With the new Course Offering Directory out last Friday, students are beginning to select classes for the spring semester.
The Educational Testing Service announced a new test for measuring college-student learning Monday, but University officials said they have not yet determined whether the test will be utilized here. The Measure of Academic Proficiency and Progress will take the place of the Academic Profile, a similar test that was jointly owned by ETS and the College Board.
Terry Belanger, a history and engineering professor and honorary curator of the Special Collections Library, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship yesterday. The award grants five-year fellowships to those who exhibit "exceptional merit and promise of continued and enhanced creative work" and includes a $500,000 stipend, according to the MacArthur Foundation. Belanger's MacArthur Fellowship is the first to be awarded to a University Professor since 2002.
The University Health System will accept an award today for creating programs to ease communication between doctors and patients with communication barriers. The award, which will be presented by the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association, is the latest honor to give the Health System national recognition. Claudette Dalton, lead physician for the patient communication project, said the initiative was created to address the needs of a large portion of the University Health System clientele.
