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February 14, 2005
She’s a four-mile-a-day walker. She has a 40-minute commute to work—on foot. And she walks so much that she hasn’t owned a car in 18 years. Not impressed? You should be. At 85 years old, Fredda Clisham is leaving commuters half her age in the dust. (Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services) Clisham, a…
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February 7, 2005
Their tiny haunches may not fit into an English saddle, but Janet Hoff has found a way to train lab mice as effectively as she does her horses. Hoff, a lifelong horse lover, teaches mice to perform simple tasks—such as walking across mouse-sized balance beams—as part of her job as research associate and coordinator for…
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January 31, 2005
Joseph Dupont is like the Ellis Island of U-M. Joseph Dupont helps Eun-Jeong Kim of Korea, a graphic design senior. Derrick Ma, a senior work-study student from White Lake, Mich., who is majoring in economics and political science, looks on. (Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) Every year, all of the University’s 1,000 new…
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January 24, 2005
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Sophocles’ Antigone, Plato’s Apology. (Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) Written thousands of years ago, these books have survived wars, calamities and upheavals to be regarded as some of the most significant classical books of all time. Their importance is such that studying them is required of all…
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January 17, 2005
On a cold January morning in Michigan, Jeremy Herr does the unusual: He sets sail. (Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services) With his boating buddies and equipment in tow, Herr arrives in the early morning at Sand Lake—situated about 50 miles southwest of Ann Arbor—and prepares his craft and himself for a day of…
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January 10, 2005
After many years of working on developing instrumentation for ground-based astronomy, Bruce Bigelow—a senior research engineer at the Physics Department—is involved with his first space-based project. (Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) The process that led to this point began many years ago. In 1998, two groups used Type Ia supernovae to measure the…
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December 13, 2004
Renaissance. The word inspires visions of a time when commerce, learning and the arts flourished, of an emergence from darkness into the light. Lifestyles changed dramatically during this prosperous period, particularly in Western Europe. (Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) Three years ago, Denise Yekulis, academic secretary and office manager for the Organizational Studies…
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November 22, 2004
Remember the Rubik’s Cube? The colorful puzzle that fascinated the world in the early 1980s—the cube that was a source of great fun and frustration for a whole generation of people. Becker (Photo by Paul Jaronski, U-M Photo Services) Among those who remember the cube as an enjoyable game rather than as an annoying object…
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November 15, 2004
Tucked away in a corner of the Art and Architecture Building is a huge workshop filled with everything from saws and sanders to sophisticated laser cutters and sheet plastic thermoformers. (Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) On busy days, a cacophony of sounds fills the room as students from the Taubman College of Architecture…
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November 8, 2004
Completing one’s first marathon is a highlight that will be etched in a runner’s memory forever. For Jeremy Hallum, the experience also is etched into the semi-permanence of cyberspace. (Photo by Paul Jaronski, U-M Photo Services) Hallum, the UNIX Systems administrator for the Department of Astronomy, completed his first marathon in Detroit last year. He…
