Faculty/Staff Spotlights
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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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April 25, 2022
Among those preparing to graduate are Mariah Bobo from the College of Pharmacy, Brennan Burrows from the School of Public Health, Chelcey Daniels from the School of Education, Jordan Raschi from the School of Kinesiology, and Maggie Wiebe from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
— 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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