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  1. March 18, 2015

    Hail Yeah!

    Students line up on the Diag during the fourth annual Hail Yeah! Student Day of Thanks to write postcards and personal thank-you messages to U-M alumni who gave gifts of $50 or less to the university. The event Wednesday, conducted at various locations campuswide, was designed to help students understand the importance of philanthropy to their U-M experience. (Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography)

  2. March 17, 2015

    Promoting IRLEE programs

    Representatives of the Institute for Research on Labor, Employment and the Economy were in Washington, D.C., this week promoting the economic development programs they coordinate. Among those is the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms program, which U-M manages for the U.S. Department of Commerce to help trade-distressed small manufacturers in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.  Here, TAAF Center Director Scott Jacobs (left) and IRLEE Director Marian Krzyzowski (right) visit with U.S. Rep. Sander Levin, D-Royal Oak, ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee.  (Photo by Mike Waring, Washington Office)

  3. March 16, 2015

    Sharenting

    More than half of moms and one-third of dads discuss parenting on social media, according to the latest C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health. But how much is too much when it comes to creating a digital identity for children? In this video, Sarah J. Clark, associate director of the poll, discusses the concept of “sharenting” on social media.

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  4. March 15, 2015

    Engineering a perfect bracket

    The NCAA men’s basketball tournament gets underway Tuesday and fans across the country are preparing their brackets in hopes of picking the winners. With the odds of picking a perfect bracket at a trillion to one, U-M engineering professors share their techniques in this video for March Madness success.

  5. March 12, 2015

    Off-Axis Holography

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    This piece, located on North Campus between the Engineering Research and Gerstacker buildings, is intended to celebrate U-M’s achievements in holography. Created by Jens Zorn, professor emeritus of physics, the sculpture combines two arrays to generate a crossing pattern that changes depending on the position of the observer.  The Record periodically highlights pieces of public art at U-M. Learn more about this piece, or browse an online collection of public artworks.

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  6. March 11, 2015

    MHealthy Rewards

    Friday is the last day for benefits-eligible faculty and staff to complete the online health questionnaire, which includes a $50 before-tax reward as part of the MHealthy Rewards program. In this video, Richard Gonzalez, professor of psychology, statistics and marketing, shares his story about how MHealthy Rewards helped alert him to cancer.

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  7. March 10, 2015

    The holy grail of fuel

    Compression-based power is king but the ideal fuel for the future is still unknown. In this video, Margaret Wooldridge, professor of mechanical engineering and aerospace engineering, discusses how she and her colleagues are developing the tools normally used to calibrate the chemistry behind standard diesel and gasoline to better understand the molecular structure of advanced biofuels and synthetic fuels.

  8. March 9, 2015

    Best of all worlds

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    Man Kuan Lei, a 2014 International Institute Summer in South Asia Fellow, spent her summer in Dharamsala, India, and had a chance to visit the Himalayas. “At 10,000 feet, you’ll only find yourself at the foothills of these great mountains,” she says. Her photo was one of the winners in the institute’s annual photo contest. View a slideshow of the others.

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  9. March 8, 2015

    Forgotten images of China

    Graduate student Joseph Ho has collected 1,500 photographs and three hours of film shot by American missionaries in China from the 1920s to the early ’50s — one of the country’s most tumultuous periods. In this video, Ho, who is doing his doctoral dissertation on the material, discusses the historical significance of the pictures and movies.

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  10. February 26, 2015

    STEM support

    Iverson Bell (right), a dotoral student in electrical engineering, talks with Dan Jourdan, legislative director for Rep. Sander Levin, D-Royal Oak, about wire that could be used to power micro-satellite propulsion. Representatives of the Michigan Space Grant Consortium — part of a national NASA-funded program aimed at increasing the number of students pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and math — were in Washington, D.C., recently to urge support. U-M manages the Space Grant program in Michigan. (Photo by Mike Waring, Washington Office)