senior profiles
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April 25, 2016
Ross School student looks forward to stint with Peace Corps
With a dual degree in business and international studies, G.S. Suri ultimately looks forward to a successful career in venture capital. But his first job after graduation will be a two-year stint serving in the Peace Corps in Morocco. (Photo courtesy of G.S. Suri) “I looked at the Peace Corps website and they had opportunities… -
April 25, 2016
Writing doors open for international studies, German senior
When his college opportunity came knocking in 2011, Stuart Richardson admits that neither he nor his parents knew what to expect at the University of Michigan. But after touring the campus, which he described as vibrant and chaotic, he knew instantly that he wanted to become a Wolverine. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography) He’s… -
April 25, 2016
Profiles from the Class of 2016
Each year The University Record profiles several graduating seniors who highlight the range of experiences and people who attend U-M.
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April 27, 2015
Screen arts and cultures senior interns for David Letterman
For LSA senior Caroline Schaper, comedy is serious business. Well, sort of. “I’ve known for a pretty long time that I wanted to be a television writer, so I came to the University of Michigan knowing I wanted to do something with writing,” says Schaper, a Pittsburgh native. After taking writing courses with lecturer Oliver… -
April 27, 2015
Senior thrives in ‘journey of healing’
Leontine Wallace didn’t usually share details of her life, including drug abuse, but that hesitancy changed after a lecture by a professor who openly shared the challenges he faced in life. Wallace, a 26-year-old Owosso senior who will graduate with a nursing degree and minor in social work, has a better perspective on life. She… -
April 27, 2015
Profiles from the Class of 2015
Each year The University Record profiles several graduating seniors who highlight the range of experiences and people who attend U-M. Profiles from the Class of 2015 are:
• Danny Freed, who co-founded Companion, an app that helps promote late-night safety.
• Hillary Kooistra, whose internships have helped further a passion for dance.
• Caroline Schaper, whose work as a sketch comedy writer and actor led to an internship with David Letterman.
• Leontine Wallace, who draws on her personal life challenges to inform her training as a nurse.
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April 27, 2015
Ross School senior to graduate with BBA, app
Danny Freed comes from a long line of University of Michigan alums, but is the first to graduate with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and an app. Freed, 21, of West Bloomfield, is a co-founder of Companion, an app that helps your friends and family keep an eye on you while you walk home… -
April 27, 2015
SMTD senior passionate about dance
What do you do when you’re stranded late at night with a flat tire and 11 professional dancers? Just ask senior Hillary Kooistra. Kooistra, a student at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, was one of this year’s 21st Century Artist Interns. The internship, a collaboration between SMTD and the University Musical Society, matches… -
April 28, 2014
Uncovering Siberian mammoth bones outside the comfort zone
Senior Chris Whalen had already decided to pursue a career in paleontology but wasn’t sure how he would handle long stretches of fieldwork in remote locations. So he tested his limits by spending a month in Siberia with his professor and several other U-M students, searching for woolly mammoth bones on the windswept tundra. “That… -
April 28, 2014
LSA senior has recipe to healthier diet
Food is at the center of Sepideh Ashrafzadeh’s life. As a teenager she watched her mother reduce fat, salt and sugar in her family’s traditional Persian recipes and saw her grandfather’s health improve. Impressed with the results, she collaborated with her mother and sister to revise 40 recipes and in 2012 published them as a…
