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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…
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April 23, 2012
Risk has been a prevalent theme in Mark McManamay’s life. The application developer lead for Information & Technology Services has spent the last 20 years as a skydiving enthusiast. “When I made my first jump, I crawled out onto the wing, and I was shaking I was so scared. Then there was a point when…
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April 16, 2012
Like many of his students, Brent Wagner fell in love with theatre music at a young age. “I really loved the combination of text and music in the telling of a story, because music speaks to our emotions and the words carry the meaning,” he says. ”The combination, I found, was very powerful.” Photo by…
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April 9, 2012
Margaret Nowak used to often meet with a chemotherapy patient who loved to paint using watercolors in the infusion room of the Comprehensive Cancer Center The patient had requested that Nowak, an art therapist, come sit with her before receiving treatment. “She told me that she was always so scared before getting her chemo, and…
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April 2, 2012
Photo by Austin Thomason, U-M Photo Services. When Robert Adams’ and Dawn Gilpin’s daughter Celeste was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and began using a powered wheelchair, Adams had an idea. He wanted to invent a special ramp that would foster inclusion for disabled and non-disabled people. Adams is assistant professor of architecture at Taubman College…
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March 26, 2012
Whether it’s building radios in his free time or flying a small airplane around the state of Michigan, Dave Boprie’s personal interests have enhanced his career. An amateur pilot and self-described “radio enthusiast,” Boprie, a senior electronics technician at the Space Physics Research Laboratory on North Campus, uses his skills to build components for space…
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March 19, 2012
Ken Mikolowski and his wife Ann in 1969 set out to print the “best of the best” in art and poetry. They bought a 1,500-pound letterpress and set it up in the basement of their home. Together, they started The Alternative Press, and for 30 years printed some of the finest artists in both the…
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March 12, 2012
Nicole Green-Valentine knows the key to being a good official. “You need field presence. You need to be confident in yourself, confident that you know the rules and know how to apply them, and that you communicate well with the players, coaches, parents your partner officials,” says Green-Valentine, assistant director in the Department of Recreational…
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March 5, 2012
When Mike Shriberg was offered his current position of education director at the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute in 2010, he says the timing was just right, given the leverage and potential the university has to impact environmental and sustainability issues. “This university is at a critical moment in terms of sustainability. The commitment that (President)…
