Faculty Spotlight
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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.
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March 24, 2014
Librarian teaches faculty, helps pilot new technology
CTools has become an important aspect of daily U-M life, for both students and faculty, and Diana Perpich has been there since the beginning.
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February 24, 2014
Engineering professor promotes charity, healthy competition
Every holiday season, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering becomes the scene of an intense competition. The departmental tradition, now in its 17th year, pits faculty and staff against students in a passionately battled food drive, organized by Steve Wright, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of civil and environmental engineering, College of Engineering.
