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November 21, 2017

Giving Blueday 2017

Giving Blueday 2017 gives U-M supporters a special opportunity to continue the bicentennial commemoration and throw U-M one big birthday celebration. This video shows how donors can use the 24-hour Nov. 28 event to support the causes, schools, units or student organizations that you feel most passionate about.

November 20, 2017

Learning from burning

In October, researchers and firefighters established a sixth controlled “burn plot” at the U-M Biological Station near Pellston, Michigan, in a long-running experiment to approximate, on a tiny scale, the lumbering and wildfire disturbances that transformed Upper Great Lakes forests more than a century ago. In this video, researchers explain how burn plots established over the years provide information about how forests recover from such disturbances.

November 19, 2017

Faster 3-D printing

Researchers at the College of Engineering have developed algorithms to speed up consumer 3-D printers without sacrificing quality. This video outlines the research conducted in the Smart and Sustainable Automation Research Lab under Chinedum Okwudire, associate professor of mechanical engineering. The research was led by Ph.D. candidates Deokkyun Yoon and Molong Duan.

November 16, 2017

Navigate to Michigan

U-M values the unique experiences and perspectives that veterans and military members bring to the diverse campus community, and it provides the resources and expertise to help them thrive. In this video, student veterans discuss what drew them to the university.

November 15, 2017

Staff Impact Awards

To recognize the outstanding contributions of its staff, U-M has created the Staff Impact Awards to celebrate those who champion volunteerism and service within the university — going above and beyond by taking on additional challenges. In this video, Kevin Hegarty, executive vice president and chief financial officer, describes what the university is seeking to recognize with the new awards.

November 14, 2017

Dramatizing injustice

Racially motivated criminal injustice is the topic of “Blood at the Root,” a drama by School of Music, Theatre & Dance alumna Dominique Morisseau being presented Thursday through Sunday by the Department of Theatre & Drama. Each performance will be followed by moderated discussions about the play’s issues, which reverberate today. In this video, the director and some of the student actors discuss the impact of the play, which centers around the 2006 “Jena Six” case in Louisiana.

November 13, 2017

Dynamic trios at UM-Dearborn

Showcasing innovative faculty research, the first UM-Dearborn MCubed event, “Hail to the Cube,” took place Monday with a poster session with more than 30 projects, including these involving student research assistants Malak Nasser (left) and Monica De Roche. Part of U-M’s larger MCubed research funding initiative, each project’s group has three faculty members granted various levels of funding — from $15,000 to $60,000 — in three-year cycles. Teams must have members representing at least two different academic departments at the Ann Arbor or Dearborn campuses. (Photo by Jason Bolton)

November 12, 2017

The way it was meant to be

“An American in Paris,” a tone poem by George Gershwin that premiered in 1928, is the first project of the George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition to be published by the University of Michigan and Schott Music Group. In this video, Mark Clague, director of U-M’s Gershwin Initiative and associate professor of musicology, discusses notable findings of the new edition.

November 9, 2017

Swim with the robots

With a customized Iver 3 underwater drone, assistant professor of naval architecture and marine engineering Matthew Kai Johnson-Roberson, and his team in the Deep Robotic Optical Perception Lab have a new set of underwater eyes that could provide regulatory agencies, scientists and the public with a window into the health of the world’s lakes and oceans. This video shows how the drone is used to monitor and map the Great Lakes.

November 8, 2017

Trotter Center groundbreaking

Members of the university community gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday at the site of the new William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center on South State Street. Turning a ceremonial first shovelful of dirt are, from left, Vice President for Student Affairs E. Royster Harper; Logan Pratt, a recent graduate and member of the Trotter Advisory Committee; President Mark Schlissel; Leo Thornton and Satra Taylor, student staff members at the Trotter Center; and Michael Swanigan, the center’s interim director. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)