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September 3, 2013
Erik Kreps, financial specialist senior with the Institute for Social Research’s Survey Research Center, warned wife Sandy to be cautious. The Brighton couple already had four biological children ranging from 8 to 16. They also had two children, 5 and 7, adopted in the United States. Then on an adoption blog, Sandy spotted 3-year-old Darren,…
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August 12, 2013
Being a self-proclaimed contrarian has caused Allan Stam to find himself in tight spots on occasion, but it also has helped develop his intellectual interests and studies. “My basic personal instinct is to say, ‘OK, this is what everyone believes but it can’t always be true. Say these people are wrong, then what would that…
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July 22, 2013
In a world where steam locomotive whistles rise and fall amidst the sound of tolling bells and horseshoes clomping on pavement, Patrick Drone waits behind the wheel of a clattering Model T. He smiles at people strolling by. They smile back, as they promenade along a pleasant village lane. Photo by Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography.…
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July 8, 2013
Photo by Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography. When the Ann Arbor Art Fair returns July 17-20, Dr. Stephen Stefanac will be back behind a potter’s wheel, his hands forming wet clay, showing kids and adults how pots are made. “I have a lot of fun with that. I really want to educate people about the process,”…
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June 24, 2013
Motley Crue, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Billy Joel have trusted operations to Pat Greeley, and so has the College of Pharmacy, since he left the life as a rock ’n’ roll sound engineer in the 1980s. For 27 years, the facilities manager has been a team member to faculty, students and staff, keeping sound…
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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…
