Faculty/Staff Spotlights
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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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July 22, 2024
“It’s crazy, the insane amount of dogs that end up as strays and end up in the shelter. You can find some of the most amazing dogs straight out of shelters.”
— Sarah Kucemba, an academic adviser in the College of Engineering who with three friends co-founded Underdog Rescue Ranch, a nonprofit dedicated to finding dogs loving homes
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June 24, 2024
“I wanted to pick things that were of historical significance but also things that were inside jokes or favorite haunts of people as well.”
— Bettina Senga, communications manager for the Center for Global Health Equity who is using relief printmaking to illustrate an alphabet book highlighting Ann Arbor’s gems in honor of the city’s 200th birthday this year
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June 10, 2024
“It’s just plastic and a bunch of motors. But somehow it becomes more than the sum of its parts.”
— Samir Rawashdeh, a UM-Dearborn associate professor of electrical and computer engineering who 3D printed replicas of the “Star Wars” droids and engineered them into robotic toys for his kids
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May 20, 2024
“If you could conquer blacksmithing, you could probably figure out something else that seems out of reach to you.”
— Thomas Henthorn, professor of history at UM-Flint who was introduced to blacksmithing while exploring historic sites and now teaches classes on blacksmithing in Flint
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May 6, 2024
“Hong Kong has turned me into a voracious omnivore who lives to eat and plans everything around it.”
— Gray Carper, a service quality analyst with Health Information Technology & Services who first visited Hong Kong in 2003 and now lives there and serves as a tour guide
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April 29, 2024
Among those preparing to graduate are Mahalina Dimacali from LSA/School for the Environment and Sustainability; Evan Eidt from the College of Engineering; Ikalanni Jahi from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design; Olivia Jeong from the School of Public Health; Neil Nakkash from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; and Hannah Slawson from the School of Nursing
— Each year, the Record highlights the range of experiences and people who attend U-M by profiling selected graduates about their time at the university and their plans for life afterward.
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