Faculty Spotlight
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April 29, 2019
Lecturer aims to combat health care disparities in local communities
During her second week conducting a study on pediatric HIV in Durban, South Africa, Leseliey Welch walked into one of the local hospital rooms to witness a young mother crying over her infant’s crib. “That day is when I realized that health is about more than doctors,” said Welch.
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April 22, 2019
Anthropologist explores water’s role in Mexico City lives
As a medical anthropologist doing field work in Mexico City’s working-class neighborhoods, Elizabeth Roberts found that water was often less accessible and more expensive than soda. She and her team are studying ways in which the availability of water and residents’ trust in water shapes people’s health and well-being.
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April 15, 2019
Spotlight: Dearborn faculty member’s film explores self-esteem
Jen Proctor, an associate professor of journalism and screen studies at UM-Dearborn, has created “Am I Pretty?”, a visually minimalistic film that is built around a series of YouTube videos by teens and tweens and which explores how self-esteem can be tied to appearance perception in female adolescence.
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April 8, 2019
SEAS research scientist aims to unite art and science
Sara Adlerstein, an associate research scientist in the School for Environment and Sustainability, ecology and art are very much connected. And navigating between these two disciplines in her dual interests of art and science revealed a possibility for using art as a tool for advancing change.
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March 25, 2019
Professor builds network of underrepresented chemists in Diversify Chemistry
When Anne McNeil attended an American Chemical Society conference a couple years ago, she was surprised to find a symposium in her field with no invited women speakers. That prompted her to launch Diversify Chemistry to help people find individuals from historically underrepresented backgrounds in chemistry.
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February 11, 2019
Medical School associate professor helps those who lose babies
For almost two decades, Irv Leon has channeled his own early experiences to help those who have endured reproductive loss learn how to grieve and heal.
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January 21, 2019
Professor’s work focuses on molecules key to curing diseases
Growing up in Germany, Nils G. Walter formed a positive, but secondhand, impression of the United States. His father had been a prisoner of war in Texas who often told Walter about the kindness of Americans. Still, it was Walter’s love of chemistry that ultimately led him to move to the United States.
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January 14, 2019
Kusunoki a champion for women and reproductive justice
Yasamin Kusunoki was a young girl growing up in California when she made an observation that stayed with her. “I saw the power dynamics between boys and girls and that didn’t sit well with me,” she explained.
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December 3, 2018
Taubman assistant professor uses architecture to help children with autism
Sean Ahlquist, assistant professor of architecture, has dedicated his scholarship and teaching at U-M to creating sensory-rich environments that help children with autism overcome challenges for interacting within “sensory-toxic” socially active environments.
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November 19, 2018
UM-Dearborn’s Marouane Kessentini is cleaning up legacy software
These days, the energy buzzing around Marouane Kessentini, associate professor of computer and information science at UM-Dearborn, is hard to miss. U-M’s Office of Technology Transfer announced his software refactoring tool is one of eight notable U-M inventions of the year.
