Faculty Spotlight
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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.
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October 27, 2014
Pediatrician promotes patient-centered healthcare design
For pediatrician Dr. Joyce Lee, “doctor” also means “designer.” This idea became reality for Lee in 2012, as she worked on managing her two children’s life-threatening food allergies.
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October 13, 2014
Music professor explores history of national anthem
Normally, when Mark Clague writes an article, he’s happy to have a few hundred readers. On a recent Saturday, his words were heard by more than 100,000 people. Clague, associate professor of musicology at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, wrote and narrated the “Proudly, We Hail!” halftime show for the football game against Miami University that celebrated the 200th anniversary of the national anthem.
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September 22, 2014
Public policy professor pursues social justice at Supreme Court
In 1991, a young graduate student named Ann Chih Lin had a rare opportunity to become involved in the landmark Supreme Court desegregation case Freeman vs. Pitts, as a consultant for the American Civil Liberties Union. She’s now an associate professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and associate professor of political science at LSA.
