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December 14, 2009
Red and green lasers shine out of vintage lunchboxes and swirl against Mike Gould’s basement laboratory walls in a whimsical fashion. Synchronized to music, the lasers can lead to hours of mindless enjoyment, he says. (Photo by Mike Gould) “Lasers are ideal mechanisms to explore the intersection of art and technology,” says Gould, a desktop…
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December 7, 2009
It’s easy to say Lizzie Burt is in tip-top shape. “I’ve completed three Boston Marathons,” she says. She has also competed multiple times in the Hawaii Ironman, and “by the fourth time, I won my age division.” But Burt, a culinary specialist with MHealthy, wasn’t always so active. Photo by Scott Soderberg, Photo Services After…
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November 23, 2009
Steve Carmody is used to looking familiar to people he’s never met. After a 30-year career in journalism and a stint on reality television, he says it’s to be expected. “For a while I would run into people at airports who recognized me,” says Carmody, a general assignment reporter for Michigan Radio. “I thought, ‘How…
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November 16, 2009
Kai Petainen loves a good adventure. Whether it’s swimming in the Arctic Ocean or hiking mountains in the Yukon, you can count him in. Petainen, the trading floor manager of the Tozzi Finance Center at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, takes annual trips with his wife to places that most people only dream…
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November 9, 2009
From art connoisseur to creative novices, most people who walk into a gallery or museum understand the important role played by the curators and exhibition staff. “You can’t just hang a painting on a nail and wipe your hands and walk away,” says School of Art and Design (A&D) Exhibition Coordinator Mark Nielsen. “Every element…
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November 2, 2009
Some kids grow up wanting to be a rock star. Crystal Borgman became one, at least locally. Borgman, a desktop support specialist at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, spends her extra hours playing drums in a local band, Lagerhaus5. “The name was derived from my husband’s and the lead guitarist’s shared love…
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October 26, 2009
Ryan N. Wilcox is a technology guru by day and his wife’s comic book career manager by night. Not unlike the protagonists in many comic books, Wilcox and his wife, illustrator Katie Cook, maintain double lives, each attending their 9-5 jobs and then rendezvousing at home for hours of brainstorming, storyboarding and illustrating. (Photo by…
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October 19, 2009
Sooner or later, some people are bound to have a life-changing experience. For Alex Pompe, his came when he joined the Peace Corps. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) Pompe, a Peace Corps campus coordinator at The International Center and a first-year graduate student in the School of Information, was inspired by his past…
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October 12, 2009
Katy Mattingly isn’t afraid to walk alone at night. The executive secretary in the Division of Student Affairs is a self-defense instructor in her free time, and she knows that, if necessary, she could stop any attacker in his or her tracks. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) Mattingly wasn’t always planning to teach…
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October 5, 2009
For some people, eating locally grown food is one way to support the local economy, promote environmentally friendly farming habits and create a strong sense of community. For Garin Fons, it “just comes down to the fact that local food tastes better.” (Photo by Austin Thomason, U-M Photo Services) Fons, an open education specialist in…
