Faculty Spotlight
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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.
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November 12, 2018
Sense of home inspires Taubman lecturer to revitalize Detroit
In an effort to preserve Detroiters’ memories and neighborhoods, Kimberly Dowdell, a lecturer at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, is a partner at Century Partners, a real estate development firm that aims to revitalize city neighborhoods while connecting residents to investment opportunities.
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October 29, 2018
DeLean Tolbert takes deep dive into diversity in engineering education
In some ways, DeLean Tolbert’s life at UM-Dearborn as an assistant professor differs from when she was an undergraduate there. But the research questions involving race, engineering skill development and access to higher education that she wrestles with now are things she started wondering about as a student.
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October 22, 2018
UM-Flint associate professor inspires future environmental problem solvers
Heather Dawson is an associate professor of biology at UM-Flint who has collaborated on field research with about two dozen undergraduate students and a dozen graduate students. Working with them has allowed her to investigate a wider range of issues, she said, while providing the students a chance to hone professional skills.
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October 1, 2018
English lecturer edits literary magazine written by prisoners
As editor of the Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, Phil Christman does not bat an eyelash at the idea of bringing the arts to prisoners in Michigan.
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September 4, 2018
Art & Design professor aims to make technology more personable
When most people think of a cyborg, they may think of a half-human, half-machine hybrid akin to Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Terminator.” Sophia Brueckner would argue a bit differently about what being a cyborg means, as she considers herself to be one.
