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January 16, 2024

Circle of Unity

Cold temperatures prompted the MLK Symposium’s annual Circle of Unity to move inside the LSA Building, but that didn’t chill participants’ enthusiasm. In this photo, they write on a banner about what brings them joy. The event was one of several that took place Jan. 15 as part of U-M’s annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. (Photo by Shannon Schultz, Michigan Photography)

Read about the MLK Symposium’s keynote memorial lecture

January 14, 2024

Hailing the victors!

The thrill of a national championship apparently was more than enough to warm these Wolverine football players and Coach Jim Harbaugh during the Jan. 13 parade celebrating the Wolverines’ 12th national championship in the program’s history. Nor did the brisk weather deter thousands of fans who jammed the parade route along South State Street. (Photo by Erin Kirkland, Michigan Photography)

View a gallery of parade images

January 12, 2024

New room to recharge

Marisa Streelman, strategic adviser in the Office of the Chief Nurse Executive at U-M Health, demonstrates the Flourish Recharge Room technology for Martin Tuck, whose contribution in memory of his late wife made the room possible. Recently, Michigan Medicine became the first health care system in the Midwest to bring Recharge Rooms to its employees. These innovative, immersive mental health interventions were designed to support the well-being and resilience of the hospital’s health care workers. The Flourish Recharge Room at Michigan Medicine features five different scenes to create an interactive mind-body experience. (Photo by Robert Felts, Michigan Medicine)

Read more about the Flourish Recharge Room

January 11, 2024

Reimagining the Bentley

Diana Bachman, left, assistant director for reference services at the Bentley Historical Library, stands with School of Information students Ziyan Zhou, Stephanie Vettese and Clayton Zimmerman in front of the library’s welcome desk. After coordination with two professors, five students and several Bentley staff members, the students have proposed a makeover aimed at making the Bentley’s physical and digital spaces mirror the approachability of its staff. (Photo by Abigail McFee)

Read more about the project and the students’ proposed vision

January 9, 2024

Victors valiant!

U-M football players cheer as head coach Jim Harbaugh hoists the College Football Playoff National Championship trophy following the Wolverines’ 34-13 win over the University of Washington on Jan. 8. The victory capped a 15-0 season, bringing the football program its 12th national title overall and the first since 1997. View a gallery of photos. (Photo by Roger Hart, Michigan Photography)

Read a recap of the championship game

December 17, 2023

Scenes of commencement celebration

From the pageantry of a processional to celebratory selfies, U-M’s Winter Commencement was filled with joy and happy faces as students became alumni Dec. 17 at Crisler Center. Commencement speaker David Brooks told graduates, “The times are calling on your generation to offer that kind of defiant humanism.” (Photos by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)

Read more about the 2023 Winter Commencement ceremony

December 14, 2023

UMCI groundbreaking

The U-M Center for Innovation in Detroit broke ground Dec. 14 in a ceremony featuring leaders of the partners bringing the project to fruition. The $250 million center in downtown Detroit is designed to be a world-class research, education and entrepreneurship center to advance innovation and talent-focused community development. Watch the video.

Impact of dam’s removal

Paul Moore (left), a visiting professor of biology at the U-M Biological Station, talks with Bowling Green State University graduate students Maggie Menso (middle) and Madison Wagner (right) at the UMBS Stream Lab along the Maple River in northern Michigan. The Biological Station and BGSU collaborated to monitor the aquatic ecology of the Maple River before, during and after removal of the Lake Kathleen Dam. The work aims to help guide land managers and conservationists with the ramifications of removing aging dams. (Photo by Chrissy Billau, U-M Biological Station)

Well-being and mental health

In his December video message, President Santa J. Ono encouraged members of the U-M community to take time to assess their well-being and mental health. Ono highlighted LSA’s optiMize, which offers special wellness programming to support students. In this month’s Portrait of a Wolverine, Ono recognized Chief Health Officer Robert Ernst for his work with the Well-being Collective, help establishing a public health response team and other support for a healthy U-M community.

December 12, 2023

Adaptive Sports and Inclusive Recreation Initiative

U-M’s Adaptive Sports & Fitness program aims to provide equitable access to and participation in adaptive sports and fitness among people with and without disabilities in the Ann Arbor community. This video explains how the Adaptive Sports and Inclusive Recreation Initiative, funded by the Michigan Health Endowment Fund, embeds an adaptive sports curriculum into the physical education programming at middle schools. It recently received an additional grant of about $650,000 from Michigan Medicine to expand the program from sixth grade to seventh and eighth, and into Ypsilanti public schools as well as Ann Arbor.