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...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Nov 20, 2015 | Alumni Spotlights
Hugh Kendrick was chased by a lion twice when on foot, found a home away from home via a ship from England, and spent his career hiring and being hired by U-M alumni. Rackham alum Hugh Kendrick is preparing for a reunion trip with a group he and his wife Wendy met on...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 27, 2015 | Alumni Spotlights
Christal admits, “I’ve been a little bit of everywhere.” Her career path has evolved in a non-traditional way, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. Following her U-M Master’s and Ph.D., Christal obtained a law degree from Cornell and began her career as a patent...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 27, 2015 | Alumni Spotlights
Yvonne and Richard Teske have had strong connections to the University of Michigan for more than 50 years. They met in Ann Arbor, where Yvonne received her master’s and doctoral degrees and Richard was a faculty member of the Astronomy department. They came to...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 19, 2015 | Alumni Spotlights
William Craig Rice, Director of the Division of Education Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) since 2007, is both a poet and a scholar, or in his carefully chosen words, a “versifier” and “more an intellectual than an academician.” He hastens...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 19, 2015 | Alumni Spotlights
Along one wall in Anne Curzan’s office is a bookshelf containing hundreds and hundreds of books whose titles all seem to contain permutations of the words “English Language.” Opposite the wall of bursting bookshelves hang plaques and posters documenting marathons and...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 19, 2015 | Alumni Spotlights
This summer, Nate Marshall @illuminatemics taught at a summer writing institute for young people in Chicago. It is work he loves, and it requires a lot of him. But there are several other big things, things that Nate has given a lot of himself to, in the eaves of...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 19, 2015 | Alumni Spotlights
“Children and families,” “anti-poverty,” “community organizing,” “feminism,” “experiential education”–no single keyword encapsulates the breadth of Marcia “Marti” Bombyk’s accomplishments and motivations. Marti was a distinguished student at Michigan...
