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April 25, 2016

Life Sciences Institute

The Life Sciences Institute is a hub for collaborative biomedical discovery at U-M. This video offers an overview of how LSI enables faculty to advance knowledge in critical areas of human health — including cancer, metabolic disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, and bacterial and viral infections.

April 24, 2016

Diversity planning

Amy Ku’uleialoha Stillman (left), director of the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, and Kim Bobby, director of the Inclusive Excellence Initiative at the American Council on Education, talk during “Asian and Asian American Faculty in LSA: A Glass Ceiling?” It was one of the many community engagement activities that have taken place as part of the Ann Arbor campus’ diversity, equity and inclusion strategic planning initiative.

April 21, 2016

Hands-only CPR

The Department of Emergency Medicine joined U-M Club Sports Teams recently to help train more than 350 students in hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Team members set up a training station in the heart of campus to teach students the lifesaving technique as they walked to class. In this video, faculty members explain the benefits of the hands-only technique, which is conducted without any mouth-to-mouth contact.

April 20, 2016

Leadership Crisis Challenge

Each year, hundreds of students at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business participate in the Leadership Crisis Challenge and experience firsthand what it’s like to take the helm of a company quickly spiraling out of control. This video follows first-year students Courtney Abram, Christopher Selle, and Courtney Black through a simulation in which a hospitality cruise ship business is being blamed for severe environmental contamination.

April 19, 2016

Social justice + music

“Seven Last Words of the Unarmed,” a multi-movement work by Atlanta-based composer Joel Thompson that is inspired by the dying words of seven unarmed black men, was premiered recently by the Men’s Glee Club under the direction of Eugene Rogers, associate director of choirs and professor of conducting. In this video, Rogers, Thompson and others share their thoughts about the piece that seeks to engage audiences in thinking deeper about race and violence.

April 18, 2016

Ship sensor

A ship in a storm is a lot like a paperclip that’s been bent back and forth too many times: repeated strain can cause catastrophic failure, So U-M researchers have designed a simple mechanical sensor that can precisely measure that strain and predict structural failures before they occur. In this video, Mark Groden, a graduate student research assistant in naval architecture and marine engineering, discusses the process.

April 17, 2016

Revisiting radio’s Golden Age

Students in a course on the Golden Age of Radio will perform three 15-minute dramas at 7 p.m. today in a free event at the U-M Museum of Art. In this video, Michael Byers, associate professor of English, and students discuss the process of putting together radio productions similar to the dramas and comedies that America grew up on from 1930-62.

April 14, 2016

Golden Apple lecture

Ryan Ball, assistant professor of accounting, delivers his “last lecture” Wednesday evening as the 2016 Golden Apple Award recipient. Ball, the first Golden Apple recipient from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, spoke on the topic “Accounting for Ambiguity: Lessons from Denmark, MMA, and Improv.” Recipients of the Golden Apple, the only student-selected teaching award on campus, are asked to deliver the lecture they would give as if it were to be the last of their careers. (Photo by Lon Horwedal, Michigan Photography)

April 13, 2016

Tech transfer

U-M Venture Center Director Jack Miner (left) visits with Sujai Shivakumar of the National Academies of Science at a Washington forum Tuesday. The conference focused on two federal funding programs — the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs — that assist researchers in developing new discoveries and moving them to the commercial marketplace. Congress is currently considering legislation that would re-authorize the programs. (Photo by Mike Waring, Washington Office)

April 11, 2016

UM-SJTU Joint Institute

James Holloway (left), vice provost for global and engaged education at U-M, accepts the JI Founding Meritorious Award on behalf of President Emerita Mary Sue Coleman from Jie Zhang, president of Shanghai Jiaotong University. The presentation came during a recent celebration marking the 10th anniversary of the UM-SJTU Joint Institute. (Photo courtesy of UM-SJTU Joint Institute)