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June 12, 2006
Sally Gonzales has seen everything, from flooding caused by rambunctious students to clothes with original sales tags discarded at move-out, as she tends to 1,200 undergraduates at South Quad. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) “We’ve had a few floods caused by residents playing ball and hitting a sprinkler head, causing major damage,” says…
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May 22, 2006
The moving frenzy that accompanies graduation is over for another year, but U-M Moving and Trucking Garage Senior Supervisor Thomas Heller and his crews still are taking 6-8 orders a day to move desks or file cabinets, offices or entire departments, laboratories or machine shops, even elevator power plants. (Photo by Lin Jones, U-M Photo…
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May 8, 2006
Romance novelist Susan Charnley is a U-M secretary by day, searching for files, editing papers, formatting Web pages, greeting guests, and more. But the wife and mother of two grown sons, who holds a doctorate in English literature, also gets favorable reviews from critics and grateful fans for her novels. “There was something that happened…
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April 24, 2006
Serving with the Navy Customs Battalion QUEBEC in Kuwait, Warren Noone, like many people in the military, welcomes items that remind him of home. (Photo courtesy Warren Noone) Imagine the excitement when Noone, a Department of Mathematics staff member, stumbled across an especially familiar piece of graffiti painted on a wall in Kuwait—”M Go Blue.”…
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April 17, 2006
“I don’t know what we are having for lunch today, but I can tell you what we are having in two weeks,” says Holly Downey, dining services supervisor for the Lawyer’s Club. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) For 82 years prospective attorneys have eaten meals in the Club in the Law Quadrangle. And…
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April 10, 2006
According to musical choreographer John Luther we should spend our lives becoming, and you could say he’s doing his part. John Luther has choreographed the popular musical “Chicago” twice, including this winter 2003 performance at the Stagecrafters Baldwin Theatre in Royal Oak. (Photo courtesy John Luther) “As humans, we are supposed to be continuously growing,”…
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April 3, 2006
On the sixth floor of C.S.Mott Children’s Hospital there is a room where injured, ill and traumatized children can escape their afflictions. A dress-up castle, a play kitchen, a pool table, an air hockey table, video games, a leather couch, computers and a myriad of board games are available for children in the Activity Center,…
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March 27, 2006
Bill Sanders is a paleontologist, world ambassador, anatomist, experimenter and teacher, and he has spent nearly 20 years at U-M bringing the past to life. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) Sanders, the chief vertebrate preparator for the Museum of Paleontology, has spent the majority of his career studying, helping to recover, and restoring…
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March 20, 2006
Once a month for the past two years, friends have gathered at Bonita Kothe’s home to create handcrafted cards to send to soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait. Happy to receive them, the soldiers, in turn, can write on the blank cards and mail them back to loved ones in the United States. (Photo by…
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March 13, 2006
Weighed down with duffel bags and suitcases, students introduce themselves to roommates while they anxiously familiarize themselves with new surroundings. The sudden influx of people triples the city’s population overnight. (Photo by Bob Vande Kopple) But this is not Ann Arbor, Dearborn, or even Flint. All of this activity takes place more than 200 miles…
