The following information was gleaned from the internal publications of the institutions mentioned.
* Public Safety officers at the University of Michigan recently recovered a 60-pound meteorite reported stolen from a museum display on campus. After posting a notice on the Internet, the museum was contacted by a dealer in Ithaca, N.Y., who reported he had just purchased a meteorite fitting the description. No arrests have been made in the case.
* The University of Wisconsin-Madison spent nearly $800,000 last year to increase the pay of 88 faculty and staff members courted by other universities and private companies. The salary adjustments at UW-Madison were among 136 made at UW System schools during 1997-98 that totaled a little more than $1 million.
* At the University of Illinois at Chicago, students are surfing the 'Net from their dorm rooms. A $1 million project to wire individual residence hall rooms for cable TV brought the bonus of lines for students' personal computers. The lines are available in all campus residence halls. Students who want to connect their PCs will pay $10 per month this year and $5 per month for cable TV.
* A Labor Day storm that ripped through Syracuse University's campus has left an estimated $14 million in damage and recovery costs in its wake, according to a preliminary report from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The figure includes expenses for clearing trees, repairing damaged buildings and housing displaced students. Syracuse's insurance carrier is expected to cover a significant portion of the repair and recovery costs.
* The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is expecting to suffer a $1.7-million cut in state funds for the 1998-99 budget year. Most of the funding cut resulted from recommendations in a state report that examined administrative reporting levels and supervisor-to-employee ratios at all 16 UNC System campuses.
* Washington University has announced a $1 billion goal for its fund-raising campaign to increase the number of scholarships, fellowships and professorships; to support student programs and libraries; to renovate facilities; and to increase student support.