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October 28, 2015

Whalen memorial bench

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This stainless steel bench on the north side of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business was created by Peter Osler as a memorial to Meredith Whalen, a 2000 graduate who died in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. The Record periodically highlights pieces of public art at U-M.

October 27, 2015

Jack-o’-science

More than 20 students took up the challenge of creating science-themed jack-o’-lanterns to put a scientific spin on the traditional Halloween decoration. The results are on display at the Science Learning Center, Room 1720 of the Chemistry Building. (Photos by Suzanne Tainter)

October 26, 2015

Monarchs, milkweed and medicines

Researchers at the U-M Biological Station are working to determine how monarch butterflies’ ability to self-medicate may be affected by increasing greenhouse gas levels. In this video, Leslie Decker, a doctoral student in ecology and evolutionary biology, and Mark Hunter, Henry A. Gleason Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, discuss their ongoing study and its implications for other plant-based medicines that may be affected by higher carbon dioxide levels.

October 24, 2015

Leadership Breakfast

In his Leadership Breakfast remarks Friday, President Mark Schlissel covered matters related to academic excellence, diversity, sustainability and partnerships throughout the university community and beyond. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)

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)