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October 22, 2015

Intraoperative neuromonitoring

The School of Kinesiology, in partnership with the Medical School, is one of the first programs in the U.S. to offer an undergraduate intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring curriculum that includes time in an operating room assisting surgical staff. In this video, Melissa Gross, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and associate professor of movement science, describes how students are trained to detect intraoperative injury.

October 21, 2015

Living the blues

The interdisciplinary course American Roots Music: From Sacred Harp to Contemporary Blues took U-M students to Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, where they visited homesteads, gravesites, museums, a prison, blues music venues and other historic sites. In this video, participants discuss what they learned from last spring’s tour of the American South.

October 20, 2015

Monitoring glucose with lasers

An estimated 200 million people with diabetes might one day utilize laser research going on at U-M to painlessly read their glucose levels. In this video, Mohammed Islam, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, internal medicine and biomedical engineering, describes how super continuum lasers he designed for military uses can be adapted as a non-invasive tool to measure glucose in the blood system.

October 19, 2015

Clues from mammoth tusks

Woolly mammoths disappeared from Siberia and North America about 10,000 years ago at the end of the last glacial period. In this video, Michael Cherney, a doctoral student in earth and environmental sciences, and Daniel Fisher, director of the Museum of Paleontology, explain how chemical clues about weaning age embedded in the tusks of juvenile Siberian woolly mammoths suggest hunting, rather than climate change, was the primary cause of the elephant-like animal’s extinction.

October 18, 2015

At work in Antarctica

Graduate students Carli Arendt and Sarah Aarons, and Assistant Professor Sarah Aciego hold an ice core sample the team collected on Taylor Glacier in Antarctica in 2013. Aciego and Aarons will return in November to the glacier, roughly 2,500 miles south of New Zealand, to continue collecting ice core samples from thousands of years past and comparing them to better understand climate change today. (Photo by Michael Jayred)

October 15, 2015

Nursing recognition

School of Nursing Dean Kathleen Potempa (left) talks with Michelle Aebersold, clinical associate professor of nursing, at the annual NightinGala banquet in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. The event raises funds for the National Institute of Nursing Research, part of the National Institutes of Health. Aebersold will be made a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing on Saturday in recognition of her significant contribution to nursing and health care, including her research using simulations to help train nurses. (Photo by Mike Waring, Washington Office)

October 13, 2015

M-Prize

In this video, Aaron Dworkin, dean of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, discusses the M-Prize competition that U-M announced on Wednesday. The new international chamber music competition will present an annual grand prize of $100,000.

October 12, 2015

Innovate Brew

Innovate Brew — a first of its kind program that randomly matches U-M faculty for 30-minute coffee meetings once a month — has boosted innovative thinking and cross-department collaboration on campus. This video takes a look at the program that expanded this fall from a pilot program and is now open to all university faculty.

October 11, 2015

Honoring Mary

Mary Stewart, recently retired event services coordinator at the Michigan Union, looks at a poster of images from a wall in her office depicting students she has worked with over the years. The poster was on display Friday at an event celebrating Stewart, her encouragement of black students at U-M over the years, and the presentation of the first Mary Stewart Scholarship through the Alumni Association’s LEAD Scholars Program. Looking on is U-M alumnus Glenn Eden, one of the scholarship’s organizers. (Photo by Roger Hart, Michigan Photography)

October 8, 2015

Battling obesity

As budget and time restraints have cut recess, lunch periods and physical education from U.S. middle and grade schools, children are getting less exercise. In this video, Rebecca Hasson, assistant professor of kinesiology, explains how a collaborative research project called Active Classroom seeks to engineer physical activity back into the school day.