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January 16, 2018

Summer Youth Employment Program

U-M’s Poverty Solutions initiative partnered with the Ginsberg Center and other campus offices to help expand and bring significant resources to the Washtenaw County Summer Youth Employment Project, enabling area youth to gain invaluable experiences in professional work settings as they consider their future careers. In this video, program organizers and participants discuss the program and its benefits.

January 14, 2018

MLK Symposium keynote

Taking his message into the audience at Hill Auditorium on Monday, author, actor and philanthropist Hill Harper called on the audience to use its collective power to advocate for change in the spirit of the Rev. Martin Luther King. “Activism is critical because, through activism, we become agents of change,” said Harper, the keynote memorial speaker at U-M’s 2018 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)

January 14, 2018

Oral histories of U-M

During last year’s bicentennial, the U-M Library partnered with the national oral history organization StoryCorps to record and preserve stories from our community. Presented and curated by the U-M Library in collaboration with StoryCorps, these stories capture the essence of the university’s past and present. In the archive’s first entry, Julie Herrada (right), curator of the library’s Labadie Collection, talks with her friend Ari Weinzweig, a U-M alumnus, author and Zingerman’s co-founder, to talk about anarchism and how it relates to building better and more equitable business models. (Photo by Alan Piñon, U-M Library)

January 11, 2018

Staff shares its voice

Staff members at Thursday’s Voices of the Staff Town Hall gathered in small groups, each of which discussed and summarized suggestions related to one of 12 workplace-related topics. Their suggestions were presented to President Mark Schlissel and will be shared with U-M’s executive officers. (Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography)

January 10, 2018

Clinical Simulation Center

U-M has opened a second Clinical Simulation Center location, more than doubling the number of physicians, nurses and students who will be able to practice their skills in a state-of-the-art learning environment. In this photo, James Cooke, executive director of the Clinical Simulation Center and assistant professor of learning health sciences and of family medicine, and Sharon L. Smith, director of professional development and education for nursing services and adjunct clinical assistant professor of nursing, use one of the simulators as Karrie Martis, educational nurse coordinator, looks on. (Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)

January 9, 2018

Cryo-electron microscopy

Recently, three scientists from Europe and the United States received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work developing cryo-electron microscopy. U-M has one of the top cryo-EM labs in the country. In this video, Melanie Ohi, research associate professor at the Life Sciences Institute and associate professor of cell and developmental biology, and Michael Cianfrocco, research assistant professor at LSI and assistant professor of biological chemistry, explain how this technology is revolutionizing biology and how U-M is using it to study things like neurodegenerative diseases and bacterial infections.

January 8, 2018

Video game music

Matthew Thompson, assistant professor of music, is a classically trained pianist who teaches a popular course on video game music at U-M, and is considered a leading expert on video game music. In this video, Thompson discusses the development of video game music, which will be the focus of the 5th annual North American Conference on Video Game Music at U-M this Saturday and Sunday.

January 4, 2018

Taking on tinnitus

Millions of Americans hear ringing in their ears — a condition called tinnitus — and new research shows an experimental device could help quiet the phantom sounds by targeting unruly nerve activity in the brain. Watch this brief video about tinnitus and read more about U-M’s research into treatment.

January 3, 2018

A look back on a big year

The start of a new semester marks the university’s transition from its bicentennial celebration into the next phase of its third century. 2017 was a year of varied and exciting events and academic exploration, and a commemoration of all things U-M — its accomplishments, its history and the people who make it so special. This video takes a look back at some of the highlights of our yearlong 200th birthday party.

December 16, 2017

Graduate gratitude

Giancarlo Mayor, who received a master’s degree in aerospace engineering, waves to his family during Winter Commencement on Sunday at Crisler Center. The ceremony, which also featured the awarding of 10 Bicentennial Alumni Awards, was the final bicentennial event of the university’s 200th year. (Photo by Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography)