Multimedia Features
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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.
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May 19, 2015
Exposing nature’s beauty
Read MoreEvery 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.
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May 18, 2015
ORCID at U-M
Read MoreIn 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.
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May 17, 2015
Walking the Line of Blackness
Read MoreSixteen black students from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy share their thoughts, experiences, and struggles of being black in America.
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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.
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May 13, 2015
In plain sight
Read MoreThink you know where this is? Sometimes we don’t notice something because it’s too big, too small or too hard to find. The spring issue of LSA Magazine offers eight photos of often-overlooked objects from around U-M, and a chance to test your powers of recognition.
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May 12, 2015
Patients and family
Read MoreIn the patient- and family-centered model of health care, patients and their families are members of their care teams, not just bystanders. In this video, U-M Health System staff and patients talk about what this model of care means to them. Read more about the new generation of patient- and family-centered care.
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May 11, 2015
Road Scholars
Members of 2015 Michigan Road Scholars Tour study a traditional long house located at the Museum of Ojibwa Culture in St. Ignace. The stop was part of an annual five-day tour of Michigan to familiarize members of U-M’s faculty and staff with places the majority of our students call home, encourage university service to the public, and suggest ways faculty can help address state and local issues. (Photo by Becky Mueller)
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May 10, 2015
Community impact
Read MoreThe university’s new Community Relations website provides facts and figures, local partnerships and news, as well as a list of museums, lectures, community health programs, and business, career and workplace assistance.
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May 7, 2015
April flowers, May showers?
Read MoreThe main job of pollen is to help seed the next generation of trees and plants, but a new study from U-M and Texas A&M shows the grains might also seed clouds. In this video, Allison Steiner, associate professor of atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences, discusses how these wind-carried capsules of genetic material might affect the planet’s climate.
