will take over the publishing beat for the New York Times as a reporter covering both newspapers and magazines. He began working for the Times in 2001 when, as a senior at U-M, he just happened to be sitting by the phone at the Michigan Daily, where he was an editor, when the Times called looking for a stringer. Jeremy did a brief stint as intern in the Detroit bureau before shipping off to St. Thomas, where he was a reporter for two years at the Virgin Islands Daily News. He returned to the States, and to the Times, in 2004 as a stringer in the Detroit bureau, focusing on the disintegration of the auto industry. In 2006 he moved to New York where he worked several beats including Metro and business.

Ryan Donnelly took first prize for web-based applications in the Mobile Application Innovation Challenge competition. His application, Lokuu, is a location-based social networking application that allows you to see what your friends are doing and where they are. Donnelly is a U-M Web Application Developer for Information and Technology Servuces Campus Computing Sites. The competition promoted entrepreneurial thinking and encouraged the U-M community to develop innovative mobile applications.

Tricia Jones’s Frog Survey Tool app for iPhone was selected as a runner-up in the mobile application Innovation Challenge competition. The tool is a data collection application built for citizen scientists to record any type of observation. The app was inspired by Jones’s volunteer efforts with the Ann Arbor Natural Preservation Frog and Toad Survey. Jones is a Research Area Specialist at the U-M Museum of Zoology.
The Innovation Challenge promoted entrepreneurial thinking and encouraged the U-M community to develop innovative mobile applications.

Anthony Abeykoon served in the public service of Sri Lanka for nearly for four decades and retired in 2006. He currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy (www.ihp.lk). He was elected as the Secretary General of the Asian Population Association for the period 2009-2010. He was recently appointed as a Member of the United Nations Population Fund Regional Programme Advisory Group for Asia and the Pacific. The Advisory Group provides guidance to the implementation and review of the Asia and the Pacific Regional Programme.

a 2008 graduate of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, has been awarded a three-year James A. Michener Fellowship in Creative Writing from the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers. The program is considered one of the five most highly selective programs in the country and is consistently ranked as one of the top ten graduate programs in creative writing.

Smith’s poetry was chosen out of almost 1100 submissions in fiction, playwriting, poetry and screenwriting and she becomes one of the twelve newly admitted fellows. Each new fellow receives free tuition, a $25,000 annual stipend for three years with no teaching responsibility, and a $6,000 professional development fund for travel and research.

Financial Advisor Paul Selvin is recognized as one of the top advisors in New York by Barron’s on the “America’s Top 1,000 Advisors: State-by-State” list. “This recognition serves as a testament to the personalized and strategic financial guidance Paul provides for each client to help them pursue their financial goals,” said Linda Houston, managing director for Merrill Lynch in New York City. Selvin resides in Livingston, N.J.

has discovered a connection between Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and binocular vision dysfunction. She had a paper being published in the PM&R Journal this spring on the topic, and was recently interviewed by Channel 7 News in Detroit:

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Dickinson Wright PLLC is pleased to announce that James P. Spica has joined the firm’s Trusts, Estates and Private Client Services team as a member in the Detroit office.

Mr. Spica specializes in estate and tax planning for private clients requiring sophisticated wealth management, advises corporations and individuals on the formation and operation of tax-exempt organizations, provides general and special representations to bank trust departments, private trust companies and public charities and serves as expert witness in litigation involving estate administration and tax planning issues.

Mr. Spica has been a clerk on the U.S. Tax Court and has held a series of law professorships at Wayne State University and the University of Detroit Mercy where he lectured, most recently as a tenured Associate Professor, on taxation, trusts and decedents’ estates. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, is co-author of the Michigan Estate Planning Handbook (2nd ed. 2006 & Supp.), is a member of the Council (governing body) of the Probate and Estate Planning Section of the State Bar of Michigan and a consultant to the Trust Counsel Committee of the Michigan Bankers Association.

Dr. Meinke passed away at his home, surrounded by family, on March 7, 2010 after a brief illness.
A Memorial Service was held on March 21, 2010 at 2:00 P.M. at the First Presbyterian Church of Mason.