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April 3, 2016

Dance for Mother Earth

Participants dance during the 44th Annual Dance for Mother Earth Powwow that took place over the weekend at Ann Arbor’s Skyline High School. The event, which serves to renew and strengthen Native American culture, is coordinated by U-M’s Native American Student Association, with assistance from the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, and the Native American Student Organization at Eastern Michigan University. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)

March 31, 2016

Ten years of FestiFoolishness

FestiFools, the annual spring street party and community art event, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The FestiFools parade is Sunday and the sixth annual FoolMoon illuminated extravaganza is tonight from dusk to midnight. In this video, FestiFools creator Mark Tucker, art director for the Lloyd Hall Scholars Program, talks about how the magical event comes together each year.

March 30, 2016

New pediatric psychiatric unit

Inspirational phrases adorn the walls of the dining area in the new Nyman Family Unit for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Scheduled to open Monday, it is one of only a handful of children’s psychiatric facilities in the state that can accept patients that may require management of co-occurring medical illness. View a slideshow of the new facility.

March 29, 2016

Sustainability progress

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A website for U-M’s 2015 Sustainability Progress Report features campuswide sustainability achievements in the areas of education, research and campus engagement and operations. It also reports progress toward the university’s campus sustainability goals in the areas of climate, waste prevention, healthy environments, and community awareness and engagement.

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.