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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.

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.