Faculty/Staff Spotlights
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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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June 5, 2023
“We know this war will stop and we know Ukraine will win, but we want Ukraine to win and then have a future.”
— Juliya Wicklund, an America Reads program manager with the Edward Ginsberg Center who helped launch the Ukraine TrustChain, a nonprofit aimed at helping the war-torn country of Ukraine
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May 22, 2023
“It’s always a thrill to get to put on the Team USA jersey and head out there and compete on the world stage.”
— Chuck Aoki, community access navigator with U-M’s Adaptive Sports & Fitness program, who has competed in wheelchair rugby in three Summer Paralympics Games
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May 1, 2023
“My creative instincts take eclectic items I’ve found in nature to assemble them in a free-form manner.”
— Tamara Havermahl, a research communicator with the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology in Michigan Medicine who has designed and created dozens of mailboxes and birdhouses
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April 24, 2023
Among those preparing to graduate are Annabelle Ha from the School of Kinesiology, Rhianna Lucas from the Marsal Family School of Education, Zachary Marmet from LSA’s Program in the Environment, Cedric Preston McCoy from the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and Meghana Tummala from the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
— 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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April 17, 2023
“I would spend summers at Mount Hood ski racing in Oregon, so I was very thankful for the opportunities my parents gave me to live a different life than other people.”
— Devon Janks, director of catering for Michigan Dining who was a collegiate ski racer and coaches high school ski racing at South Lyon United
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