Multimedia Features | The University Record

April 29, 2025

Meet and greet

Each year The University Record profiles prospective graduates who highlight the range of experiences enjoyed by students attending U-M. Get to know, from left, Cameron Allen from The Ross School; Jake Downey from LSA/SEAS; Julia Kassab from UMSI; Premma Mehta from LSA; and Robyn Raimey from the Marsal School.

Read more about these prospective graaduates

April 28, 2025

Filling a gap

Each year, the U-M dental school’s Community-Based Collaborative Care & Education program places students in 17 federally qualified health centers across the state. Between 2004 and 2024, CBCE dental students completed 862,449 procedures valued at nearly $202 million. In this video, the students discuss their experiences at Thunder Bay Community Health Service in Atlanta, a community with a population of about 700 in northern Michigan.

April 25, 2025

Remote repairs

Veera Sundararaghavan, professor of aerospace engineering in the College of Engineering, and his Ph.D student Michael Pilipchuk are reflected in a 3D printer. To find out how long 3D-printed metal parts are likely to last in the field, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is providing up to $10.3 million to a team led by U-M. “If PRIME takes off, it’s like giving 3D printing a crystal ball,” Sundararaghavan said. (Marcin Szczepanski, College of Engineering)

Read more about discovering the longevity of 3D-printed metal parts

April 24, 2025

ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards

The 2024 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award recipients are, back row from left, Rackham Graduate School Dean Mike Solomon; Jennifer Triplett, sociology; Alisher Duspayev, physics; and Darian Santana, microbiology and immunology; and front row from left Emily Coccia, English and women’s and gender studies; Alejo Stark, romance languages and literature; Felicia Hardi, psychology; and Noam Gannot, oral health sciences and biologic and materials sciences. Not pictured are Subha Maity, statistics; Rodrigo Tinoco Figueroa, earth and environmental sciences; and Emily Wearing, chemistry. The awards recognize exceptional work produced by doctoral students for the high caliber of their scholarship and the significance and interest of their findings. (Photo by Jose Juarez)

New home for a Tappan Oak descendant

Chayce Griffith poses with a plaque and a shovel April 22 after helping plant a sapling from the historic Tappan Oak at its new site near the Alumni Center. When he was a student at U-M, Griffith collected acorns from the Tappan Oak and tried growing several saplings. Two took hold, and when he learned of the Tappan Oak’s removal in 2021, he offered one to U-M. The sapling was planted at its new home on Earth Day. (Connor Titsworth, Michigan Commons)

Read more about the planting of the Tappan Oak sapling

April 22, 2025

‘counting sheep’

The winner of the Arts Initiative’s recent Peaceful-themed Photo Competition is “counting sheep” by Erin Murphy, a senior studying English at UM-Dearborn.

View all the finalists in the competition

April 20, 2025

Winning Wolverines

The men’s gymnastics team celebrates after winning the program’s seventh NCAA Championship on April 19 at Crisler Center in a meet that was decided on Paul Juda’s final vault. The victory secured U-M’s first NCAA title since 2014. Seven Wolverines combined for 17 All-America citations, with Fred Richard earning All-America honors on all six events and in the all-around. (Michigan Photography, courtesy of Athletics)

Read more about the team’s national championship

April 17, 2025

The order that launched a revolution

Cheney Schopieray, curator of manuscripts at the William L. Clements Library, with manuscripts from the Thomas Gage Papers collection. The start of the Revolutionary War 250 years ago can be traced to one manuscript containing the orders for the Concord Expedition on April 18, 1775. The physical quill-to-paper draft orders written by famed British Army officer Thomas Gage’s hand, which sparked the battles of Lexington and Concord, are housed at the William L. Clements Library. (Jeremy Marble, Michigan News)

Read more about this piece of history on display at U-M

April 15, 2025

Solving global issues without breaking the bank

Rather than working on hypothetical case studies, U-M undergraduate business and MBA students in the Vienna Spring Break program through the Stephen M. Ross School of Business got real-world, hands-on experience. Taught by faculty at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, students collaborated with Austrian companies facing real business challenges — and thanks to a redesign of the program, did not need to spend a lot of money to do so. In this video, Jessica Oldford, managing director of Ross Global Initiatives, and Ross student Vanessa Perozo discuss the program and the experience.

April 14, 2025

A life preserver for U.S. shipbuilding

Thomas McKenney, clinical associate professor of naval architecture and marine engineering, and his students toured the Mark W. Barker while it was laid up for the winter at the Nicholson Dock in River Rouge. Another ship, the Herbert C. Jackson, is moored next to Barker. As the White House looks to shore up U.S. shipbuilding, U-M is leading efforts to train the needed workforce and develop a statewide maritime strategy with one of the nation’s few departments dedicated to naval architecture and marine engineering, which was established by Congress more than 140 years ago. (Photo by Marcin Szczepanski, College of Engineering)