'Glancing Back, Dancing Forward'
As part of U-M’s bicentennial, "Glancing Back, Dancing Forward" celebrates the long presence of dance on campus through a fast-paced collage of dance works old and new. In this video, Jessica Fogel, professor and chair of the Department of Dance, discusses how the production, which runs through Sunday at the Power Center for the Performing Arts, celebrates dance at U-M.
Sturgeon spawning reefs
U-M researchers are part of a multi-institution team working to restore lake sturgeon — once common in the Great Lakes — by building rock spawning reefs in two Detroit-area rivers. In this video, doctoral candidate Joseph Krieger and Jennifer Read, director of the U-M Water Center, explain the project.
Social justice and the performing arts
As part of their visit to U-M this week, U.S. Justice Sonia Sotomayor and German Justice Susanne Baer discussed social justice and the performing arts with School of Music, Theatre & Dance Dean Aaron Dworkin and his wife, Afa Dworkin, president and artistic director of the Sphinx Organization.
Faculty/Staff Spotlight
"Giving people the tools to make positive changes, both physically and mentally, is why I love coaching CrossFit."
Julie DuChateau, senior multimedia designer at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, who also participates in CrossFit and works as a weightlifting coach in Ann Arbor.
Michigan in the News
Manan Desai, assistant professor of American culture, was interviewed for a story about the 40th anniversary of Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior," an iconic staple of literature classes that blends together stories from Chinese folklore, family secrets and an Asian-American childhood.
"White working-class politics don't really fit into red and blue, conservative and liberal, but they really can be described more in terms of … what is good for their community and their family, and also what's fair and what's moral," said Nadine Hubbs, professor of women's studies and music.
Cliff Lampe, associate professor of information, says that fake news producers will be quick to adapt to ad restrictions by Google and Facebook: "I think this will work for the moment, but I believe that people are going to be able to come up with a workaround and be able to manipulate that attention market in the future."
"Now more than ever, we must pay attention to what ISIS is trying to tell us through its visuals: namely, that it was born and bred into vengeance within the American military-penal complex," wrote Christiane Gruber, associate professor of Islamic art.
Scott Greer, associate professor of health management and policy, was quoted in a story about the political standoff over the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act.
"Consumers expressed a higher level of confidence in January than any other time in the last dozen years. ... Overall, the post-election surge in consumer confidence was based on political promises, and not, as yet, on economic outcomes," said economist Richard Curtin, director of U-M's Surveys of Consumers.
