by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 17, 2016 | Alumni Spotlights
Roy Hudson didn’t start out with aspirations to be a university president. He didn’t consider executive management a potential career option. He figured his options were fairly straightforward, hoping he could extend his GI bill to cover most of a Master’s degree...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Sep 8, 2016 | Alumni Spotlights
“I told my mom from age 5 that I was going to be a math professor.” Babette fulfilled that early childhood goal – and then some. Currently an Association Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Sep 8, 2016 | Alumni Spotlights
Business can be a force for good. And it should be. With this conviction in mind, Margaret co-founded Apex CoVantage in 1988, to pursue business for the right reasons, in the right way, challenging norms, and channeling the resources generated by the business to...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Sep 8, 2016 | Alumni Spotlights
Carl de Boor is extremely humble about his accomplishments over the course of his long career in mathematics. “My contribution is relatively small; I was at the right place at the right time. I saw what needed to be done. Any competent person would have done the...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Apr 25, 2016 | Alumni Spotlights
Gisselle has been hanging around Rackham for a long time. Initially, she came to participate in the Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) when she was an undergraduate student at the University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez. Through the program, she was drawn...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Apr 18, 2016 | Alumni Spotlights
George Oser didn’t have a plan. Most doctoral alums have a set of goals to accomplish or a career plan to embark upon, but George views things differently. “I’ve never had goals. I just look around and see what is the most interesting for me at the time. I’ve never...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Apr 1, 2016 | Alumni Spotlights
“Our favorite destination is always the next one,” Alfredo Gutierrez says of the extensive travel he and his wife Luz Maria undertake. One of the trips Alfredo frequently makes is back to his graduate alma mater in Ann Arbor. As a former member of the Rackham Board of...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Mar 11, 2016 | Alumni Spotlights
Larry loves his job: ”Being a dean is a general management job. It has all of the functions that go into the president or a general manager of a business. I can apply everything I’ve learned in my Ph.D. and M.B.A. every day of the week. I make decisions around...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Mar 5, 2016 | Alumni Spotlights
When you look around Juliette’s office, you see walls adorned with signed posters from the Detroit Jazz Festival, framed articles on Juliette from local publications, and inspiring artwork from local artists, all representing the deep level of engagement she has with...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Jan 13, 2016 | Alumni Spotlights
“I wasn’t a typical grad student.” While Martha lived in Ann Arbor for only two years, she accomplished a significant amount in that short time frame. She recalls, “People were surprised I was in and out as quickly as I was. Most students in anthropology seemed to...
