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March 24, 2015

Congressional Breakfast

President Mark Schlissel talks with Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, at the annual University of Michigan Congressional Breakfast. 300 alumni, corporate sponsors, members of Congress and others attended the annual event in Washington on Wednesday.

March 24, 2015

Teach-In + 50

U-M will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic 1965 teach-in to end the Vietnam War with a similar event this Friday and Saturday titled “End the War Against the Planet.” This video recalls that first teach-in and urges people to revive its spirit in support of the environment.

March 23, 2015

Sirius

An open-source computing system built by U-M engineering researchers accepts voice commands and is designed to spark a new generation of “intelligent personal assistants” for wearables and other devices. In this video, Jason Mars and Lingjia Tang, assistant professors of electrical engineering and computer science, describe how the free and customizable Sirius is an important platform for research into the next-generation of warehouse computing.

March 22, 2015

Match Day

More than 500 friends, family and professors joined U-M medical students in celebrating the annual Match Day ritual on Friday. This video shows some highlights from the event in which students found out where they’ll go for their next round of training, after they graduate in two months.

March 19, 2015

Coming down

A worker sprays water to control dust Thursday during the demolition of the Museums Annex, which, along with North Hall, is being torn down to make way for the new Biological Sciences Building. The new building will house the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, as well as the museums of Anthropology, Natural History, Paleontology and Zoology. (Photo by Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography)

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)

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)

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.

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.

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.