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For the Love of Teaching: Alum Thrives as a Mentor
Leslie McClure
Leslie McClure measures her success in academia not by her triumphs, but by those she empowers to succeed.
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Leslie McClure measures her success in academia not by her triumphs, but by those she empowers to succeed.
Spending hours as a child doing math puzzles was only part of Mousumi Banerjee’s preparation for a career in biostatistics, where she now applies rigorous statistical analysis to improve clinical and population-wide health outcomes.
When Lisa Richardson began asking herself why black women died more frequently from breast cancer than white women, her public health training kicked into gear. She knew the question had to be answered—and she knew how to make it into a research question.
When Lynda Lisabeth first arrived at the University of Michigan as an undergraduate, it was a transformative experience for her. Today, she is still on campus, researching stroke and teaching the next generation of epidemiologists.
In 35 years at Michigan Public Health, Professor of Biostatistics Michael Boehnke has applied his lifelong love of math to groundbreaking research and teaching that inspires the next generation of public health professionals.
James Martin led a career spanning all the twists and turns of nuclear energy—weaponry to nuclear power and medicine. Within weeks of completing his undergraduate degree, Martin recalls, “I was chasing radioactive fallout clouds in Nevada.”