Faculty Spotlight
-
October 10, 2016
Family musicians inspire percussion professor’s passion for rhythm
It could have been genetics. Maybe just serendipity. Whatever it was that lit the flame of rhythm and improvisation, Michael Gould, professor of music (percussion) at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, strives to start or fan such a fire in his students.
-
October 3, 2016
Medical School professor shares music with family, patients
Family is important to Dr. Paul Fine. Nestled within a cozy corner of the labyrinthine Taubman Health Care Center, pictures of family and friends smile down from frames dotting every surface of his office. In addition to his professional duties, Fine is a seasoned musical composer and pianist.
-
September 6, 2016
Carillonist says working with students ‘exhilarating’
Tiffany Ng’s first year as university carillonist at Burton Tower is nearly done, and she’s excited about her students’ achievements.
-
June 20, 2016
Biomedical engineer 3-D prints life-saving splints
In 2013, parents of a 5-month-old child were told that it was unlikely that their son, who suffered from a condition known as tracheobronchomalacia, would live to leave the hospital. Today, from a desk full of 3-D printed models, Scott Hollister picks up a small splint that saved that child’s life.
-
May 23, 2016
Stamps School professor bridges U-M with prisoners’ art
Janie Paul took her lifelong desire to make art with people living on the margins of society to create a novel culture at the University of Michigan.
-
April 18, 2016
SNRE professor explores biodiversity on coffee farms
School of Natural Resources and Environment Professor Ivette Perfecto has spent more than 20 years studying the ecology of coffee farms. “I wanted to understand better what this diversity does in the ecosystem, and how it contributes to the sustainability and productivity of the farms.”
-
April 4, 2016
Women’s leadership, rights is focus of UM-Dearborn professor’s seminar
For the past 12 years, Georgina Hickey she has taught a seminar at UM-Dearborn that examines women’s leadership in movements for social change through case studies from 19th and 20th century U.S. history.
-
March 21, 2016
Sociology lecturer explores first-generation student experience
In 1972, sociology lecturer Dwight Lang became the first in his family to graduate from college. Today, as part of the First Gen College Students @ Michigan group, he advises students who are the first to do so in theirs.
-
February 15, 2016
U-M’s newest Biological Sciences Scholar ‘fascinated’ by discovery
From a young age, Dr. Kaushik Choudhuri was fascinated by science. “My early interest in science stems from reading my father’s subscription to Scientific American and watching reruns of Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’ as a child,” he recalls. Ultimately, Choudhuri pursued a career in medicine,
-
February 1, 2016
History professor journeys west for ‘Little House’
As a little girl, Michelle McClellan would carefully place her Barbie dolls in a shoebox and pretend they were the Ingalls family, heading west for adventure in a dusty covered wagon. The assistant professor of history was always trying to be more like Laura Ingalls Wilder.
