Multimedia Features

  1. June 23, 2023

    Electric buses join the fleet

    : A 40-foot electric bus and a 60-foot articulated electric bus are shown outside the new Dean Road Transportation Center located on North Campus.

    A 40-foot, electric bus and a 60-foot articulated electric bus are shown outside the new Dean Road Transportation Center on North Campus. They are among four new battery-powered electric buses that have arrived on the Ann Arbor campus as a step in a broader effort to decarbonize U-M’s vehicle fleet. The new buses will be put into regular service this fall. (Photo courtesy of Logistics, Transportation & Parking)

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  2. June 20, 2023

    A focus on research

    President Santa J. Ono focuses on the variety and impact of U-M’s research enterprise in his June video message. Highlighted efforts include a recently announced Quantum Research Institute, the Semiconductor Talent Action Team and a new Electric Vehicle Center. Ono also profiled Innovation Partnerships, U-M’s office that helps to commercialize university inventions and technology. It is led by Kelly Sexton, associate vice president for research – innovation partnerships, this month’s Portrait of a Wolverine.

  3. June 16, 2023

    Rehab ready

    The HEART Clinic, a no-cost U-M student and faculty clinic, provides health care access to the uninsured and underinsured in Flint and Genesee County. This video highlights the work of the clinic, which has helped hundreds of people with services ranging from physical therapy, occupational therapy, nursing and rehab programs for stroke patients and those with Parkinson’s disease. It is staffed by UM-Flint graduate students in occupational therapy and physical therapy and undergraduate nursing students, all supervised by licensed clinicians.

    Read more about the HEART Clinic
  4. June 5, 2023

    Combating antibiotic resistance

    Identifying whether and how a nanoparticle and protein will bind with one another is an important step toward being able to design antibiotics and antivirals on demand, and a computer model developed at U-M can do it. This video explores how the new tool could help find ways to stop antibiotic-resistant infections and new viruses — and aid in the design of nanoparticles for different purposes.

    Read more about nanobiotics
  5. May 31, 2023

    Little trees, big impact

    The Bonsai and Penjing Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens is celebrating its 10th year in June with a month-long celebration, including workshops, demonstrations and family-friendly activities. Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum’s Bonsai collection actually began in 1977 and was formally established as the Bonsai and Penjing Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens in 2013. This video showcases how these little trees make a big impact.

    Read more about the Bonsai and Penjing Garden
  6. May 25, 2023

    New gun safety laws

    With Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s recent signing of the third piece of firearms safety legislation into law, Michigan joins Washington, D.C., and 20 other states that are turning to extreme risk protection orders to prevent violence and deaths by firearms. In this video, April Zeoli, policy core director for U-M’s Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, explains the three new gun safety laws and details the purpose and history of red flag laws.

    Read more about the new gun safety laws in Michigan
  7. May 19, 2023

    chaos

    Winning contest photo, "chaos," of a person in a cave

    This photo by Anders Lundin, a senior at the time in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and the School of Information, took first place in Arts at Michigan’s “As I See It” March photo contest. The photo, taken in St. Paul, Minnesota, is titled “chaos.” The contest’s theme was “Surreal.”

    View all the contest winners and finalists
  8. May 18, 2023

    Morning glory garden

    Pictured is a research plot where morning glory diversity is studied at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. A new morning glory garden coming to Matthaei Botanical Gardens will show off how diverse a single group of closely related plants can be while connecting the botanical gardens’ visitors to faculty research. The new morning glory garden is part of a larger “Broader Impacts Garden” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. (Photo by Grace Zhang)

    Pictured is a research plot where morning glory diversity is studied at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. A new morning glory garden coming to the gardens will show off how diverse a single group of closely related plants can be while connecting the botanical gardens’ visitors to faculty research. The new morning glory garden is part of a larger “Broader Impacts Garden” that will bring MBGNA’s faculty research from behind the scenes. (Photo by Grace Zhang)

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  9. May 17, 2023

    Onus

    Photo of the bronze sculpture Onus

    A gift of the Class of 1961, this bronze sculpture titled Onus sits on the east side of Pierpont Commons on North Campus. It was created by Jon Rush, a professor of sculpture at U-M from 1962-2006. The Record periodically highlights pieces of public art at U-M. Learn more about this piece. (Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)

    Browse an online collection of public artworks at U-M
  10. May 15, 2023

    Building curious machines

    Despite thousands of years of exploration, the vast majority of Earth’s oceans and lakes are uncharted and unknown to humans. Could artificial intelligence change that? This video explores how a team led by Katie Skinner, assistant professor of robotics and of naval architecture and marine engineering, is developing technology that uses artificial intelligence to scour sonar data and quickly identify areas that warrant a closer look.

    Read more about the effort to better map the world’s seabeds