Campus Notes

Symposium discusses new technology

The University's Center for Integrated Microsystems is cosponsoring the Sixth Annual Strategic and Technical Symposium of the Metro Detroit Chapter Society for Information Display on Wednesday and Thursday.

Symposium topics include an update on flat panel display markets, the application of aerospace display technology to vehicles and microelectronic and micromachine applications in vehicles. University and industry researchers from Delphi-Delco, DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, Lear Corporation, Philips, Visteon, Dow Chemical, the Air Force Research Lab and several universities including the University of Michigan.

The symposium is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. both days at the Ypsilanti Marriott located on Huron Street near I-94. For more information contact the University's Center for Integrated Microsystems at 734-936-0982.

University Library to hold book sale

The University Library System will hold a public book sale Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the atrium of the Shapiro Undergraduate Library. The sale features books on history, philosophy and religion. Hard cover books will be available for $1 each and paperback books will be available for $0.50 each.

The library will also be holding a trivia contest to identify the correct University building inscribed with the phrase, "In darkness dwells the people which knows its annals not."

Two winners will be chosen from those who can correctly identify the building to receive a gift certificate for $5 good toward a purchase at the library's next sale.

Smithsonian to award 'U' projects

Computerworld Smithsonian Awards will recognize 14 University projects that use technology in innovative ways in a special ceremony Wednesday.

University president Lee Bollinger, Chief Information Officer Jose-Marie Griffiths and Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Director Dan Morrow are scheduled to speak at the 3 p.m. ceremony in the Koessler Room of the Michigan League, with a reception afterward.

Study examines effects of domestic abuse

The Center for the Education of Women is holding a research presentation by doctoral student Julie Eastin and Associate Professor Sandra Graham-Bermann.

The topic is "Research in Progress: The impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Children and Its Relationship To Emotional Abuse Among Siblings. The presentation is scheduled for Monday Sept. 27 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the CEW Conference Room, located at 330 East Liberty.

Alumni magazine features cinema

The fall issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review is now available to purchase.

The issue places a focus on cinema, which includes University alum and screen-writer Lawrence Kasdan's 1999 Hopwood lecture, an essay by art history prof. Rudolf Arnheim, an essay by assistant prof. of film and video Catherine Benamou and works by authors Tennessee Williams and Joyce Carol Oates.

The MQR is available for purchase for $5 for a single issue, or $18 for a year subscription. Contact MQR Room 3032 in the Rackham Building for more information.

- Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Lindsey Alpert.

09-20-99

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