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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.

January 25, 2017

Innovation at IHPI

The Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation is a place where intellectual energy and passion for improving public health converge. This video illustrates how it’s a vibrant home for health services researchers from multiple disciplines to collaborate and tackle some of the toughest issues in health and health care.

January 24, 2017

New president at UMS

Matthew VanBesien discusses his new role as president of the University Musical Society and what attracted him to it. VanBesien, currently president of the New York Philharmonic, will assume leadership of UMS in July.

January 23, 2017

Music and science

The University Symphony Orchestra will take a tour of the solar system Wednesday when it performs Mozart’s “Jupiter Symphony” and Holst’s “The Planets.” This video previews the performance, which will accompany the Ann Arbor premiere of a film by U-M alumnus José Francisco Salgado, highlighting the deep connections between art and science. The concert at Hill Auditorium begins at 8 p.m. and is free to the public.

January 22, 2017

Atomic Highways and Byways

In this video, artist Joan Linder provides insight and a tour of the primary site she illustrated for her exhibition “Atomic Highways and Byways,” near Willow Run Airport. The exhibition, which runs through March 10 at the Institute for the Humanities, 202 S. Thayer, also looks at two toxic landscapes near Niagara Falls and the ways in which all three are interconnected.

January 19, 2017

Campus Farm

Campus Farm volunteers work to build a hoop house at the farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. The hoop house extends the growing season on both ends and will allow more students to engage with the farm during the academic year. (Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography)

January 18, 2017

Horowitz’s Steinway

Students and faculty at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance recently had the extraordinary opportunity of performing on the Steinway piano that was the personal instrument of the 20th century’s premier pianist, Vladimir Horowitz. In this video, Christopher Harding, associate professor of music, and Robert Grijalva, assistant professor of music, discuss the instrument’s significance.

January 17, 2017

Leadership Crisis Challenge

Students playing the role of angry citizens “protest” a fictional water-contamination crisis as part of the 2017 Leadership Crisis Challenge, a 24-hour simulation in which U-M students tackle an ever-changing crisis situation. Read more about the graduate student challenge, which took place last week and was organized by the Sanger Leadership Center at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. The undergraduate challenge will be March 23-24. (Photo by Lon Horwedel)

January 16, 2017

MLK keynote discussion

Journalist Amy Goodman (left) interviews actress, writer and producer Issa Rae during Monday’s keynote event kicking off the 31st Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium at Hill Auditorium. (Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)