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June 10, 2013
Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography. Mark Newman will sometimes spend weeks doing one math problem. “Just because you do it for a living, doesn’t mean it’s easy — it’s a lot of time scribbling on the blackboard,” Newman says of his research in the Department of Physics, where he is the Paul Dirac Collegiate…
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May 6, 2013
John Megahan’s office in the Museum of Zoology is indicative of the man who works there. Filing cabinets full of fish illustrations share space with bookshelves lined with biology textbooks, and his work desk is covered in kneaded erasers, paint brushes and microscopes. As the scientific illustrator and artist for the Department of Ecology and…
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April 29, 2013
Living on a small farm in Milan with animals always around, Dona Kennedy finds it hard to imagine a life without them. “I honestly don’t know how I’ll survive the day that I can’t go and clean a horse stall. I’m that involved in horses,” says Kennedy, a school recorder-evaluator in the School of Social…
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April 22, 2013
Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography. Imagine sitting in a high school history class and learning about the life cycle of stars in a seven-minute video lecture by a world-renowned astronomer. As part of the Big History Project, high school students around the world are doing just that. “Big History is an approach to history…
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April 15, 2013
Karen Simpson has spent the last 35 years working as a student financial assistant in Student Financial Services. And while she has loved her job and the impact it has, she always had another passion that, until recently, she didn’t fulfill: writing. “I have always written. Always,” she says. “But I didn’t have enough confidence…
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April 8, 2013
Photo courtesy Huda Akil Family always has been important to Dr. Huda Akil, but she didn’t think it would affect her research as co-director of the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute until she spent the day at a park with her granddaughter, Sophie. Akil, a Distinguished University Professor and Quarton Professor of Neurosciences in the…
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April 1, 2013
Standing atop Independence Pass with a 360-degree view of Colorad, Alicia Davis, cyclist and senior prosthetist-orthotist in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, U-M Health System, holds a picture of one of her young patients in her hand. “I have a tradition that started with a young patient about 10 years ago. Every time…
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March 25, 2013
If you were to look at Mark Wilson’s Web browser history, you would see lots of visits to travel sites and Google searches for “plane tickets to Ghana.” Wilson, who has a joint appointment as a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in LSA and professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health, travels…
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March 18, 2013
Living in close proximity to large stone castles in the middle of green hills was a portal into another world for Matthew Stewart-Fulton. “When I was 5 my family moved to England for a year, so I was surrounded by medieval aspects that left an impression on me as a child,” says Stewart-Fulton, a security…
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March 11, 2013
Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography. Dr. David Aronoff sat in an exam room, listening to his patient hurry through a long list of symptoms and a medical history as if she was being timed. When she finished, the patient asked why Aronoff didn’t interrupt her. He was listening. “There are two talents that…
