Campus News
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April 27, 2015
Profiles from the Class of 2015
Each year The University Record profiles several graduating seniors who highlight the range of experiences and people who attend U-M. Profiles from the Class of 2015 are:
• Danny Freed, who co-founded Companion, an app that helps promote late-night safety.
• Hillary Kooistra, whose internships have helped further a passion for dance.
• Caroline Schaper, whose work as a sketch comedy writer and actor led to an internship with David Letterman.
• Leontine Wallace, who draws on her personal life challenges to inform her training as a nurse.
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April 27, 2015
Five faculty projects honored for innovative teaching methods
Five U-M faculty projects that demonstrate fresh approaches to advancing student learning are winners of the seventh annual Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize.
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April 27, 2015
Nominations sought for position on police oversight committee
The election to fill the union representative staff position on the university’s Police Department Oversight Committee will take place over the next several weeks.
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April 27, 2015
Third annual HRD Career Conference coming in June
Human Resource Development’s third annual Career Conference is June 16, designed to inspire faculty and staff to take more responsibility for their career aspirations.
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April 27, 2015
Media lab consultant finds intersection of social justice, art and science
Carlos Garcia, one of the four artists in Complex Movements, also works as managing consultant at GroundWorks Media Lab in the Duderstadt Library’s Digital Media Commons. Garcia graduated from U-M in 2012 with a degree in performing arts technology and a concentration in engineering.
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April 27, 2015
Campus briefs
News from around the university.
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April 27, 2015
Ross School senior to graduate with BBA, app
Danny Freed comes from a long line of University of Michigan alums, but is the first to graduate with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and an app. Freed, 21, of West Bloomfield, is a co-founder of Companion, an app that helps your friends and family keep an eye on you while you walk home… -
April 27, 2015
SMTD senior passionate about dance
What do you do when you’re stranded late at night with a flat tire and 11 professional dancers? Just ask senior Hillary Kooistra. Kooistra, a student at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, was one of this year’s 21st Century Artist Interns. The internship, a collaboration between SMTD and the University Musical Society, matches… -
April 24, 2015
Obituary: Victor Streeter
Victor Streeter, a U-M alum and former Civil and Environmental Engineering professor, died April 15 at the age of 105.
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April 23, 2015
Campuses, units to celebrate Spring Commencement
A roundup of Spring Commencement ceremonies, including the main event Michigan Stadium, unit celebrations and ceremonies at the UM-Dearborn and UM-Flint campuses.
