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April 27, 2017

NGO leadership workshop

The Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia and William Davidson Institute have partnered with the Pontis Foundation to offer a leadership workshop to leaders of non-governmental organizations in countries experiencing democratic transitions. In this video, Amy Gillett, vice president of education for the WDI, and Ronald Weiser, a U-M regent and patron of the Weiser Center, discuss the partnership’s role.

April 26, 2017

Distinguished Dissertation Awards

The 2016 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award recipients were honored Tuesday. Awardees receive a $1,000 honorarium recognizing exceptional scholarly work and completion of their doctoral degrees in 2016. The annual competition is co-sponsored by ProQuest and Rackham Graduate School. Awardees, from left, are: Emily Waples, Elizabeth Mann, Austin McCoy, Nielson Baxter, Sara Rimer, Yoonseob Kim, Naveen Narisetty and Cassie Miura. Not pictured: Azadeh Ansari, Emily Maclary. (Photo by Elizabeth Kassab)

April 25, 2017

Stand up for science

The March for Science is behind us but organizers stress that raising public awareness about the importance of science and research must continue. U-M is keeping the dialogue going by offering an online teach-out on the topic. “Stand Up for Science: Practical Approaches to Discussing Science That Matters” will be offered the weekend of May 5. In this video, Brian Zikmund-Fisher, associate professor of health behavior and health education, and Elyse Aurbach, co-founder and co-director of a science communication program called RELATE, explain the importance of science and research.

April 24, 2017

Digital Islamic studies

U-M has taken the lead in coordinating with several other universities in the Big Ten Academic Alliance to establish the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum. The initiative allows students to take courses about Islam not offered at their own institutions. In this video, Pauline Jones, director of the International Institute, elaborates on the goal of the curriculum.

April 23, 2017

Persistent Pasts

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As U-M celebrates its bicentennial year, the exhibition Persistent Pasts reflects on the university’s campus as a repository of memory. Now running at the Taubman College Gallery in the Art and Architecture Building, the exhibition asks how past traditions, tensions and technologies have left material or cultural traces on campus space today. View a photo gallery from the exhibit. (Photo by Bryan Ranallo)

April 19, 2017

Clinical Simulation Center

Michigan Medicine will more than double the size of its Clinical Simulation Center, an innovative instructional learning laboratory used to train health care professionals. This video explores the purpose of the center, which will benefit from a $4.75 million renovation of the Medical Science Building II to add a second Clinical Simulation Center location.

April 19, 2017

Cuba’s beating heart

For students of jazz percussion, Cuba is the holy grail of influence. The rhythms, instruments and techniques that began on that island nation have created some of the world’s most influential regional music. Led by Michael Gould, professor of music (jazz percussion), 12 students from the School of Music, Theatre & Dance recently had the opportunity to hear, see and perform with Cuban jazz artists in person. In this video, Gould and several of the students reflect on what they learned.

April 18, 2017

Fake news, facts, and alternative facts

The proliferation of news stories that are either downright false or, at the very least, misleading is at the heart of U-M’s second “teach-out.” Three faculty members from the Department of Communication Studies will present “Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts” to enrolled online learners beginning Friday. In this video, Brian Weeks and Josh Pasek, both assistant professors of communication studies, discuss some of the topics that will be discussed.

April 17, 2017

Suicide prevention

Counseling and Psychological Services has released videos to help faculty assist students who may be thinking of suicide. Part of the “Do something: Stop Student Suicide” initiative, this video explores how students dealing with personal concerns and in distress typically show some outward signs that they are struggling in some way. A second video looks at using the strengths of community to combat students’ feelings of being alone.

April 16, 2017

A new cube to spin

A giant Rubik’s Cube newly installed on North Campus is believed to be the world’s largest hand-solvable, stationary version of the famous puzzle. This video shows the installation of the 1,500-pound, mostly aluminum apparatus, which was unveiled last week on the second floor of the G.G. Brown Building. It was imagined, designed and built by two teams of mechanical engineering undergraduate students.