Faculty/Staff Spotlights
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January 29, 2024
“Tai chi is something you can do for the rest of your life that you don’t actually have to memorize.”
— Lauren McCarthy, senior applications analyst for the Department of Learning Health Science at the Medical School, who with her wife, Karla Groesbeck, opened Tai Chi Love more than five years ago.
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January 22, 2024
“I don’t know if it feels different because I’m on the field now or because of the season the Lions are having, but it’s fever pitch at this point.”
— DeAndre Hicks, social media specialist at the Center for Academic Innovation and UM-Dearborn alumnus who is a member of the Detroit Lions Drumline
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January 15, 2024
“It’s very intense, fine motor focus, which is really nice because in some ways focusing on something so intently gives your mind a break.”
— Katherine Ziska, a research associate with the Marsal Family School of Education who also is a visiting potter with the Ann Arbor Potters Guild and spends hours each week creating mugs, bowls, vases and other objects
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December 4, 2023
“Working and being around people who are not the same as me, it really makes me appreciate diversity a lot.”
— Patricia Brainard, department administrator for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering who has helped support the Special Olympics for six decades
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November 20, 2023
“I like to cross things off and complete things, and this was a way to motivate me to get off the couch and walk.”
— Kathy Klinich, research scientist in the Biosciences Group of the U-M Transportation Research Institute who took on and recently completed the ambitious task of walking each street in Ann Arbor at least once
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November 13, 2023
“The beautiful thing about climbing is when you’re on the wall or on a rock, you can’t think about anything else.”
— Gary Hammer, the Millie Schembechler Professor of Adrenal Cancer in the Medical School, has been climbing since his son visited a climbing park 15 years ago
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November 6, 2023
“For most choreographers, if not all, we literally see music. When we hear it, we see what it would look like on bodies.”
— John Luther, career development coordinator with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, who spent more than a decade dancing professionally before directing and choreographing musical theater
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October 30, 2023
“It’s just about being yourself and dancing around and having a good time. It’s always this unanimous light-hearted and welcoming atmosphere to work out.”
— Camille Craine, a clinical social worker in the adult inpatient psychiatry unit at University Hospital who teaches Zumba and has served as an instructor each year for the Zumba in the Big House event in the fall
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October 16, 2023
“It’s just fun to play music with other people and perform together.”
— Gene Mage, managing director of custom programs in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, who took up bass guitar in the late 1980s, dove back into music once the COVID-19 pandemic caused lockdowns and now plays in a band
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October 9, 2023
“It chokes me up every year to stand on that starting line and say, ‘This is it, I’m going to run the Boston Marathon.’”
— Chris Roberts, adjunct professor of dentistry in the School of Dentistry who will compete in his 25th Boston Marathon in April 2024 and 22nd in a row
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