Faculty/Staff Spotlights
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March 15, 2021
“As life expectancy is starting to decline in part as a function of obesity, our children are the ones being affected by it the most.”
Rebecca Hasson, associate professor of movement science in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Childhood Disparities Research Laboratory
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March 8, 2021
“The best part is just being able to give a bright spot to patients and the families, even if it’s just a smile in the day.”
Emily Wheeler, guest services specialist at the Division of Public Safety and Security, who occasionally plays the baby grand piano in the lobby of C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
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March 1, 2021
“The task of putting it back together again didn’t sound too hard at first, but there were a few catches involved.”
Dan Erickson, properties carpenter/artisan in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, who recently helped remount an elephant skeleton
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February 22, 2021
“Rowing on the Huron down at Argo is just stunningly beautiful. You don’t feel like you’re in the city.”
— Mike Psarouthakis, director of the U-M Tech Transfer Venture Center and managing director of the Accelerate Blue Fund
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February 15, 2021
“I’m trying to find a way to convey an honest but not discouraging picture of what happened back in the day.”
— Lynn Carpenter, lecturer IV in ecology and evolutionary biology, and in molecular, cellular and developmental biology in LSA, who re-creates old photos by taking recent shots from the same vantage point
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February 8, 2021
“I’m still learning about different places to go, but every time I drive, I notice new places and trails that I want to try out.”
— Heather Klein, coordinator of advising training and professional development at LSA’s Newnan Academic Advising Center
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February 1, 2021
“We have to keep remaining hopeful, even in these tough days, that out of this will come something even more creative. The arts flourish with adversity.”
— Caroline Coade, assistant professor of viola and a competitive amateur ballroom dancer
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January 25, 2021
“I was happy to bring a little bit of joy and spark some of those happy memories everybody else has about campus.”
— Adam Mael, a graduate coordinator in the College of Engineering who recently completed a LEGO model of part of Central Campus
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January 18, 2021
“He meant a lot to a lot of people. As a contestant, you don’t actually get to talk to him much, but you can’t help but be in awe of him.”
— Ian Shin, assistant professor of history and American culture in LSA, speaking of longtime “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek
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January 11, 2021
“Primarily what I do is use nonfiction writing and journalistic writing that has exposed whatever environmental injustice has happened in particular communities.”
— Virginia Murphy, lecturer II in Program in the Environment and lecturer IV in the Residential College in LSA
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