SUMMARY Alan Cheuse was a novelist, book reviewer, memoirist, and professor of creative writing at George Mason University. A native of New Jersey, he authored several novels, collections of short fiction, a memoir, and personal essays. As a book reviewer, he was a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s
All Things Considered since the 1980s. His criticism reflected the strengths of his fiction: a careful attention to voice and character that embodies both the influences of other notable writers and his own distinctive sense of whimsy. He died in 2015 from injuries sustained in a car accident.
Cheuse was born on January 23, 1940, in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, the son of a Russian immigrant father and a mother of Russian-Romanian descent. He was educated at Perth Amboy High School (1957) and Rutgers University (BA, 1961; PhD in Comparative Literature, 1974), where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the life and work of the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier. Cheuse taught
Ford expands robotics research into $75 million University of Michigan facility
Ford Motor Company will be embedding 100 of its researchers and engineers in a new $75 million robotics and mobility facility on the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus.
This is not the first collaboration between the automaker and the university. Ford is UM’s single largest corporate donor and the two entities have previously teamed up to open the UM Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicles. But this is the first time Ford is co-locating part of its team on a university campus.
Ford clarified to TechCrunch that the arrangement is not an incubator, but “an extension of our global research and advanced engineering network.”
UM-Flint will be ‘back to normal’ in fall while maintaining safety protocols, chancellor says
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
Posted Mar 11, 2021
Cora Hensler, an 18-year-old Saginaw freshman studying actuarial mathematics, works her shift at a health-screening location for COVID-19 protocols at the entrance of the expansion to the William R. Murchie Science Building at University of Michigan-Flint in Flint. (Jake May | MLive.com)Jake May | Mlive.com
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FLINT, MI Chancellor Deba Dutta is confident the University of Michigan-Flint will be “back to normal” for students this fall.
While stressing that the campus will maintain safety protocols in alignment with state and CDC guidelines, Dutta told MLive-The Flint Journal Wednesday, March 10, the university is excited to bring students back to in-person, full-time class.
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