. . . Winter 2003

Coleman Inauguration
:: open to all March 27::

Mary Sue Coleman will be inaugurated as the 13th president of the University of Michigan in ceremonies to take place March 27 in Crisler Arena.

The academic procession will begin at 9:45 a.m. and the installation will occur at 10 a.m.

"President Coleman's inauguration will be open to the entire campus community," Inauguration chairwoman Chacona Johnson, chief of staff to the president and associate vice president for development, said. "We have chosen to hold the ceremony in the Crisler Arena expressly in order to make it possible to invite everyonefaculty, students and staffto attend this historic moment in the life of the University."

An academic symposium is scheduled to follow the inaugural ceremony from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Power Center.

Inauguration day activities will conclude with a campus-wide reception from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the President's House, 815 South University Ave. All are invited. Seating is open; tickets are not required.

Coleman assumed Michigan's presidency on August 1, 2002. Formerly president of the University of Iowa (1995-2002), she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine in 1997, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She co-chairs the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance.

At Michigan, she holds appointments as professor of biological chemistry in the Medical School and professor of chemistry in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.