Letter, 1980 May 7, from Carol Tice to Gene DeGruson

1 page, DeGruson was a Curator for the Special Collections in the Leonard H. Axe Library

Perspectives on Intergenerational Initiatives Past, Present and Future

Within the last decade, the newly crafted word intergenerational has become a familiar working term for professionals and volunteers concerned with serving children and youth. No one seems to know who originated its use, or exactly where the first programs bringing older adults and young people together for common activities and services began. One might even wonder why it became necessary for us to create social inventions to do what natural grandparents and grandchildren used to do together as a matter of course

Character Strengths and Deep Connections Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Spiritual and Secular Pathways to Resistance Among Volunteers

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/100170/1/jssr12043.pd

LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a single wide-deep-fast sky survey, and LSST will have unique survey capability in the faint time domain. The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter, taking an inventory of the Solar System, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way. LSST will be a wide-field ground-based system sited at Cerro Pach\'{o}n in northern Chile. The telescope will have an 8.4 m (6.5 m effective) primary mirror, a 9.6 deg$^2$ field of view, and a 3.2 Gigapixel camera. The standard observing sequence will consist of pairs of 15-second exposures in a given field, with two such visits in each pointing in a given night. With these repeats, the LSST system is capable of imaging about 10,000 square degrees of sky in a single filter in three nights. The typical 5$\sigma$ point-source depth in a single visit in $r$ will be $\sim 24.5$ (AB). The project is in the construction phase and will begin regular survey operations by 2022. The survey area will be contained within 30,000 deg$^2$ with $\delta<+34.5^\circ$, and will be imaged multiple times in six bands, $ugrizy$, covering the wavelength range 320--1050 nm. About 90\% of the observing time will be devoted to a deep-wide-fast survey mode which will uniformly observe a 18,000 deg$^2$ region about 800 times (summed over all six bands) during the anticipated 10 years of operations, and yield a coadded map to $r\sim27.5$. The remaining 10\% of the observing time will be allocated to projects such as a Very Deep and Fast time domain survey. The goal is to make LSST data products, including a relational database of about 32 trillion observations of 40 billion objects, available to the public and scientists around the world.Comment: 57 pages, 32 color figures, version with high-resolution figures available from https://www.lsst.org/overvie

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

Teaching-Learning Communities Records - Events - Margaret Mead Visit - Interview (Carol Tice and Margaret Mead), 1976

Interview with Margaret Mead conducted by Carol H. Tice on the occasion of Mead's 1976 visit to Ann Arbor. Includes Mead's views on the role of the elderly in society.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/110517/1/Dr_margaret_mead-1.mp4http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/110517/2/Mead_Interview.zipDescription of Dr_margaret_mead-1.mp4 : Access copy of film created by Bentley Historical Library.Description of Mead_Interview.zip : Original version of film, transferred from DVD

Lifespan Resources, Inc. Records - What We Have, 1982

Film about intergenerational learning, produced by the University of Michigan Film Unit. Highlights the unique knowledge the elderly are able to pass along to children and young adults in different educational contexts.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/110518/1/What_we_have-1.mp4http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/110518/2/What_we_have.zipDescription of What_we_have-1.mp4 : Access copy of film created by Bentley Historical LibraryDescription of What_we_have.zip : Original version of film, transferred from DVD