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October 7, 2015

Helping America compete

U-M professors Alan Taub (left) and Stephen Forrest (right) talk with U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Michigan, during a visit Tuesday to Washington, D.C., where they participated in a U.S. Senate roundtable discussion Tuesday on reauthorizing the America COMPETES Act. The roundtable focused on innovation, commercialization, and technology transfer. (Photo by Mike Waring, Washington Office)

October 6, 2015

Faculty awards

President Mark Schlissel congratulates Tiya Miles, professor of Afroamerican and African studies, American culture, history and women’s studies, on being named the Mary Henrietta Graham Distinguished University Professor of African American Women’s History during Monday’s faculty awards ceremony. Miles was among 30 faculty members honored for their teaching, scholarship, service and creative activities. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)

October 5, 2015

Identifying nature

Brian Cressman, a volunteer at the Museum of Natural History, shares information about a Mexican milk snake with a young visitor to the museum’s annual ID Day on Sunday. The snake was among the collections on display for the event, to which visitors also brought their own natural objects to be reviewed and identified by U-M faculty, students and other experts. (Photo by Dale Austin)

October 4, 2015

Mammoth excavation

An ancient mammoth unearthed in a farmer’s field southwest of Ann Arbor last week may provide clues about the lives of early humans in the region. In this video, Daniel Fisher, Claude W. Hibbard Collegiate Professor of Paleontology and the dig’s leader, explains how the site holds “excellent evidence of human activity” associated with the mammoth remains.

October 1, 2015

Fall fun

School of Public Health staff members Megan Turf, an application programmer and analyst senior, and Dina Kurz, a program manager, try their hand at archery during the SPH Fall Fest on Thursday. The event was a chance for SPH students, faculty and staff to get to know each other and share a variety of fun activities. (Photo by Peter Smith Photography)

October 1, 2015

The science of ‘The Martian’

“The Martian,” a film adaptation of Andy Weir’s bestseller about an astronaut left behind on Mars, opens today. In this video, College of Engineering researchers Nilton Renno, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, and Ryan Miller and Jon Van Noord, lead engineers in research at the Space Physics Research Lab, explore some of the science portrayed in the story.

September 30, 2015

Munger dedication

The university Wednesday marked the dedication of the new Munger Graduate Residences with a ceremony that included the unveiling of a special MCard for U-M alumnus Charles T. Munger, whose $110 million gift funded the residence hall construction and fellowships for graduate students. Posing with the card, from left, are President Mark Schlissel, Senior Munger Fellow Marco Hidalgo, Vice President for Student Life E. Royster Harper, Senior Munger Fellow Catherine Cheung, and Senior Munger Fellow Jeff Choi. (Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)

September 29, 2015

Cattail harvest

A team of researchers based at the U-M Biological Station is using a $500,000 federal grant to test a novel approach for restoring the biological diversity of Great Lakes coastal wetlands. In this video, researchers explain their work to remove 10-15 tons of cattails from Cheboygan Marsh, at the northernmost tip of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. Removing the cattails stimulates the growth of native plants whose seeds have been dormant for 50 years or more.

September 28, 2015

A different health insurance model

Value-Based Insurance Design, a health insurance model designed to improve care and cut costs that grew out of work at U-M, will be tested in seven states through the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In this video, Dr. Mark Fendrick, director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, based in the School of Public Health and the Medical School, discusses how the model came about.

September 27, 2015

Dead zone boat

Researchers at U-M are developing an autonomous unmanned vehicle that has temperature sensors to define hypoxic or dissolved oxygen areas in Michigan’s smaller lakes. In this video, Branko Kerkez, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Brandon Wong, a graduate student research assistant, discuss how the vessel works and how eventually it could be scaled up to take readings inside Lake Erie, an area with a history of hypoxic problems.