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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…
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March 6, 2006
On the second floor of the Frieze Building is a film library that puts any Blockbuster to shame. Boasting more than 10,000 DVDs and a slew of films in an array of formats—from laserdisc to 16- and 35-mm—the collection spans the golden age of filmmaking. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) “I think it…
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February 20, 2006
When the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra (A2SO) plays a jazzy passage that grows into an energetic, vigorous movement at its March 11 show in the Michigan Theater, Erika Nelson will be watching and listening with particular anticipation and interest. Nelson (Photo by Lin Jones, U-M Photo Services) That’s because Nelson, a marketing assistant for the…
