Faculty/Staff Spotlights
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October 28, 2024
“Improv is all about being comfortable with uncertainty. It’s being comfortable with failing.”
— Gabriela Marcu, assistant professor of information in the School of Information who discovered improv after starting a job at Drexel University and has brought her passion to UMSI
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October 21, 2024
“As my skills improve over time, each piece of work gets more sophisticated and interesting to me, which is very rewarding.”
— Bill Horvath, full-stack engineer supervisor at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research who has built up a sizable and impressive portfolio of artwork
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October 14, 2024
“I unwind by doing my art, and some days that’s coloring and some days that’s new creations.”
— Mica Harrison Loosemore, assistant dean of admissions, financial aid and enrollment at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance who loves to create fabric art or textile art
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October 7, 2024
“I’m very passionate about facilitating your own ability to still be excited by common birds.”
— Meg Millure, annual giving and stewardship officer in the School of Information who has a deep and special affinity for birds, particularly peregrine falcons.
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September 30, 2024
“Ballroom dancing keeps me motivated and helps me maintain a healthy balance with my work.”
— Eda Bozkurt, who serves multiple roles across the university and has competed in dance competitions nationally and internationally for more than 10 years
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September 16, 2024
“The things I made that could be mistaken for everyday life were my ways of interjecting what I did, what I thought creatively, into the world.”
— Nick Tobier, professor of art and design in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design who aims to create art that brings about pleasant pauses in people’s otherwise methodical paths
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September 9, 2024
“Literally, if I spilled milk, it was worth crying over because it’s like liquid gold.”
— Amy Blondin, study abroad scholarships and communications coordinator for LSA Scholarships who served as the artisan cheesemaker at White Lotus Farms for a decade
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September 3, 2024
“My view of wine is it should bring enjoyment. And I always say that bad wine with good company is better than good wine with bad company.”
— Puneet Manchanda, the Isadore and Leon Winkelman Professor of Retail Marketing and professor of marketing in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business who makes his own wine out of grapes and pears
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August 26, 2024
“I’ve always been drawn to fire. … It’s always been something that’s intrigued me and sparks some passion in me.”
— Irene Hochgraf-Cameron, an osteology inventory specialist with the LSA Museum of Anthropological Archaeology who practices fire spinning in her free time
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August 12, 2024
“I wanted to meet people who were driven like me who were in some sort of leadership role to give me new ideas outside of health care.”
— Amanda Stricklen, lead senior project manager for two statewide collaboratives at Michigan Medicine who was one of 60 members of the 2024 Presidential Leadership Scholar program
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