John Mitani spent his entire faculty career at University of Michigan (U-M), a career that was not available to either of his parents. Now the first-generation student scholarship he established in their name will help other students spark the passion that leads to their degree.
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In the summer of 2019, at the Pioneers in Primatology symposium at the annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, John Mitani, emeritus professor of anthropology, was asked to give a talk about his career. He had completed teaching his final semester at U-M, where he’d spent his entire…