Faculty/Staff Spotlights
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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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October 2, 2023
“I just love the sense of community and the ability to not work in a crawl space or an attic all day long. It’s a beautiful setting here.”
— Scott Haley, who has served as facilities manager for the U-M Biological Station since 2018 after a 22-year career with a plumbing and heating business
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September 25, 2023
“At the end of the day, even if what you help find is not what they were hoping to find, it’s way better than not knowing what happened to your loved one.”
— Casandra Ulbrich, vice chancellor for institutional advancement at UM-Dearborn who has been training search-and-rescue dogs for 15 years
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September 18, 2023
“As a young kid, I was just absolutely amazed by robots. I would watch ‘Lost in Space’ and … think, ‘This is so cool, I’ve got to have one.’”
— Elaine Reed, the arts programming coordinator with Michigan Medicine’s Gifts of Art Program, who has a collection of more than 250 robot figurines
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September 11, 2023
“That’s something I love about nature photography — you don’t know. There’s an element of luck there, which I think makes it super fun.”
— Jocelyn Anderson, a web developer in LSA, who has photographed or taken video of more than 200 species of birds in Michigan and shares them on her Instagram account and website
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September 5, 2023
“My favorite thing about (Drum Corps International) is the collaboration. It’s this incredible opportunity, especially if your team is diverse.”
— DaJuan Brooks, a graduate student instructor with the Michigan Marching Band who helped create costumes for the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps and serves as director and costume designer of Chromium Winds
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August 28, 2023
“I loved coaching and working with the players and little kids and helping them grow in their excitement for the sport and have fun.”
— Trevor Kilgore, a student affairs engagement coordinator and academic adviser in the School of Kinesiology, who began coaching when his daughter was 4 and is coaching four youth soccer teams this fall
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August 14, 2023
“I have been so fortunate to have colleagues who are also friends, and are dedicated and passionate about what we do.”
— UM-Dearborn’s interpretive naturalist Dorothy McLeer, who pulls out all the creative stops to help people retain information while taking them on guided tours of the trails
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July 24, 2023
“When you have two 12,000-pound machines hitting each other, there’s some kinetic energy that’s added to the event that you don’t get when you see cars or other things.”
— Chris Myers, assistant director of digital strategy, communications and outreach at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, who competes in combine demolition derbies
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June 19, 2023
“There is kind of a meditative quality about doing the work that I do. I zone out and fall into the drawings I’m doing.”
— Megan Foldenauer, multimedia specialist for Michigan Medicine Neurosurgery whose anatomical drawings have been featured in three textbooks and dozens of medical journals
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