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September 29, 2008
Jeanie Mack-Powers says her work as a volunteer docent at the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA) compliments her job as a clinical nurse helping cancer patients. (Photo by Lin Jones, U-M Photo Services) “I do see sick people and some are dying. I go the museum and my cup gets filled up about life,” she…
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September 22, 2008
On a good day, U-M Medical School Diversity & Career Development Office (DCDO) Health Career Programs Manager and youth mentor Princess Currence does not need an iPod or radio on her drive home. “When they believe in themselves like I believe in them, that is what brings me joy — that is what sends me…
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September 15, 2008
Some would say Jodi Korte is generous with her time, as she has made two trips to Louisiana to help Hurricane Katrina victims and plans a third in October that she scheduled before Hurricane Gustav struck earlier this month. (Photo by Lin Jones, U-M Photo Services) But Korte says she has received more than she…
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September 8, 2008
The clean, litter-free stairs, stairwells and elevators in campus parking structures are thanks to parking maintenance workers like Garnet Sharpe. (Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services) Sharpe, an Ann Arbor native now living in Milan, has worked for the University since 1977. “We pick up trash and check the stairwells, check elevators, check stairways…
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September 2, 2008
In 48 years at the U-M Golf Course, Charlie Green has known the sports greats and even met a president. “I like to tell people I’ve been blessed to be on a first-name basis with people here that you read about in books,” says Green, golf course manager. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services)…
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August 11, 2008
In this ever-evolving computer age there are myths to expose and tips to spread about energy-smart computer use. MaryBeth Stuenkel uses her jobs at U-M to do both. (Photo by Scott Soderberg, U-M Photo Services) One myth involves turning off computers at night. Stuenkel, who evenly splits her time as a team lead with the…
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July 28, 2008
Keeping the media happy may seem like a difficult job for some, but not for U-M Health System‘s Kara Gavin. (Photo by Scott Soderberg, U-M Photo Services) “I think the key is I was trained as a reporter, so I know where they’re coming from,” says Gavin, lead public relations representative. Experience in how to…
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July 14, 2008
As a boy, New Orleans-born Chris Smith tagged along with his jazz trombonist father to gigs in the Ann Arbor area. (Photo by Lin Jones, U-M Photo Services) “Some of my earliest memories are of being on stage with my dad. I knew from a very young age that playing jazz was something I was…
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June 23, 2008
Those neon sea creatures are actually dying photoreceptors in the human retina. And that intense blue-green hot air balloon-looking thing, complete with gondola, is really a salamander sperm cell. (Photo by Scott Soderberg, U-M Photo Services) These images are among those collected through the nearly matchless BioArtography project, which celebrates microscopic tissue photography as art.…
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May 27, 2008
Riding in President George H. W. Bush’s motorcade is just one of the perks of working as a vehicle mechanic for the University, if you’re Gordy Peters. (Photo by Lin Jones, U-M Photo Services) The heavy equipment mechanic, a University employee 33 years, was asked to transport a van of press people in that motorcade…
