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March 28, 2016

UM-Dearborn Family Day

Dexter Overall, coordinator for diversity programs at UM-Dearborn, demonstrates a game of “Shockwave” for Phillip Nguyen, son of UM-Dearborn accountant Chau Nguyen, during the university’s inaugural Family Day recently. The free event was organized by the Office for Student Engagement to give the Dearborn campus community an opportunity to share campus with their families. (Photo by Sarah Tuxbury)

March 27, 2016

Drones and natural disasters

Typically surveying natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, and landslides involves the time-consuming and potentially dangerous process putting boots on the ground and using tools like measuring tape or GPS to take stock of how the area has been affected. In this video, Dimitrios Zekkos, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, explains how it may be possible to measure disasters using images captured by drone technology.

March 24, 2016

Stunning science

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LSA senior Lawrence Chen won the grand prize and the people’s choice award in the third annual Science as Art contest with his large-scale floor sculpture “Paper Crystallography.” The contest is jointly sponsored by the Science Learning Center, Arts at Michigan and Arts Engine. View a slideshow of the winners and other favorites.

March 23, 2016

Reducing Lake Erie phosphorus

Large-scale changes to agricultural practices will be required to meet the goal of reducing levels of algae-promoting phosphorus in Lake Erie by 40 percent, a new University of Michigan-led, multi-institution computer modeling study concludes. In this video, Don Scavia, lead author of the new study and director of the Graham Sustainability Institute, and Rebecca Logsdon Muenich, a research fellow at the Graham Institute, discuss the study.

March 22, 2016

Plastic patients

Life-like mannequins are used to teach students how to respond to real-life medical situations at the School of Nursing’s Clinical Learning Center Simulation Lab. This video offers a glimpse into the lab’s simulation rooms that re-create real-life situations — particularly trauma — that most nursing students won’t see during clinical rotations.

March 21, 2016

Doctor destiny

The annual national ritual of Match Day, when future doctors find out where they will continue their training after graduation, took place Friday as 161 U-M medical students learned their destinies. This video shows the excitement as students opened the envelopes that held their futures.

March 20, 2016

First-gen trailblazers

On the Ann Arbor campus, there are an estimated 6,500 students who are among the first generation in their families to attend college. In this video, first-gen U-M faculty, students and staff share their stories.

March 17, 2016

The Living Lab

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Merranda McLaughlin, lab manager of The Living Lab, quizzes Dallin Loosli about the Lego structure he’s built as part of a study at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum. The Living Lab is a program in which U-M faculty bring research projects to public spaces so parents and children can partake in real child development experiments. View a slideshow about the project. (Photo by Austin Thomas, Michigan Photography)

March 16, 2016

Hail Yeah!

Nursing students Breanna Hinston, Jameya Crosley, Emily Roleos, Abigail LeMerise fill out thank-you cards Wednesday as part of the annual Hail Yeah! day of thanks. The event is aimed at educating students about the impact private support has on their Michigan education. Students have the opportunity to sign postcards and personalize messages of thanks to Michigan alumni who donated $50 or less to the university. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)

March 15, 2016

Icephobic coating

U-M researchers are developing a durable ice-repellent coating that could help keep everything from airplanes to ships, power lines and windshields ice-free. In this video, Anish Tuteja, associate professor of materials science and engineering, and doctoral student Kevin Golovin explain the process.