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September 6, 2017

Kinetic sculpture

A new 14,000-pound, 25-foot-tall kinetic sculpture, “3 Cubes in a Seven Axis Relationship,” was installed recently on North Campus in front of the entrance of G. G. Brown Building on Hayward Avenue. The sculpture is designed by Northern Californian artist Philip Stewart and took two years to complete after being commissioned by College of Engineering in honor of Charles M. Vest, a U-M alumnus, and former provost and engineering dean.

September 4, 2017

Welcome Back to Michigan

New discoveries, good friends, favorite places and amazing knowledge are waiting as we begin the academic year during the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial. This video welcomes faculty, staff and students back to a new year and new adventures.

August 24, 2017

Spirit of Detroit Goes Blue!

The university celebrated its birthday Aug. 26, the day it was founded 200 years ago in Detroit. To mark the occasion, the Spirit of Detroit statue was dressed with a bicentennial T-shirt. This video captures the process of placing the maize and blue garb on the iconic structure at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, where it will remain for the rest of August. U-M will honor its ties to both the city and native peoples during a Sept. 15 festival in downtown Detroit.

August 21, 2017

Antarctic expedition

Melissa Duhaime, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Rachel Cable, a research technician in her lab, spent time on a Russian research vessel earlier this year as the ship circumnavigated Antarctica. Cable was there for the entire three-month voyage and was joined by Duhaime for about a month. In this video, they discuss the journey and how it fits in to Duhaime’s research into the complex relationships between aquatic microbes, the viruses that infect them, and their environment.

August 13, 2017

Summer Youth Employment Program

U-M Summer Youth Employment Program participant Emory Kimball, pictured here with Administrative Specialist Tanya Milligan, interns in the Office of University Development, where he works on donor lists and social media. Kimball is among 40 area youths are working in departments across campus this summer as part of the program, spearheaded by the university’s Poverty Solutions initiative. (Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)

August 6, 2017

D-SIP showcase

Ashley Wilson, an incoming senior at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, presented her fundraising project at the annual Development Summer Internship Showcase, which took place Aug. 4 at Palmer Commons. As an intern at the School of Education, she was one of 27 students who participated in the 11th Development Summer Internship Program in the Office of University Development. Each intern works on a project in a different school, college or unit and earns credit for a course in philanthropy. (Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)

July 31, 2017

Make an event zero waste

More than a third of the waste generated on U-M’s Ann Arbor campus can be composted. This video explains how the Zero Waste Program provides assistance and resources for event planners to use recyclable or compostable materials to divert waste from the landfill. The effort supports U-M’s goal to reduce waste sent to landfills by 40 percent by 2025.

July 25, 2017

Robotic underwater lab

A new tool to safeguard drinking water is now keeping a watchful eye on Lake Erie. A robotic lake-bottom laboratory is tracking the levels of dangerous toxins produced by algae that bloom each summer in the lake’s western basin. This video explores the collaboration between U-M’s Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor.

July 18, 2017

Cool Project in Cuba

The Erb Institute’s effort to promote sustainability through the power of business includes a program called “Cool Projects.” In this video, dual master’s degree student Nick Barret explains how the program allowed him to travel to Cuba to learn more about how that country’s renewable energy future might lie in the development of biomass power generation using sugarcane as a fuel source.

July 6, 2017

Straw bale house

Twenty-two U-M undergraduates, led by Joe Trumpey, associate professor of art, of natural resources, and of environment, used 200 bales of straw and some mud to build U-M’s first off-the-grid structure. Poised on a hilltop overlooking Douglas Lake at the U-M Biological Station, it is the university’s first foray into straw bale building, and the first student-built structure in more than 100 years. In this video, Trumpey describes how it came to be.