Multimedia Features

May 27, 2020

Explaining coronavirus to kids

Children are naturally curious, even when facing difficult challenges. This video was created by the School of Public Health for children and their families to share what is known about the coronavirus and outline proven public health methods for personal and community protection.

Read more about efforts to explain the coronavirus to kids

May 22, 2020

Back to the lab

Catherine Polik, a research laboratory technician with LSA’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, has her temperature checked by Lt. Akin A. Bryant of the Division of Public Safety and Security before entering the North University Building on May 21 as DPSS Deputy Chief Crystal James looks on. U-M researchers have started the gradual resumption of on-campus laboratory and studio-based research activity, which is expected to ramp up in waves over the next several weeks. Limited numbers of people will be allowed into specified buildings for approved purposes only, and under new public health-informed safety procedures. (Photo by Roger Hart, Michigan Photography)

Read more about U-M’s research re-engagement process

May 21, 2020

Rise Up

To salute all who are making an impact during this uncertain time, the music therapists at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital put together a heartfelt musical tribute. The video involves the therapists singing “Rise Up” by Andra Day and playing instruments, and also includes spoken messages from pediatric patients, child life specialists and other Michigan Medicine team members who sent in video clips.

Read more about the making of this video tribute

May 20, 2020

Protecting workers

Treating patients with COVID-19 means health care workers are putting their own health and safety on the line each day. Now, two new devices, dubbed Aerosolve, could offer additional safety for health care workers, while allowing more effective treatment of patients with infections spread by respiratory droplets. In this video, researchers from U-M’s Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care describe the devices they designed: a portable negative-pressure helmet and a portable negative-pressure procedural tent.

‘Blossom’ speaks volumes

Arts at Michigan’s latest photography contest has ended, and “Blossom” has been voted the winner. The theme for the competition was “sound,” and this photo by Anders Lundin, an undergraduate studying art and design, was voted tops by the U-M community. Competitions take place periodically throughout the year, with different themes and media for each round.

See the winners and the As I See It photo competition submissions

May 18, 2020

‘Four Years in Blue’

In 2016, the University of Michigan Medical School welcomed 172 new doctors-in-training. Out of this group, 15 students agreed to be followed throughout all four years of their medical training, documenting key milestones in their journeys from the first months on campus until just days before graduation for most of them. In this short film, they tell their stories in their own words with glimpses into the reality of med school life as they lived it.

Read more about the medical students’ journey

May 15, 2020

Plasma jet wands

An ion-emitting wand under development at U-M has the potential to enable quick decontamination of surfaces in hospitals and public places. The project has been funded with a rapid response grant from the National Science Foundation. In this video, John Foster, professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences and of aerospace engineering, and Mirko Gamba, associate professor of aerospace engineering, explain the science beyond this initiative.

Helping, learning in Kenya

U-M faculty and students in dentistry, medicine, pharmacy and engineering are part of a cross-disciplinary partnership working together for a decade to improve health care around the state of Meru in Kenya. Before the coronavirus pandemic reached Kenya, 30 U-M students immersed themselves in a learning and service journey to the east African country. This video explains how the dental students taught older students proper dental hygiene, which they passed along to younger students in an area where dentists are rare.

Read more about this effort to improve dental care in Kenya

May 13, 2020

Bloom celebration canceled

Each spring, Nichols Arboretum at U-M boasts a spectacular display of peonies, drawing large crowds from all over the region. This spring, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the historic peony garden will bloom without visitors. In this video, Bob Grese, director of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, asks people to skip their annual visit and explains how to enjoy the bloom virtually.

Read more about the bloom celebration cancellation

May 11, 2020

Robot business booming

The restaurant business has suffered under the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic, but a U-M startup that builds three-wheeled, autonomous REV-1 delivery robots it trying to prop it up. A pilot deployment of eight robots by Refraction AI is doing four times as many runs since the crisis began. This video explains how the robots operate and their importance during the pandemic.

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