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April 6, 2017

U-M in World War I

Students from the U-M Reserve Officers’ Training Corps units — Army, Navy and Air Force — commemorated the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War I and the service of U-M students and faculty in that war with a flag-raising ceremony Thursday morning at the north end of the Central Campus Diag. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)

April 5, 2017

Grandmother Tree Walk

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This Weeping Japanese Cherry tree was planted in 1952 and can be found in Nichols Arboretum’s Dow Field. It is one of the trees highlighted in the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Grandmother Tree Walk, a bicentennial, self-guided journey through Michigan time that looks at the people, places and events in U-M’s 200-year history from the perspective of trees. (Photo courtesy of Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum)

April 4, 2017

Nanomaterials in 3-D

Knowledge of nanoscale materials — things 100 nanometers and smaller — is important for researchers designing semiconductors, metal alloys and other advanced materials of the future. Robert Hovden, assistant professor of materials science engineering, has helped develop a new open-source software platform that enables researchers to easily create 3-D images from electron tomography data, then share and manipulate those images in a single platform. In this video, Hovden describes the new platform and what it can do.

April 3, 2017

SPH Service Day

Cathleen Connell, professor of health behavior and health education, and her daughter Frannie help organize inventory for the Kiwanis Club Thrift Sale, which supports a variety of local charities and social agencies. They joined more than 200 School of Public Health volunteers who worked at eight locations in Ann Arbor, Flint and Detroit on Saturday as part of the school’s first Service Day. The goal was to connect students, alumni, faculty and staff with the core purpose of public health — promoting health and engaging the community. (Photo by Peter Smith Photography)

April 2, 2017

Dance for Mother Earth Powwow

Native American dancers participate in the 45th Annual Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, which took place at Ann Arbor’s Skyline High School over the weekend. The event serves to renew and strengthen Native American culture, and is coordinated by U-M’s Native American Student Association in collaboration with the Native American Student Organization at Eastern Michigan University. (Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)

March 30, 2017

Safer rockets

Rocket combustion instability has been a challenge for aerospace engineers since the prototype engines of the Apollo space program. In an attempt to enable future engineers to better design rocket engines that do not fail, the Air Force has established a center of excellence for rocket combustor dynamics with Karthik Duraisamy, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, in collaboration with Purdue, MIT, and Wisconsin. In this video, Duraisamy outlines an initial computer simulation of rocket combustor dynamics.

March 29, 2017

Advancing economic development

From left, U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, talks with Larry Molnar and Paula Sorrell from U-M’s Institute for Research on Labor, the Economy and Employment at a Washington, D.C., breakfast Wednesday. Sorrell and Molnar were in Washington to promote IRLEE’s economic development activities around Michigan and the Upper Midwest, including a program to aid small defense contract suppliers facing uncertain economic times. (Photo by Mike Waring, Washington Office)

March 28, 2017

Democratic to authoritarian rule

Once thought to be largely on the way out, authoritarian rule has found its way back into world politics. This resurgence, along with an increasingly polarized political climate in the United States and abroad, will be the focus of the first U-M “teach-out” Friday in which seven history and political science experts will lead a global digital learning experience. In this video, Arun Agrawal, Samuel Trask Dana Professor, professor of natural resources, and faculty associate at the Center for Political Studies, discusses the factors that will drive the discussion.

March 27, 2017

Bangladesh collaborations

Martin Philbert, dean of the School of Public Health, listens to Afroz Huda, senior adviser for the Foundation for Charitable Activities in Bangladesh, during a February visit to to the South Asian nation. U-M researchers were in Bangladesh to explore collaborative opportunities for research partnerships that would study such issues as poverty, infant mortality and chronic health problems. (Photo by M. Ponir Hussain)

March 26, 2017

Burton Tower in maize and blue

In celebration of the university’s 200th year, the iconic Burton Tower will glow in new maize and blue lighting for the bicentennial’s UMich200 Spring Festival. Starting the week of April 3, the tower will be illuminated in white lights. The lights will transition to maize and blue and end with a multimedia light show supporting the “True Blue! A Tribute to Michigan,” event at Hill Auditorium on April 8. (Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography)