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February 22, 2017

Global Graffiti & Mural Project

During 2016-17, international artists were brought to Ann Arbor to paint public murals and to engage with the campus and larger community, offering a global perspective on public art. In this video, Amanda Krugliak, assistant director of arts programming at the Institute for the Humanities, and Artemis Leontis, professor of modern Greek, discuss the work of artists Cacao Rocks and Olga Alexopoulou. A second video, explores the work of Iranian artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo.

February 21, 2017

Revolutionary surgical tool

U-M startup FlexDex Surgical’s first product — a simple, ergonomic and intuitive “needle driver” for stitching inside the body — has been used for the first time in a series of operations. In this video, FlexDex co-founders Shorya Awtar, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and James Geiger, professor of surgery, describe the mechanical platform that mounts to a surgeon’s arm. It enables the tip of the instrument to mimic the direction of movement of the surgeon’s hand.

February 19, 2017

Michigan Medicine Magnet

Members of the Michigan Medicine community celebrate Friday’s phone call informing them of the academic medical center’s Magnet recognition, the highest honor in nursing. In the video, Juanita Parry, director of nurse and physician assistant recruitment, and retention and Magnet program director, explains what it means for U-M to have received the designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

February 16, 2017

Aurum at the Smithsonian

U-M’s award-winning solar car, Aurum, was highlighted this week at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., as part of the world premiere of a film focusing on human ingenuity and engineering marvels. Aurum, the current American Solar Challenge title holder and fourth-place finisher in the 2015 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, was among the competitors featured in the IMAX movie “Dream Big: Engineering Our World.” Displaying the car at the National Air and Space Museum are (from left) U-M engineering students Jonathan Cha, Ian Larson and Pavan Naik. (Photo by Aaron Frantz)

February 15, 2017

Bicentennial colloquium

On Jan. 30, U.S. Justice Sonia Sotomayor and German Justice Susanne Baer were the featured guests of U-M’s first President’s Bicentennial Colloquium, titled “The Future University Community,” and at a separate discussion at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. This video recaps highlights from that day.

February 13, 2017

‘Mass Observation’

The School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s Chamber Choir will perform the world premiere of “Mass Observation,” a new work for choir and percussion that composer Tarik O’Regan describes as “a meditation on the histories of our varied ambivalent relationships with surveillance in its myriad guises.” In this video, O’Regan joins Jerry Blackstone, professor of music (conducting), and Jonathan Ovalle, assistant professor of music, to discuss the work, which will be performed at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Hill Auditorium. Admission is free.

February 12, 2017

U-M Grammy winners

Two School of Music, Theatre & Dance faculty members have won Grammy Awards. In this video, recorded before the awards ceremony Sunday, Michael Daugherty and Joseph Gramley talk about being nominated for the awards, and balancing performing and teaching at U-M.

February 12, 2017

Food Literacy for All

Thaddeus Barsotti, co-owner of Farm Fresh to You and Capay Organic, addresses the Food Literacy for All class about his experiences as an organic farmer. (Photo by Lon Horwedel, Michigan Photography)

February 9, 2017

Shirley Verrett Award winner

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Anita Gonzalez, professor of theatre and drama, speaks during a ceremony Wednesday in which she received the sixth annual Shirley Verrett Award, presented by the U-M Woman of Color in the Academy Project to a faculty member whose work supports the success of female students or faculty in the arts who come from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds. Gonzalez heads the Global Theatre and Ethnic Studies minor in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance and LSA. Read more about the Shirley Verrett Award and this year’s winner. (Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography)

February 8, 2017

V-BID briefing

Mark Fendrick, professor of internal medicine, and health management and policy, speaks at a congressional briefing Tuesday about the Value-Based Insurance Design concept that allows insurers to align patients’ out-of-pocket costs with the value of services, so they pay the least for tests and treatments that benefit them most. Fendrick has led the development of the V-BID concept at U-M. (Photo by Kristen Lunde)