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February 8, 2017

V-BID briefing

Mark Fendrick, professor of internal medicine, and health management and policy, speaks at a congressional briefing Tuesday about the Value-Based Insurance Design concept that allows insurers to align patients’ out-of-pocket costs with the value of services, so they pay the least for tests and treatments that benefit them most. Fendrick has led the development of the V-BID concept at U-M. (Photo by Kristen Lunde)

February 7, 2017

3-D printed orthotics

A new way to design and 3-D print custom prosthetics and orthotics could give amputees, stroke patients and individuals with cerebral palsy lighter, better-fitting assistive devices in a fraction of the time it takes to get them currently. In this video, Albert Shih, professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering; Jeffrey Wensman, director of clinical and technical services at the U-M Orthotics and Prosthetics Center; and Robert Chisena, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, explain the process and its benefits.

February 6, 2017

More efficient brain surgery

A new approach to the practice of surgical pathology for brain tumor patients could make for a powerful combination: more accurate, safer and more efficient operations. In this video, Daniel Orringer, assistant professor of neurosurgery, discusses how the new technique may require less time spent in the operating room.

February 5, 2017

Recycling restroom

U-M researchers recently opened two unique restroom facilities to help them test and refine the idea that urine could be the sustainable fertilizer of the future. The system collects urine from public facilities — a waterless urinal and a split-bowl toilet on the second floor of the G.G. Brown Building — then stores and treats it one floor below so researchers can use it to make fertilizer products, which will be applied to selected trees and shrubs at the Nichols Arboretum and Matthaei Botanical Gardens.

February 2, 2017

‘Glancing Back, Dancing Forward’

As part of U-M’s bicentennial, “Glancing Back, Dancing Forward” celebrates the long presence of dance on campus through a fast-paced collage of dance works old and new. In this video, Jessica Fogel, professor and chair of the Department of Dance, discusses how the production, which runs through Sunday at the Power Center for the Performing Arts, celebrates dance at U-M.

February 1, 2017

Sturgeon spawning reefs

U-M researchers are part of a multi-institution team working to restore lake sturgeon — once common in the Great Lakes — by building rock spawning reefs in two Detroit-area rivers. In this video, doctoral candidate Joseph Krieger and Jennifer Read, director of the U-M Water Center, explain the project.

January 31, 2017

Social justice and the performing arts

As part of their visit to U-M this week, U.S. Justice Sonia Sotomayor and German Justice Susanne Baer discussed social justice and the performing arts with School of Music, Theatre & Dance Dean Aaron Dworkin and his wife, Afa Dworkin, president and artistic director of the Sphinx Organization.

January 30, 2017

Honorary degree

“I can finally say it — Go Blue!” declared U.S. Justice Sonia Sotomayor after President Mark Schlissel presented her with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree Monday. The ceremony occurred before her discussion with German Justice Susanne Baer as part of the first President’s Bicentennial Colloquium. (Photo by Roger Hart, Michigan Photography)

January 29, 2017

Body of work

Serena Williams has more Grand Slam tournament victories than any tennis player in history, and is recognized as one of the greatest athletes of this or any era. Nonetheless, she receives almost as much attention for the way she looks. In this video, Yago Colás, professor of comparative literature and the Residential College, uses Williams as an example to explore issues of race and gender in sports, and why women athletes must still contend with idealized norms of physical female beauty that are often incompatible with peak athletic performance.

January 26, 2017

Taking Tagore to the world

Mousumi Banerjee, research professor of biostatistics, grew up listening to and singing the music of Indian composer Rabindranath Tagore. In an effort to make the music more accessible to the Western world, Banerjee and Indian musician Rajeeb Chakraborty engaged with students at Ann Arbor’s Pioneer High School. In this video, Banerjee and Chakraborty explain their project.