Each year The University Record profiles several graduating seniors who highlight the range of experiences and people who attend U-M.
Ross School senior to graduate with BBA, app
Danny Freed comes from a long line of University of Michigan alums, but is the first to graduate with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and an app. Freed, 21, of West Bloomfield, is a co-founder of Companion, an app that helps your friends and family keep an eye on you while you walk home late at night.
SMTD senior passionate about dance
What do you do when you’re stranded late at night with a flat tire and 11 professional dancers? Just ask senior Hillary Kooistra. Kooistra, a student at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, was one of this year’s 21st Century Artist Interns, a collaboration between SMTD and the University Musical Society that matches U-M students with professional performing ensembles.
Screen arts and cultures senior interns for David Letterman
For LSA senior Caroline Schaper, comedy is serious business. Well, sort of. “I’ve known for a pretty long time that I wanted to be a television writer, so I came to the University of Michigan knowing I wanted to do something with writing,” says Schaper, who is serving as an intern on “Late Show with David Letterman.”
Senior thrives in ‘journey of healing’
Leontine Wallace didn’t usually share details of her life, including drug abuse, but that hesitancy changed after a lecture by a professor who openly shared the challenges he faced in life. Wallace, a 26-year-old Owosso senior who will graduate with a nursing degree and minor in social work, has a better perspective on life.
