Faculty/Staff Spotlights
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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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August 29, 2022
“There’s a pure joy that happens in the yard when my kids are picking abundant raspberries off these plants we planted together or harvesting winter squash.”
— Jeremy Moghtader, who has served as the program manager for the Campus Farm for six years after a 12-year career at Michigan State University
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August 15, 2022
“Figuring out how to reach our audience took a little bit. But once we found an audience, we found ourselves to be very busy.”
— Kate Compton Barr, a behavioral scientist with the Center for Academic Innovation who served as CEO of a baby box manufacturer called Pip & Grow
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July 25, 2022
“I feel like it’s important … that children feel that they own the space, it’s theirs and that they can be artists here.”
— John Ellis, associate professor of piano and piano pedagogy in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, who helps administer two community engagement programs that teach piano to young people
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June 20, 2022
“The hardest part is knowing what’s going to happen next and being ready for it, because if you’re not anticipating it, you’re going to miss it.”
— Sam Baldwin, media designer for the Center for Academic Innovation, who has filmed more than a thousand live sporting events around the Midwest
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June 6, 2022
“Thinking about ideologies of race as narratives allows us to engage a variety of sources.”
— Paulina Alberto, professor of history and Spanish in LSA, who focuses her research on the history of African people and Afro-descendants in Brazil and Argentina
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May 23, 2022
“Video games have always been a big part of my life. They have let me see worlds and places I would never see otherwise.”
— Christine Kitchens, a research technician with the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research who says her favorite pastime involves playing video and board games
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May 2, 2022
“There’s horses where you say, ‘That probably won’t work,’ and there’s the ones where you say, ‘I need that horse.’”
— Esme Gregory, human resources assistant at the Institute for Social Research, who with her boyfriend owns and shows her eight Friesian mares and stud
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