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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…
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May 12, 2008
The slate kitchen countertops, hard wood floors and cherry wood cabinets in Kurt Thoma’s Ypsilanti home reveal something of the Hill Auditorium house technician. (Photo by Scott Soderberg, U-M Photo Services) Thoma, who sometimes runs sound and lights at Rackham Auditorium, the Power Center for the Performing Arts and other University venues, appreciates quality. This…
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April 28, 2008
From the moment Dr. David Jacobson walks through the door of the Patient Admitting and Emergency Services (PAES) Clinic at the School of Dentistry, his to-do-list never ends. “This isn’t a job for someone who doesn’t own a good pair of sneakers,” says Jacobson, director of the clinic. A staff dentist for 20 years, Jacobson…
