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Faculty Recognitions

Jonathan D. Wells nominated for Golden Apple Award

RC Faculty Virginia Murphy nominated for Golden Apple Award

RC Faculty Elizabeth Goodenough receives a UROP Award

RC Student Wins Sweetland Writing Center Award

RC Students and LSA Students in RC Majors invited to Phi Beta Kappa

RC Students invited to Phi Beta Kappa

RC Students invited to Phi Beta Kappa

RC faculty Michelle McClellan featured on LSA Homepage

RC Faculty Santiago Colas Interviewed by NPR

RC Faculty Santiago Colas interviewed by NPR

RC Alumna Anna Clark to publish a book on Flint water crisis

Four RC students named as Hopwood Award Winners

Writing doors open for international studies, German senior

Musica Mestiza nominated for Emmy

45th Annual Residential College Graduation

RC Instructor Beth Genné in panel on American Dance

Semester in Detroit wins LSA Web Editor Prize

Shakespeare in the Arb - Love's Labours Lost

RC student Maria Fabrizio and COHA

Two RC Alumni and RC Faculty member celebrated for recent publications

Photographing Paris with David Turnley

RC Professor Heather Ann Thompson speaks out

Elizabeth Goodenough recognized by UROP

David Turnley in "Michigan Today"

Heather Ann Thompson in the "New York Times"

Prison Creative Arts Project in the News

RC Alumnus Erik Anderson writes about East Quad

Julia Wolfe, RC '80, named as 2016 MacArthur Fellow

RC Instructor Yago Colas on the LSA Home Page

RC Instructor Mike Gould is in the Michigan Record Spotlight

Semester in Detroit in "The University Record"

Graham MacIndoe and Susan Stellin in the RC

Blood in the Water:

RC Alumna Taylor Nelson in the News

RC faculty member quoted in national periodical

PALMA picnic in December

Former RC Director Tom Weisskopf on NPR

Heather Ann Thompson on The Daily Show

Heather Ann Thompson recipient of Bancroft Prize

Laura Thomas nominated for Golden Apple Teaching Award

Laura Thomas nominated for Golden Apple Teaching Award

Anna Watkins Fisher nominated for Golden Apple Award

Olga Lopez-Cotin nominated for Golden Apple Award

Maria Galvan-Santibanez nominated for Golden Apple Award

Virginia Murphy nominated for Golden Apple Award

Semester in Detroit team wins Provosts' TIP Award

University "Record" Spotlight on Susan Walton

RC Faculty Michael Gould spring break in Cuba

Laura Thomas Book Launch

Heather Ann Thompson wins Pulitzer Prize in History

RC Faculty Deborah Gordon-Gurfinkel talks about "Telling It"

Professor Carl Cohen has retired from the Residential College

Professor Carl Cohen has retired from the Residential College

Laura Kasischke is long-listed for the National Book Award

Naomi André and the U-M African Presidential Scholars

Laura Thomas Interviewed in TheReviewReview

Laura Thomas Featured in Poets and Writers Magazine

RC Alumna Rebecca Blumenstein in the Fall 2017 LSA Magazine

Heather Thompson on Attica Uprising in NYT

Congratulations to all RC Students receiving the Hopwood Award

RC student Josephine Dykstra featured in video about cross-campus project Border Crossers

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2018 Matt Kelley/Granader Family Prize

"Blood in the Water" nominated for LA Times Book Award

Heather Ann Thompson publishes an article in "The Conversation"

RC Alumna Kate Hoin in the news

RC Alumna Wendy Goldberg at the Tonys

Six RC Faculty nominated for Golden Apple Awards

RC Student and U-M alum father interviewed for Bicentennial StoryCorps

10 Hopwood Awards Granted to 7 RC Students (Corrected)

Bicentennial Story Corps Collection Interview Featuring RC Professor Hank Greenspan

Group to honor Naomi André with Shirley Verrett Award

RC Senior Awards Honor Outstanding Students

RC Spanish Language Tutoring Program PALMA Celebrates 15 Years

RC Rising Junior Zari Smith Awarded Critical Language Scholarship

RC Students Win Writing Awards from Sweetland and Honors

50 Students Nominated In Honor of RC's 50th Anniversary

RC Rising Senior Interviewed on NPR for Guide to "Being Not Rich at UM"

$29.3K Awarded to RC Students for Study Abroad and Internships

Recent RC Graduate Presents Interactive Exhibit at East Quad Gallery

RC Faculty Contribute to NY Times About Prison Conditions and Blackness in Opera

The RC Launches a Podcast Series

This is Neither New Nor News (Anymore)

Podcast Episode: Shakespeare the Arb Presents First Romeo and Juliet

RC Visiting Artist and Student Present at Convening of Campus DEI Leaders

Alumni Spotlight: Brett Graham, Class of 2018

RC Creative Writing Professor, Laura Kasischke, Honored as a Distinguished University Professor

Podcast Episode: RC Alumna Anna Clark's book about the Flint water tragedy

Recent Books by RC Faculty Explore Dance in American Film and Black Experiences in Opera

6th Annual PCAP Trip Brings Theater and Michigan Prisoner Art to Brazil

Podcast Episode: Interview with Dr. Harvey Slaughter, RC '72 English

Podcast Episode: Welcoming Sascha Crasnow to U-M

Alumna Jean McGuire, RC '75, Makes Endowment Bequest

Alumna Spotlight: Heidi Elizabeth Philipsen-Meissner, RC '95

RC Hosts Two Artists in Residence Fall 2018

Alumnus Spotlight: Eric Weltman, RC '89

Alumnus Spotlight: Walter Bilderback, '83

Podcast Episode: Samara Jackson Tobey and Native American Heritage Month

Bedside Stories

Alumna Spotlight: Mariama J. Lockington, '07

Alumnus Spotlight: Nicholas Bratton, RC '98

Students in RC Course Create and Present Translations for World Children's Day

Podcast Episode: Dhani Jones, RC '00

How RC Visual Arts Impact Liberal Arts Undergrads

Podcast Episode: Hoai An Pham, RC '19

14 Current and Former RC Students Win Fall 2018 Hopwood Awards (updated)

Alumna Spotlight: Michelle Segar, RC '88

Alumnus Spotlight: Mike North, RC '06

RC's Telling It: Podcast and Partnership with U-M Athletics

Alumna Spotlight: Mihal Rose Ansik, RC '08

Verdi's opera, La traviata, seen through a #MeToo lens

In Memoriam: Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker, 1928-2018

New "How to Think" coursework offered Fall 2019

Six RC faculty nominated for Golden Apple Awards

RC Creative Writing Students Prominent Among Hopwood Awardees Once Again

13 RC Faculty Recognized at U-M Housing's First Annual Honored Instructors Ceremony

RC Senior Awards Conferred April 8

Jennifer Myers Honored with the LSA Excellence in Advising Award

RC Faculty Teresa Sanchez-Snell Recognized with Two Awards

RC Awards $49,284 to Students for Study Away and Internship Experiences

Student Blog: "What language should I learn?"

Podcast Episode: Hank Greenspan and His Retirement

Podcast Episode: Cindy Sowers and Her Retirement

RC Music Head Katri Ervamaa Receives LSA Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education Award

Guest Artist Margrit Straßburger Brings her One-Woman Play to the Keene

The RC Welcomes its 11th Director as Jon Wells Finishes his Term as the 10th

Seattle Opera appoints Professor Naomi André as Scholar in Residence

In Memoriam: Erica Paslick, 1929 - 2019

Alumna Spotlight: Linda Severin, '78

RC Studio Art Program and Ann Arbor District Library welcome Oaxacan visual artist Fulgencio Lazo to Ann Arbor

Alumnus Spotlight: Jerome Vaughn, '87

Student Essay: Stepping Back in the Mojave Desert

RC/LSA Alumna Kymberley Leggett named LSA Dean's Fellow

Podcast Episode: Community of Food, Society & Justice Conference

Alumna Spotlight: Beenish Ahmed, '09

Visiting Artist Elshafei Dafalla leads workshops to create "Blood Underwater" exhibition

In Memoriam: Donald R. Brown, 1925 - 2019

Alumnus Spotlight: Adam Fivenson, '07

RC fourth year Jannah Mandwee receives prestigious Foreign Affairs IT Fellowship

RC Instructors Benefit from Inclusive Teaching Program for LEO Lecturers

RC Drama Students Present Adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Alumna Spotlight: Hannah Rodriguez, '13

Student Blog: "I have no idea what I want to do in life, how am I supposed to choose a major?!"

Eleven RC Students Win Fall 2019 Hopwood Awards

Student Blog: The best places to study and spend free time in Ann Arbor

Student Blog: The "vibe" of the RC

Student Blog: How RC faculty turned one of my most absent-minded decisions into one of my best

Nineteen RC faculty nominated for Golden Apple Awards

Nine Hopwood Awards for RC Students in Winter 2020

Student Blog: Getting involved on campus

Student Blog: Oh, the Places You'll Go as an RC Student!

RC Senior Awards conferred digitally to members of the graduating class

Susan Walton retires after a 24-year career teaching at the RC

Black Lives Matter

RC offers teach-in Uprising Nation 6/10

Fred Peters retires from a career at the RC spanning nearly 40 years

RC summer teach-ins continue with Restorative Justice on 7/29/2020 and more to come

RC Spanish Faculty Member and PALMA Founder Cristhian Espinoza-Pino Receives LSA Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education Award

RC Academic Services Director and Communications and Outreach Specialist Honored with LSA Staff Achievement Awards

Janet Hegman Shier, RC German faculty member and founder of U-M RC Deutsches Theater, retires after teaching at the RC close to 40 years

Rcer Spot: Lucy Cahill, '12 History of Art Major & French Minor

RCer Spot: Riley Russell ('21)

RCer Spot: Chantal Cotton Gaines '08 Political Science

Student Blog: Three Ways the RC Changes Your Perception of Education

Student Blog: 5 Ways RC Instructors Support Their Students!

Rcer Spot: Avery Fessenden ('22)

RCer Spot: Carolina Rizzo ('09)

RCer Spot: Caitlin Cowan ('08 Creative Writing & English)

RC Alumna and Professor Laura Kasischke Delivers the 2020-2021 Robertson Memorial Lecture

Stephen Ward Is Named 2021 Thurnau Professor

RCer Spot: Kelli Wingo ('95 Social Sciences, now called Social Theory & Practice)

First-year RC student Rellian deGraaf releases film "COVID-19 Year in the RC" documenting the student experience during the pandemic

Slave Dwelling Project founder Joseph McGill conducts virtual tour at Monuments of Resilience event

Student Blog: Do RCers ever leave East Quad?

RCer Spot: Z. Lupetin ('07 RC Creative Writing & FTVM)

RC Senior Awards conferred virtually to members of 2021 graduating class

RC Lecturer and RC French Program Head Dominique Butler-Borruat Honored with Prestigious LSA Collegiate Lectureship Named After Sylvie Carduner

Seventeen Hopwood Awards for RC Students in Winter 2021

Student Blog: One of the RC’s Hidden Gems: PCAP

Student Blog: Should I Pursue an RC Major or an LSA Major?

Martin Walsh Retires after 43 years with the Residential College Drama Program

RCer Spot: Sharon (Se Lin) Joh ('19 International Studies)

Long-time RC instructor, academic advisor, and associate director Jennifer Myers retires

RCer Spot: Elizabeth Coleman (Spanish '10)

Student Blog: A Piece of the RC in Taiwan

First Year Seminar Instructor Leslie Stainton Retires

RCer Spot: John Constantine Tobin (Creative Writing & BCN '14)

RC Drama and Arts & Ideas in the Humanities Faculty Members Receive LSA Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education Awards

RCer Spot: Sam Apple ('98 English & Creative Writing)

RCer Spot: Cathryn Gray ('24 Political Science)

RCer Spot: Sharon Brett ('05 Psychology and Crime and Justice)

RC second-year student Nicholas Antony Shares His Quarantine Story

Associate Professor David Turnley Retires

RCers Cole Simon, Abigail Haile, Lena von Moltke, and Agnes Dunne Selected as U-M Institute for the Humanities Interns

Welcome Letter from RC Admissions

“Why I Fight, or Team Wristband” Premiere a Success

RC Welcome Letter from Virginia Murphy

Welcome Letter from RC Language Faculty

U-M Wallenberg Fellow!

RC Students Sweep Hopwoods!

Welcome Letter from RC Community Programs

RC Senior Awards 2022

Welcome Letter from RC Student Affairs

RC Advisor Susan Rosegrant receives LSA Unsung Champion in Advising Award

Honoring 2022 RC Writers: The novelists

Honoring 2022 RC Writers: The poets

Honoring 2022 RC Writers: The short story and essay writers

RC Packing List 2022

RC Summer Orientation is Halfway Through!

RC Students & Office Hours

Paula Berwanger Recieves 2022 Individual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education

Semester in Detroit Expands to all U-M Campuses

Making "the Joy Choice" featuring Michelle Seager

RC's Mike Gould Receives 2023 Harold Haugh Award

RC Student Life: The First Term

RC Student Life: The RC Players

Welcome RC Class of 2027!

RC Student Life: RCLANG as a Third Language

RC Student Life: Living in EQ

Humanize the Numbers

RC Spotlight: Darcy Brandel

RC Senior Awards 2023

Katri Ervamaa Named 2023-2024 Collegiate Lecturer

Isaac Wingfield honored with the Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize

RC Spotlight: Sascha Crasnow

RC Spotlight: Briana Lloyd

Welcome Class of 2027!

New RC Admissions Director!

Remembering Kate

Remembering Carl Cohen

How the Residential College Prepared Me for a Life of Writing

Faculty Perspective: Monsters in London

Angela Dillard named first vice provost for undergraduate education

Welcome Class of 2028!

Semester in Detroit offers Inclusive Immersion Experiences

A Life-Altering Experience: Students Describe Performing “Intimate Apparel” in Michigan Prisons

Nandi Comer: Bridging Worlds Through Poetry

RC Senior Awards 2024

Facing the Pandemic With RC Alum Aji Potter

Deb Hagerty: Entry into the New World

Stuart Hecht's Lifetime Adventure

Mary Basso: Path to Law

Stephanie Beatty: Valuable Addition to the RC ASL Community

This University of Michigan program goes into Southeast Michigan to help kids thrive

Ann Savageau's Guardians: Story of Resilience and Protection

Celebrating Excellence in the RC!

Explore the World with RC Scholarships!

Student Mural in Ann Arbor Pizzeria

Abi Areche Chosen for Patty Grace Smith Engineering Fellowship

New Visual Arts Community Student Award!

Mabel Rodriguez Named 2024 Collegiate Lecturer!

Abi Areche Chosen for Patty Grace Smith Engineering Fellowship

Fall 2020 Public Health-Informed Campus Arrangements

RC Hopwood Winners!

RC Career Connections Series

RC Senior Awards 2025

Administration and Staff

Retired Faculty and Staff

Faculty by Fields of Study

Faculty Publications & Exhibits

Funding & Scholarships for RC Students

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East Quad Public History Project

EQ Murals before the 2013 Renovation

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