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September 17, 2012
Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography. Regular Michigan Radio contributor Anne Curzan says she is a linguist partly because her “mathy” brain gets the system of the English language. But what really inspired her to make the study of English her life’s calling was the creativity and quirkiness that often shapes the evolution of…
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September 10, 2012
Julia Child was not pleased with Kathy Goldberg’s question. In the early 1990s at a food event in Aspen, Colo., Goldberg, now an MHealthy dietitian, dared to ask Child about substituting olive oil for butter in a traditional bechamel (white) sauce recipe. Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography. “She said, ‘Why would you want to…
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September 4, 2012
Shelie Miller, who won a National Science Foundation award for her development of a switchgrass research tool, says biofuels won’t solve our energy or climate problems — but they can help. “They are a source of domestic energy that can create jobs and stimulate rural economies,” says Miller, an assistant professor of natural resources and…
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August 13, 2012
As President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney prepare for a showdown this election year, Marti Towas remembers the time she led her own political campaign. Towas, now an administrative assistant senior with the Comprehensive Cancer Center, in 1978 ran for the post of Hamburg Township Clerk, and won. Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography.…
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July 23, 2012
The world will watch the high jumpers, long jumpers, runners, swimmers and divers as the London 2012 Olympic Summer Games open Friday. But Stefan Szymanski — a native of host country Great Britain — won’t particularly be watching athletes. Instead, he’ll watch tourists. Photo by Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography. “I will be mainly interested in…
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July 9, 2012
When telling people about his job, Jeff Kopmanis says that he works on NASA projects — and he’s not exaggerating. As an application programmer senior at the Center for Space Environment Modeling in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, College of Engineering, Kopmanis works on the websites that host the AOSS scientists’ tools…
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June 25, 2012
Related stories: What moment in the classroom or lab stands out as the most memorable?
Having a student tell me at the end of the semester how she really did not want to take this class, but actually ended up enjoying it because I made the topic interesting.
What can’t you live without?
My family,…
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June 11, 2012
If it’s true that the destination is secondary to the journey, then Mark Haviland has done pretty well for himself. Haviland, a program manager with the Center for Campus Involvement, also is the manager of the Student Theatre Arts Complex — a preproduction facility on South Campus — helping students prepare theatrical productions. Photo by…
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May 21, 2012
Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography. David Potter, a Francis W. Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, has a full resume — ranging from Harvard to the History Channel. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard before completing his graduate studies at Oxford University in England.…
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April 30, 2012
Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography. The decision to study Hungary was easy for Krisztina Fehervary, assistant professor of anthropology, LSA. It was her father, Istvan, who helped connect Fehervary to her Hungarian roots. Istvan Fehervary had spent eight years in a communist prison for writing down the numbers of Soviet tanks during the Hungarian…
