Faculty/Staff Spotlights
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November 22, 2021
“All of the years of Daring Dances have been working to focus on populations and questions that feel particularly important to southeastern Michigan.”
— Clare Croft, associate professor of American culture who also has launched and curated projects to promote queer dance and open dialogue in that sphere
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November 15, 2021
“I’m reminded that as an artist-teacher, we really need to cultivate our youth in a positive way through music.”
— Amy I-Lin Cheng, a lecturer IV in piano in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance who also teaches piano to youth ages 7-17 in her private studio in Ann Arbor
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November 8, 2021
“A lot of the kids here are first-generation students, who maybe don’t have parents sort of guiding them through that process.”
— Tony DeLaRosa, who serves UM-Dearborn as assistant director of experiential learning at the College of Engineering and Computer Science
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November 1, 2021
“There’s very much a personal element in each of the books that I make or there’s something challenging about them.”
— Lara Unger, digital conversion supervisor at the U-M Library who has made more than 50 artist’s books for people she knows
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October 25, 2021
“I have this drive to fight for this population because I know how hard it was for us to get services when he was a cute kid.”
— Kelly Miltimore, a registered nurse who works in the Central Staffing Resources at Michigan Medicine and wrote a book about raising a special-needs child
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October 18, 2021
“It’s just one of those situations being in a city like Ann Arbor where you have all these opportunities and culture, I definitely benefitted from that.”
— Brian DiBlassio, associate professor of music in the College of Arts and Sciences at UM-Flint, who began playing piano at age 9 and has been in the same band since 1999
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October 11, 2021
“It’s a jack-of-all-trades kind of a thing, but I’m a master of one, which is drawing. I used to be more modest about it, but now I feel pretty good about it.”
— David Flaugher, a lecturer I in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design who is also an accomplished skateboarder
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October 4, 2021
“I just love the fact that I can create; it makes me happy and takes me to a different place, it helps me relax and enjoy life.”
— Kathy Sodt, a senior business intelligence analyst with Enterprise Data and Information Services and Health Information Technology & Services at Michigan Medicine who makes quilts, table runners and jewelry
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September 27, 2021
“I enjoy action and adventure stories — and sure, superheroes too — as much or more as the next person.”
— Jim Ottaviani, a U-M librarian, has been writing graphic novels about scientists for more than two decades
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September 20, 2021
“Every student I met with the following day made it a point to say it went viral, and I didn’t even know what that meant.”
— Ryan Ball, clinical assistant professor of business administration in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business who used a potato filter in a recent study session and a student posted videos of it to TikTok
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