Ancient Spells and Magic Amulets
Marcus Aurelius may have spoken for official Rome when he wrote in his Meditations that he had learned "to be skeptical of wizards and wonder-workers with their tales of spells, exorcism and the like." But it's likely that while he was scribbling away, someone in his household was slipping out the door to visit the neighborhood magician.

Physicist Homer A. Neal is U-M's interim president
Homer A. Neal, '63 MS, '66 PhD, professor of physics and vice president for research at the University of Michigan, will assume the interim presidency of the University on July 1, the day after President James. J. Duderstadt's retirement.

Frey Foundation brings banking/finance expert to Michigan
An endowed professorship established by the Frey Foundation at the University of Michigan Business School has gone to Anjan Thakor, one of the country's most prominent experts on banking strategy and regulation as well as on key aspects of finance.

A Feast for the Eyes
If the Museum staff could get people half as excited about our painting by Guercino as the Zingerman's staff can about their latest wheel of farmhouse cheddar, we will have accomplished something," said William Hennessey, director of U-M's Museum of Art (UMMA). And with the advice of Ann Arbor's famous deli, that is just what the staff, volunteers and docents at the UMMA intend to do.

Forecasters identify auto industry tasks
"Automobile manufacturers and suppliers expect an increased reliance on technology to enhance design and manufacturing efficiency," write David E. Cole, director of the Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation at the U-M Transportation Research Institute, and Gerald F. Londal, a retired General Motors Corp. engineering manager.

Distance Voting
While the results of a February special US Senate election in Oregon have a direct impact on the residents of that state, the way in which voters cast their ballots in that race may have a greater effect on the nation as a whole, say Michigan researchers.

John Cashman '66---Test Pilot of the 21st Century Jet
As a boy, John Cashman went out on a limb for his love of flying. "I jumped out of trees while holding wings, little wings that didn't work," he recalls in his Seattle office.

The Night Joanne Died
It was an ordinary day; no premonition of danger, no sense of something wrong. I came home from teaching around ten at night and the phone rang. My aunt was calling: your cousin has been murdered.

'Last Night We Burned Regent McIntyre in Effigy'
History has always been my background," Robert Warner chuckles. And the history of the University of Michigan, he points out, is in every student's and graduate's background. "We're all part of a very long and interesting tradition."

Campaigning for Hill
$20 Million Dollar Fundraising Effort to Refurbish an Architectural Treasure

Tempests Into Rainbows
Excerpts from the autobiography of Robben W. Fleming

Over There: Students of Color Abroad
Several students from minority backgrounds reported on their experiences overseas during the University's Martin Luther King Jr. observances in January.

From Frederick Douglass to the Commitments
Few Americans now remember or are taught that in 1845, the year of first publication of his celebrated autobiography, Frederick Douglass made a five-week lecture tour of Ireland.