Faculty/Staff Spotlights
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April 18, 2022
“My entire first year was on Zoom, but I have the personality to be able to do that and drive that. It was a challenge, regardless I loved the year.”
— Joanne Pierson, project manager for DyslexiaHelp who has been involved with the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor for 18 years and served as its president during the pandemic
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April 11, 2022
“Even when I try to do paintings that are straightforward, they end up being kind of funny, and that’s one way I see the arts being more accessible.”
Alison Rivett, associate director of the Arts Initiative, who has created several paintings inspired by Ph.D. dissertations, including one based on a Greek-language papyrus letter from a man to his wife
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April 4, 2022
“It’s a very serious job when working with a dog, but it’s the most rewarding job in law enforcement, in my opinion.”
Officer Joseph Dunny, who has been with the Division of Public Safety and Security since 1998 and with the K-9 unit since 2010
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March 28, 2022
“I love being on the water. There’s an entirely different time scale of how things happen when you’re out on the water.”
— Holly Kelchner, an aquatic ecology research analyst with the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, who lists scuba diving and sailing among her passions
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March 21, 2022
“I thought, wrongly, you just run around with the dog and you point at things, and they jump over things and go through tunnels.”
— Holly Hughes, a professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and LSA, who trains and shows dogs in agility competitions
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March 14, 2022
“I got interested in other things going on in Detroit related to urban farming and greenspace and how to creatively reimagine neighborhoods.”
— Paul Draus, professor of sociology at UM-Dearborn who has engaged with communities crafting environmental and sustainable solutions in Detroit
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March 7, 2022
“Reading the books is fascinating because the language is different, the content is so different, it almost feels like a time capsule of the era.”
— Devin Berghorst, senior case manager for student support services in the Dean of Students Office who has amassed a collection of between 400 and 500 Captain America comic books as well as other memorabilia
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February 21, 2022
“If I didn’t start playing hockey, I wouldn’t have been there. If the whole reason I started playing hockey was for this one night, it’s worth it.”
— Jeff Zampi, a pediatric cardiologist at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital who helped save the life of a family friend who collapsed during a hockey game
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February 14, 2022
“I felt the goal of having a marathon coming up held me accountable to getting out there every day and running.”
— Nancy Ambrose King, professor of oboe in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, has run marathons in all 50 states and the District of Columbia
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February 7, 2022
“All my creative instincts are to go for simplicity. I like to do more with less. It’s just a principle that I’m very obsessed with.”
— Roland Graf, associate professor of art and design in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design who built a table out of seven planks of wood that is now manufactured in Germany
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