Faculty Spotlight
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April 20, 2015
Professor and curator brings ancient Egypt to Ann Arbor
The significance and history of the ancient Egyptian jackal gods is the topic of Terry Wilfong’s new exhibit at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, titled “Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt.” The exhibit will run until May 3.
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April 6, 2015
Kinesiology professor works with NASA to study the brain in space
When astronauts go into space, their bodies are affected by the change in gravity. Their bones lose mass, their muscles weaken, their body fluid shifts, and their balance destabilizes. But what happens to their brains? Rachael Seidler is trying to answer that question.
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March 23, 2015
Professor explores international law in Iraq and beyond
In 2004, Monica Hakimi, professor of law and associate dean for academic programming in the Law School, had a unique opportunity as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State: She worked with local authorities in Iraq to set up a property claims commission.
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March 9, 2015
Accounting professor makes advances in fraud detection, effective teaching
When Brian Green was a Ph.D. student of accounting and finance, he placed a bet with his colleague. If he could effectively conduct his research and dissertation on fraud detection, he would win his friend’s Al Kaline rookie baseball card.
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February 16, 2015
SMTD, Stamps professor films musical with satirical twist
Although U-M faculty member Andy Kirshner filmed his movie “Liberty’s Secret: The 100% All-American Musical” in Ann Arbor in late 2014, Liberty Smith has been Kirshner’s brainchild for the past six years.
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February 2, 2015
Foundations, grants librarian promotes learning across differences
Darlene Nichols is working at the grassroots level to encourage productive conversations about a vitally important topic: race.
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January 19, 2015
Health and human services professor tackles climate change in Detroit
How can we shape society in a way that makes it easier to be healthy? This is the question that drives Michigan alumna Natalie Sampson’s passion for public health.
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December 15, 2014
Engineering professor makes small-scale tech that does big things
Prabal Dutta picks up a tiny sensor, no wider than a fingernail and about an inch long, then holds it next to a light until its embedded LED starts blinking blue. His sensor, a small circuit board overlaid with a tiny solar panel, harvests the light and stores that energy in a tiny capacitor.
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November 24, 2014
History professor studies political activism, stays involved
As a freshman reporter at U-M, Howard Brick was in the press section at a 1971 rally to free leftist poet John Sinclair. Now the Louis Evans Professor of History, Brick says he remains “interested in helping to document the history and heritage of political movements, and the idea that the radical left might yet have a future in the United States.”
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November 10, 2014
Policy professor stresses teamwork to improve decision-making
Elisabeth Gerber has learned that applying teamwork is good for everything from fixing potholes to determining international, federal, health, environmental or economic policy.
