Faculty Spotlight
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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January 18, 2016
Atmospheric science professor researches hurricanes with NASA
Christopher Ruf has been working with NASA since he helped develop the technology for Hurricane Hunter airplanes in his graduate school days.
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January 11, 2016
RC lecturer lives by principles of beauty, truth and goodness
Professionally, Residential College Lecturer Sarah Messer’s work involves writing, mentoring students and uniting the local poetry community. But in her free time, she can be found milking goats and catching their kids as they’re birthed at the Buddhist farm and creamery, White Lotus Farms.
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November 23, 2015
ISIS threat in Middle East touches Kelsey researcher
Long before the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, the doubly devastating impact of ISIS in the Middle East was felt in Ann Arbor by U-M researcher Geoff Emberling.
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November 9, 2015
Associate professor studies extreme poverty in America
When living in extreme poverty, people make use of whatever assets they have as a means of survival, whether it means selling plasma, junk yard scrapping, food stamps or sex just to get by. “It’s both depressing and uplifting,” Luke Shaefer says of witnessing these efforts firsthand through his research.
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November 2, 2015
Stamps professor has designs on visual storytelling
On any given day, we halt for stoplights, yield to passing cars and follow street signs. Every day, we follow the rules set forth by society. This unconscious interaction between people and the built environment is what attracted Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo to the world of design and what ultimately brought him to the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.
