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February 16, 2004
A typical spring breaker in Costa Rica might spend the week swimming, tanning and shopping. This year, one woman will lead a group of students, faculty and staff through Costa Rican farms, ocean waters and lush rainforests in hopes of teaching environmental conservation and leadership development. (Photo courtesy Jeannette Stawski) Jeannette Stawski is the director…
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December 15, 2003
Get good grades, stay out the cage, and don’t catch the AIDS. Ain’t my business but it’s a death sentence. All glitter ain’t gold, what about your soul? Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services These are the lyrics of gospel rapper Gapp-Dwella, also known as Roderick James, a medical assistant at the East Ann…
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December 8, 2003
A team of elves recently has been spotted donating stockings filled with goodies to patients spending their holidays in the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center, spreading good cheer throughout the U-M Health System, and making hundreds of adults and children feel more comfortable during cancer treatment. (Photo by Paul Jaronski, U-M Photo Services) The volunteers reside…
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November 10, 2003
Mary Price, assistant director of LSA’s Institute for the Humanities, always has been interested in community service. After attending a Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Community Service Day in 1995, she found a new way to volunteer in her free time that allows her to help others through a love of knitting. (Photo by Paul…
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October 13, 2003
When Nancy Bates, interim key administrator for the Department of Physics, stepped foot on campus in 1953, U-M was a vastly different place than we know today. “When I came (to U-M), there were 13,900 students, curfews in the dorms and women couldn’t go in the front door of the Union,” Bates says. “There was…
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September 29, 2003
Eating out doesn’t have to mean consuming too many calories or too much fat. That’s why Cathy Fitzgerald is so passionate about her job as a registered dietitian for the U-M Health System MFit Health Promotion Division’s MFit Healthy Dining Program. She is on a mission to provide people with healthy options when they dine…
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September 22, 2003
While other people are worrying about the lack of parking around campus, rising gas costs and overcrowded roads, Riin Gill is busy pedaling her worries away on a red GT Windstream comfort bike. (Photo by Paul Jaronski, U-M Photo Services) Gill, head of interlibrary loans at the Taubman Medical Library, has been a full-time bike…
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September 15, 2003
(Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services) Even before he became the University’s planetarium director, Matthew Linke was gazing at the sky with wonder and awe. Linke’s connection with the planetarium field spans a quarter century, but his interest in the stars spans a lifetime. A graduate of Central Michigan University, Linke long has been…
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September 8, 2003
(Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) Doug White enjoys sculpting on different levels. By day, White helps shape the college experience of students with disabilities or chronic health conditions who live in the University’s residence halls. By night, he engages in his passion: sculpture. White, senior housing advisor, who has been at the University…
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September 2, 2003
Wendy Sielaff isn’t acting when she interacts with patients at Kellogg Eye Center, but she believes it is her experience on the stage since high school that helps her make the people she serves more comfortable. Michael LaFlamme, who plays the role of Mary Sunshine, and director Wendy Sielaff rehearse for the Ann Arbor Civic…
