Faculty Spotlight
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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.
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September 8, 2014
Business professor puts leadership skills to use on Everest
Next to Scott DeRue’s desk hangs a whiteboard covered in multicolor outlines, parabolas and lists. Written with green marker in neat, unassuming handwriting near the middle of the board is one question: “How do we change people’s lives?”
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August 11, 2014
Art & Design professor promotes community engagement
In seventh grade, Anne Mondro asked her teacher if she should pursue art or science in college. Although years later Mondro ended up choosing art school, the teacher told her, “Here you are doing both!”
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July 14, 2014
Teach for America-Detroit coordinator brings passion for education home
While other children played ballerina or dreamed of floating in outer space, Kendra Hearn spent her playtime imagining that she had her own classroom.
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June 9, 2014
Business professor encourages collaboration in design class
Every summer, Bill Lovejoy dreams up a challenge for his Integrated Product Design students. The product he’ll ask student teams to design must be a consumer project, has to be doable in 12 weeks, and it can’t require a lot of expenditure.
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May 5, 2014
Dearborn professor creates lesson plans for South African schools
While other students on the UM-Dearborn campus may be studying for more traditional finals, Stein Brunvand’s students are finishing up multimedia lesson plans to address various needs in the South African K-12 school curriculum.
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April 17, 2014
MacArthur Fellow champions green chemistry
When Melanie Sanford talks about chemistry, her words speed up, her smile grows wider and her hands fly as she explains a concept. “You can think about putting molecules together like a puzzle,” she says.
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April 7, 2014
Papyrologist studies ancient treasures, preserves the past
As archivist of the University of Michigan’s Papyrology Collection, Brendan Haug has the unique privilege of overseeing 30 pages from an original codex of the Letters of Paul from the New Testament.
