Faculty/Staff Spotlights
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June 6, 2020
“I feel steady and energized. To my surprise, in fact, I have found teaching online and during the pandemic to be one of the most moving and rewarding teaching experiences of my life.”
Carol Bardenstein, associate professor of Arabic literature and culture
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May 26, 2020
“It’s really a fundamental change to the environment. It’s a complete change to the ecosystem. It’s saying that the nighttime ecosystem will soon no longer exist.”
Sally Oey, professor of astronomy and founder of Michigan Dark Skies
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March 30, 2020
“As an engineer, I have great respect for nature — there really is no better designer. Living things are extremely complex organic machines that got optimized in such a beautiful way over a long period of time.”Nilay Chakraborty, associate professor of mechanical engineering at UM-Dearborn
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March 23, 2020
“(Horror is) an intensely personal genre. That’s another thing I like about it. It really depends on what gets inside you and freaks you out as a person.”
Gina Brandolino, a lecturer IV in the Sweetland Center for Writing and the Department of English, LSA
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March 16, 2020
“It’s definitely made me even more compassionate because I recognize what my love and care has done for this dog. And knowing that a new family gets to have this amazing dog.”
Kristin Heinrich, a transfer recruiting coordinator for LSA
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March 9, 2020
“I was surprised to realize how much I liked helping people find things and helping people understand how to use the things they found online.”
Jamie Vander Broek, an art librarian at the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library
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February 24, 2020
“The love of music will always be in my blood, but there was a deeper meaning of spreading positive energy to others.”
— Theo Chalogianis, the first lead police officer embedded in the Michigan Medicine community, a longtime drummer and aikido practitioner
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February 17, 2020
“Over time, we will have a global reach that will touch more lives than we will ever be able to count.”
Samya Nasr, director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center and a professor of pediatrics who is leading a team of volunteer staff and physicians dedicated to improving CF care around the world
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February 10, 2020
“I’m just that crazy motivated, aspirational person who has to learn how to say no sometimes but would rather say yes.”Jenna Long, academic adviser in the School of Nursing who’s involved with the Advising Council at U-M and the Office of New Student Programs Mentorship Program
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February 3, 2020
“I want students to know that they need to make history that is alive and to change the now, not just to record the past.”
Maria Cotera, associate professor of American Culture and of women’s studies
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