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October 10, 2017

2017 faculty awards

Provost Martin Philbert presents a Faculty Recognition Award to Margherita Fontana, professor of dentistry, during Monday’s annual faculty awards ceremony at the U-M Museum of Art. She was one of 31 faculty members honored for their teaching, scholarship, service and creative activities. (Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography)

October 9, 2017

Engineering Laboratory Building

This video takes a look at UM-Dearbon’s new Engineering Laboratory Building, for which construction is expected to begin in spring 2018. Once completed, it will include 123,000 square feet of space — 57,000 square feet of renovation and 66,000 of new building construction.

October 8, 2017

Moving museums

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LSA’s museums are continuing the process of moving to new homes. The museums of anthropological archaeology, paleontology and zoology are now housed in the Research Museums Center on Varsity Drive, and the Museum of Natural History will eventually take up residence the new Biological Science Building. Meanwhile, here’s a visual history of LSA’s museums from 1817 to the present.

October 5, 2017

Racing with the sun

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The U-M Solar Car Team and its bullet-shaped vehicle Novum — Latin for “new thing” — will attempt to win the 2017 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, a biennial race across the Australian Outback that begins this weekend. More photos of the team in action.

October 4, 2017

Making fitness trackers work for you

Popular fitness trackers don’t inherently make us move. Rather, it’s the way that exercise makes us feel that ultimately motivates us to get active. In this video, Michelle Segar, director of the Sport, Health and Activity Research and Policy Center, explains how finding the right “why” and the right “way” will help people get the most out of their fitness tracker.

October 3, 2017

Precision Health at U-M

Precision Health at the University of Michigan, a new initiative that President Mark Schlissel announced Tuesday, will bring together researchers from across the university to facilitate new and exciting research on health solutions. In this video, the initiative’s co-directors — Sachin Kheterpal, Gonçalo Abecasis and Eric Michielssen — discuss the goals of Precision Health, what it will do and how it promotes multidisciplinary collaboration.

October 2, 2017

Construction robots

Robots haven’t been equipped to deal with the changing elements of on-site construction work, but recently U-M researchers have developed modeling techniques that allow a robot to adjust to differences from a project’s original model and update its plan of action, all without additional programming. In this video, Vineet Kamat, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and doctoral candidate Kurt Lundeen explain the possibilities of this development.

September 29, 2017

Yoga in the Big House

Diane Barbeau, a yoga instructor for MHealthy, leads some of the more than 1,200 people who attended Yoga in the Big House at Michigan Stadium on Friday. The event, sponsored by MHealthy, Rec Sports, and University Health Service/Wolverine Wellness, is part of U-M’s yearlong bicentennial celebration and showcased the university’s ongoing commitment to personal well-being among faculty, staff and students. (Photo by Roger Hart, Michigan Photography.)

September 28, 2017

Flexible classrooms

The advantage to a flexible classroom is the ability to allow the classroom to disappear, everyone is in the front of the room no matter where they are. Utilizing the mobility of the furniture, professors can arrange their classes in a way that strengthens learning. In this video, Cindy Finelli, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and of education, postdoctoral researcher Aaron Johnson, and Steve Yalisove, professor of materials science and engineering, explain the benefits of this approach.

September 27, 2017

Defining Excellence

In support of U-M’s diversity, equity and inclusion strategic plan, units representing a cross-section of the university have highlighted their progress in the video series, “Defining Excellence: Michigan’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion,” which includes this introduction from Vice Provost for Equity & Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, Robert Sellers. View the full series.