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January 30, 2012
Photo by Scott Soderberg, U-M Photo Services. As a young boy, Mark Kirschenmann was fascinated by the music he heard near his home in Valparaiso, Ind. “I would beg my mother to take me to watch the high school marching band practice because I was struck by the sound and movement,” says Kirschenmann, lecturer III…
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January 23, 2012
Shaun Manning, U-M Press promotions coordinator, has written creatively for many years, however, he recently found a new outlet. “I read a lot; I read nonfiction, I read fiction, I read comics. So when I write, I have a sense of what form a story should take. One story came to me as a comic,…
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January 16, 2012
What moment in the classroom stands out as the most memorable? Having students come back and talk to me about how their lives have changed. If you were selling Ann Arbor to a faculty colleague, how would you describe what it has to offer? It’s always rated one of the best places to raise kids.…
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January 9, 2012
Whether working his day job at the Dental School or serving as a firefighter, Jeremy Towler is a man many depend on for things large and small. The inventory control clerk at the School of Dentistry oversees shipping and receiving lab cases, sorts laundry, tracks invoices and more. Photo by Eric Bronson, U-M Photo Services.…
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December 12, 2011
Karl Daubmann sits in his office at PLY headquarters, adjacent to his home in Ann Arbor, and he points to the light hanging above his head as he describes the research and intent behind its design. The thinly cut plywood, he says, allows for light to shine through the body of the fixture and give…
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December 5, 2011
Volunteer work has been a family endeavor since Jonathan Larson, UM-Dearborn’s student organizations supervisor, was a child. “My family has been very good at giving back … we always did gift baskets for food drives or coat drives,” says Larson, a native of Manistique in the Upper Peninsula. After graduating from Northern Michigan University with…
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September 5, 2011
Being a hall director suits Joe Colangelo, because mentoring the resident advisers (RAs) who make dorm life comfortable for roughly 1,100 West Quad students comes naturally to him. “I was an uncle when I was 8. I always had kids a little younger than me around, so I was always watching them,” he explains. Photo…
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August 15, 2011
Mary Bagwell likes to keep it simple, on the job as a laundry feeder folder, and when practicing her love for cooking at home. To perform well at her job, Bagwell says, “You have to make sure it’s clean, and stay busy and keep working until you get it done.” Photo by Eric Bronson, U-M…
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July 25, 2011
While working at Kellogg Eye Center in Livonia four years ago, a patient mentioned to Megan Wellman that she had just written a children’s book and was looking for an illustrator. Wellman said she majored in life drawing in college and asked the patient if she’d like to see some of her work. The author…
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July 11, 2011
Julie Fremuth is about the best friend an old piece of paper could have. As a conservator trained in preservation at the William L. Clements Library, her job is to save aged books, manuscripts, letters and documents. But her love for old paper goes beyond the walls of her workplace. Fremuth also likes to incorporate…
