graduate student research…
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November 2, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass A number of visiting scholars are expected to be on campus this year under the auspices of the Visiting Scholars Program in the Office of the Vice Provost for Minority Affairs. Rumors of the death of what was called the King/Chavez/Parks Visiting Scholars Program are untrue, says Vice Provost for Minority…
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November 2, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services Cooperation between private landowners and environmentalists, mixed with “good biology,” is the formula for successful conservation, the director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service told students last week at the School of Natural Resources and Environment seminar. Also necessary are resource managers who communicate well with…
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November 2, 1992
Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang, the Samuel A. Goudsmit Visiting Professor at the U-M, will give the first Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics at 4 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 3) in Rackham Amphitheater. Yang, the Einstein Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, will discuss “Considerations on Carbon 60: Supermolecules,…
