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September 21, 1992
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Srvices Two years ago, the Women’s Studies Program launched an ambitious lecture series, “Feminist Scholarship: Thinking Through the Disciplines,” which drew 14 nationally recognized feminist scholars to the University. Faculty and graduate students from 10 LS&A departments attended the lectures and met formally and informally with the scholars. So,…
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September 21, 1992
The University has received a $5.5 million gift from the Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Company—one of the largest single contributions in the University’s history—to support medical and scientific research in the Medical School, College of Pharmacy and Department of Chemistry. $3.6 million of the gift will be used to establish three endowed professorships—the Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professorship in Chemistry and…
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September 21, 1992
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Using a new research facility that will generate the brightest beams of high-energy X-rays ever produced, a team of scientists from the U-M and AT&T Bell Laboratories will be able to watch chemical reactions and biological processes as they occur. The U-M/AT&T team is one of the first…
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September 21, 1992
The first in this year’s series of “Conversations with President Duderstadt,” designed to help inform the University and greater Ann Arbor communities about strategic issues affecting the U-M, will air on Ann Arbor Community Access TV (Channels 9) seven times over the next two weeks. This first program will focus on research issues and, in…
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September 21, 1992
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services Does the so-called “midlife crisis” really exist, or is it just a myth with a catchy name? According to U-M and Cornell University researchers who study adult psychological development, “midlife turning points” is a more accurate label and, yes, these really do exist and can have a profound…
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September 21, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass Remember those notes you took at a meeting on your feelings about a sensitive issue and tucked under some papers in your top drawer instead of in a file so they wouldn’t be subjected to public scrutiny? Sorry. That tactic won’t work. Under the state’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), enacted…
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September 21, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services On the first day of fall, hundreds of writers in dozens of cities across the country will give public readings to raise money to fight hunger, homelessness and illiteracy. In a related event here, English Profs. Charles M. Baxter, Nicholas F. Delbanco and Richard W. Tillinghast will read…
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September 21, 1992
Virginia B. Nordby, who has held a number of posts in the University over the past 19 years, has announced that she will retire at the end of June 1993. She currently is the University’s chief freedom of information officer and has been an associate vice president for student affairs since January 1991. In addition,…
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September 21, 1992
The Turner Geriatric Clinic has received a grant from the Area Agency on Aging 1B to conduct living histories with older adults (ages 60 and over), with an emphasis on African-American senior citizens to chronicle the lives of older adults and how they have coped with life’s struggles. African-American senior citizens have been matched with…
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September 21, 1992
About 25 FOIA requests are logged with Nordby each month. About one-fourth of them come from students, faculty, the Michigan Daily and the Michigan Review. “The largest number are from the media and within that group the majority are from sports writers seeking information about the Athletic Department.” She says major newspapers, such as the…
