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May 28, 2015

Leah’s legacy

Livonia preschooler Leah James’ brave battle with an inoperable brain tumor has inspired “Wings of Courage,” a children’s book produced by the Department of Neurosurgery that will be given to all pediatric cancer patients at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. In this video, some of those involved in creating the book discuss the story and its inspirational message.

May 27, 2015

When tech isn’t the answer

While working with schoolchildren in India and studying how to make computers work better in the classroom, Kentaro Toyama, W.K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information, determined technology alone can’t solve problems — it’s most effective when it’s paired with capable underlying human forces. In this video, he discusses why technology is not always the answer for better learning.

May 26, 2015

Partnership expands

Alison Davis-Blake, dean of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, is interviewed by Chinese media about an expanded partnership among U-M, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the UM-SJTU Joint Institute. (Photo courtesy of the Ross School)

May 25, 2015

Behavior and health

The latest C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health finds that many parents wouldn’t discuss with doctors the behavioral or emotional issues that could be signs of potential health problems in their children. In this video, Sarah J. Clark, associate director of the poll and associate research scientist in the Department of Pediatrics, discusses how behavioral and emotional health are tied to a child’s physical health.

May 21, 2015

Insight into a legend

Sifting through eight boxes of recently received material on Orson Welles, archivists at the U-M Special Collections Library made a stunning discovery: a raw draft of the legendary filmmaker’s incomplete, unpublished personal memoir, tentatively titled “Confessions of a One-Man Band.” In this video, Philip Hallman, curator of the Screen Arts Mavericks and Makers collection, discusses the material, the memoir and their significance.

May 20, 2015

Pile driver sensors

Pile driving produces thousands of impacts every day and the resulting vibrations create cracks in deep foundations for nearby structures like bridges. A U-M team hopes a new sensor can predict soil settlement before an accident occurs. In this video, Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, discusses the team’s work.

May 19, 2015

Exposing nature’s beauty

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Every year, the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology invites its students, faculty and staff to share photos they took in the past year while working in the field, walking through the forest, or generally enjoying the natural world. Nearly 50 photos submitted for this year’s contest, with first place going to this photo of a desert banded gecko that approached doctoral student Pascal Title while he hiked through California’s Anza-Borrego Desert.

May 18, 2015

ORCID at U-M

In this video, U-M researchers discuss the benefits of ORCID, a new system to more reliably identify and link them with their work online. Thanks to a U-M Library initiative, soon all of the university’s researchers will have a unique identifier through ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), an open, non-profit initiative to resolve authorship confusion in scholarly work, and to advance collaboration.

May 17, 2015

Walking the Line of Blackness

Sixteen black students from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy share their thoughts, experiences, and struggles of being black in America.

May 14, 2015

Mercury in the air

Engineers at U-M have developed a method to reduce the amount of mercury emitted into the air from coal-fired power plants, while at the same time not adding a separate process to an already complex system. In this video, Herek Clack a research associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, discusses the technology to help keep harmful mercury from being released.