Four new members to join SACUA May 1

At their meeting March 19 at Palmer Commons, Senate Assembly members elected M. Robert Fraser, librarian, Mardigian Library,
U-M-Dearborn; Richard Friedman, the Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law in the Law School; Wayne Stark, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering (CoE); and Michael Thouless, professor of mechanical engineering and professor of materials science and engineering, CoE.

Friedman chose to fill the remaining year in the unexpired term of Brett Seabury, associate professor of social work, who is leaving SACUA. The other three faculty members elected to SACUA will serve three-year terms. All four begin serving May 1.

Addressing Senate Assembly representatives before the vote, Freidman pledged to seek "creative, analytical solutions to the very complex problems we face."

The new SACUA board members replace Seabury; Semyon Meerkov, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, C0E; Bruno Giordani, associate professor of psychiatry in the Medical School and associate professor of psychology, LSA; and Michael Combi, distinguished research scientist in the Space Physics Research lab and research professor in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, CoE.

Remaining on SACUA for 2007-08 are current Chair Dr. Charles Smith, professor of pharmacology, School of Pharmacy; Bruce Frier, the Frank O. Copley Collegiate Professor of classics and Roman law, LSA, and Henry King Ransom Professor of Law; Barbara MacAdam, librarian and head, reference and instruction, University Library; David Potter, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Greek and Latin, LSA; and Keith Riles, professor of physics, LSA.

Vote totals were 36 for Friedman, 35 each for Fraser and Thouless, and 31 for Stark. John Lehman, professor of biology, was reelected to the post of Senate secretary by acclamation.