Dec 1st celebrated the 1st yr anniversary of the School of Kinesiology at the Univ of Michigan. This past Wed, Katsu Funai became the first doctoral graduate from the Muscle Biology Lab (MBL.Kines) in the School of Kines. Today we had a post-graduate party at George's house celebrating his competion ... in attendance were Dean Greg Cartee (mentor), lab mates Naveen & Kristin Sharma, Carlos and Katherine Castorena (plus 'sin and 'sin), Donel Sequea, Jim Mackrell & host George Schweitzer ... Horowitz lab mates Sean & Lauren Newsome, Rachel and fiancee Josh, the rest of the Funai's: Amanda, Andrew & Seth ... and a couple others. Katsu did an excellent job during his pre-doctoral term, publishing several papers and a review and contributed significantly toward MBL grants and overall progress of publications and helping his lab mates in their work and exams.
Katsu and family are headed for Washington Univ in St. Louis to do his post-doctoral fellowship. I wish Katsu the greatest success and look forward to his continued progress as a contributing researcher.
I hope Katsu learns to listen more than talk. One problem Katsu has always had was talk before thinking which only wastes the time and confuses those trying to ask a question ... many times to someone else. But a grad student is always taught to speak up, ask and answer questions vs being quite and not getting involved. It's like being a star player vs someone on the bench ... you can't wait to get the ball and do your thing. But a good player doesn't just want the ball but works as a team. Right now, Katsu is a young "Kobie Bryant .. just give me the ball and I'll show you how to score". But I have all the confidence in the world that it'll come to him that success involves teamwork and making others stronger, and he has already shown some of these qualities.
Ganbatte kudasai Katsuhito.
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