Faculty Spotlight
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February 14, 2022
Oboe professor runs a marathon in every state
Nancy Ambrose King, professor of oboe in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, completed a marathon in all 50 states, all before turning 60.
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February 7, 2022
Stamps professor’s homemade table becomes much more
Roland Graf made a simple table made of seven planks of untreated pine around which his family gathered for a retirement celebration in 2006.
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January 31, 2022
Buzz starting to grow around lecturer’s writers’ circle
Debotri Dhar, lecturer II in women’s and gender studies in LSA, suggested the idea for the Hummingbird Global Writers’ Circle in December 2016.
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January 24, 2022
New York native drums up performance, teaching career
Ian Antonio, assistant professor of music in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, has played the drums since before he can remember and performed on four continents.
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January 17, 2022
Filmmaker got their start early with VHS camcorder
Charli Brissey, assistant professor of dance in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, has worked at U-M since 2018 teaching film, composition and technique classes in the dance department.
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December 6, 2021
Dara Hill finds resonating way to share research
Dara Hill, associate professor of reading and language arts in the College of Education, Health, and Human Services at UM-Dearborn, put together a short documentary called “My Child’s K-5 School Journey in Detroit.”
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November 22, 2021
Associate professor’s love of dance started early
A dramaturg, dance historian and theorist, Clare Croft is associate professor of American culture in LSA. She also has launched and curated projects to promote queer dance and open dialogue in that sphere.
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November 15, 2021
Teaching piano to youth a ‘labor of love’ for lecturer
Amy I-Lin Cheng is a lecturer IV in piano at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. In addition, she teaches piano to youth between the ages of 7 and 17 in her private studio in Ann Arbor.
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October 18, 2021
UM-Flint professor shares love of music in many ways
Brian DiBlassio, associate professor of music in the College of Arts and Sciences at UM-Flint, began playing piano at age 9 and has been in the same band since 1999.
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October 11, 2021
Stamps lecturer puts love of art, skateboarding on display
David Flaugher, a lecturer I in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, at one time considered a career as a professional skateboarder. He instead pursued a career teaching and creating art.
