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Student Spotlight: Tissyana C. Camacho

“In terms of the community at U-M, I’m constantly inspired by everything we have going on here. There is so much interesting work being done all over campus, much of it interdisciplinary. That is unique to Michigan. It’s crazy how much innovation is happening at the...

Student Spotlight: David Mickey-Pabello

Some people just don’t want to leave Ann Arbor. That’s the case with David Mickey-Pabello: he’s been a Michigan student for the bulk of a decade. During that decade, he’s evolved from undergraduate to master’s student to Ph.D. candidate, and he’s picked up a few...

Student Spotlight: Amber Williams

“Sometimes I wish I could take U-M and plug it into a much warmer climate.” Many a graduate student has had the same sentiment, particularly during some of the cold winters we’ve experienced the last couple of years. Born and raised in Houston, Texas and a graduate of...

Student Spotlight: Jacqueline Larios

Jacqueline has lived in France on and off for a few years and finds some interesting comparisons between Paris and Detroit. She notes, “In Paris, immigrants live on outskirts of the city, but in Detroit they concentrate in inner city landscapes. I try to incorporate...

Student Spotlight: Scott De Orio

As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Scott De Orio found his passion for studying sexuality during a yearlong study abroad program in Freiburg, Germany. “I had no idea what kind of a career I wanted for myself,” he explained, until he took a gender...

Student Spotlight: Chen Feng

For his first two years in grad school, Chen joked with his advisor Professor Vineet Kamat that he only went to three places: his apartment, his lab, and Kroger. That was before his girlfriend, Shasha Li, a junior high school classmate who he’s been dating since their...

Student Spotlight: Bonnie Applebeet

“Graduate school is its own special world. Writing the dissertation is both a challenge and a blessing—you have to be in charge of your own progress. The day to day is up to you. Once I really get it down pat it will be a skill I’ll always use. It’s also really...

Student Spotlight: Margaret Fish

This Division I varsity swimmer from Harvard is used to doing laps. Laps take on a whole new meaning for Margaret Fish now as a graduate student driving the loop every day from her home near Central Campus to her lab on North Campus. Margaret is a doctoral candidate...

Student Spotlight: Nick Caverly

Nick is a second year sociocultural anthropology student researching what happens to vacant and abandoned buildings in Detroit. He asserts, “I want to know what happens when people take them apart; the lives of the scrappers and recyclers involved, how things make...

Student Spotlight: Ann-Marie Frankini

Graduate school has been a true labor of love for Ann-Marie. “I don’t believe in retirement. To me, retirement would be working part-time. I want to contribute back to the field in new ways, do basic research and find ways to improve patient care. At 57, completing my...