2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, June 16, 2003

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Prof. prepares to leave 'U' to
follow husband to New York

A construction worker walks through Hill Auditorium located on North University, last
Friday. The renovations in the auditorium are scheduled to be completed in January.

By Sarah Reaume
For the Daily
Having completed her final lec-
ture at the University, psychology
Prof. Ann Merriwether will be
missed as she heads for the east
coast after seven years.
"Though I am not even a psychol-
ogy major, I happily followed her
from class to class; she had the
ability to captivate, motivate, and
engage her students, whether she
was in a lecture of 600 people or a
seminar of 20," LSA junior Erica
Greene said.
Though sad to be leaving, Merri-
wether is excited to be moving to her
family farm with her husband and two
daughters, age five and nine.
She said she will continue teach-
ing the introduction to psychology
class at the State University of New
York at Binghamton, where her
husband has also been hired to con-
tinue teaching.
"It was a decision of necessity,"
Merriwether said.
"I'll tell you honestly, my hus-
band is an assistant professor of
anthropology and he did not get
tenure. He does genetics, it's pretty
hard to do genetics anywhere."
This is not the first time Merri-
wether has relocated as she came to
the University after teaching at
Penn State for about six years.

But she is reluctant to leave the
University as she is "very happy
here in the Psychology Department,
so it's sad to be leaving."
Several members of the psycholo-
gy department reflect those senti-
ments as well.
"I think she's been a wonderful
teacher, she's a great member in the
developmental area and we're very
sorry to see her go," said Toni Antonuc-
ci, professor of psychology and chair of
developmental psychology.
Stephen Rassi has been a gradu-
ate student instructor who worked
with Merriwether in her Psych 111
class for two semesters.
"She covers topics like the psy-
chological aspects of various meth-
ods of childbirth, and aspects of
developmental psychology relating
to sexual orientation and gender
identity - important topics that
impact our lives, but which often
are glossed over in classrooms else-
where," Rassi said.
"She has been a real inspiration

to me, and she is a good role model
for those of us who are learning to
be better instructors," Rassi added.
Merriwether has impacted stu-
dents as well.
"It was evident every time she
entered the classroom how passion-
ate she was about her job and what
she was teaching, and how much
she cared about her students. She
made course material relevant to
our lives," Greene said.
After completing her Psych 111
class, LSA senior Daniel Aghion
said that she nominated her to
receive the Golden Apple Award.
"I declared my major after taking
her class. She introduced me to the
biopsych field," Aghion said.
Merriwether said what she will
miss the most are "the people that are
here, my colleagues, the staff, all the
people, and of course the graduate
students and the undergrad students."
"Thank goodness for e-mail and
that the world's gotten a little small-
er," Merriwether added.

"... she had the ability to captivate, motivate, and
engage her students, whether she was in a
lecture of 600 people or a seminar of 20"
- Erica Greene
LSA junior

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