Faculty/Staff Spotlights
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November 7, 2022
“I feel like as adults, we forget how to play and how to kind of let go and have fun.”
— Beth Dutridge-Corp, an LSA graduate education program manager who takes part in improvisational comedy performances
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October 31, 2022
“You can’t play the theme song to ‘A Whole New World’ wrong. Even a 6-year-old kid would say, ‘That doesn’t sound right.’”
— Jonathan Smith, percussion program manager at U-M, who has performed nearly 200 shows for “Aladdin” on Broadway since 2014 as the designated sub for the musical’s full-time percussionist
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October 24, 2022
“I have always been obsessed with water and found it a great comfort.”
— Aaron Dworkin, professor of arts leadership and entrepreneurship in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, spent much of his time during the COVID-19 quarantine preparing to captain voyages across the Gulf Stream
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October 17, 2022
“It’s my intention to have them hear a song in another language that’s not English, and hear that that’s beautiful, too.”
— Tamara West, an intercultural program adviser at U-M’s Center for Global and Intercultural Study who participates in singing competitions in a wide array of foreign languages
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October 10, 2022
“I have a lot of stuff. It’s kind of an eclectic mix. I get bored pretty easily, so I end up with a lot of hobbies. I’m like a big 12-year-old.”
— Todd Coon, supervisor for the Procurement Services technology team, has a robust collection of knives, swords, Captain America memorabilia and other things on display in the basement of his Ypsilanti home
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October 3, 2022
“I love to give to other people, and I like to inspire them and let them know that you can do this, too.”
— Dave Brenner, the School for Environment and Sustainability’s creative and web director who with his wife, Shelley, competes in chalk-art competitions around the country and the world
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September 26, 2022
“You’re working with one of the world’s biggest jigsaw puzzles. That’s why I keep getting drawn back there.”
— Richard Redding, associate research scientist in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, who has spent nearly every winter in Egypt for about 30 years uncovering the mysteries of the Old Kingdom
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September 19, 2022
“I loved competing with the guys. I guess little me loved the idea of proving 8-year-old boys wrong.”
— Mimi Bolden-Morris, who is an offensive graduate assistant with the Michigan football team, the first female graduate assistant at a Power Five school
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September 12, 2022
“This is turning into somewhat of a war of attrition, and the people of Ukraine are so deserving of our support.”
— Florian Schmitzberger, an emergency physician at U-M Health, who works with Global Response Management and provided care and training in Ukraine after Russia invaded
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September 6, 2022
“I always say that 12-year-old Dave would be very impressed with what 50-something Dave was up to.”
— David Carter, who serves as video game archivist for the Computer and Video Game Archive and comics librarian, combining two of his early childhood loves
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