Multimedia Features
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March 16, 2015
Sharenting
Read MoreMore 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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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.
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March 12, 2015
Off-Axis Holography
Read MoreThis 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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March 11, 2015
MHealthy Rewards
Read MoreFriday 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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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.
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March 9, 2015
Best of all worlds
Read MoreMan 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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March 8, 2015
Forgotten images of China
Read MoreGraduate 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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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)
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February 25, 2015
Golden Apple Award
Read MoreStephen Strobbe, clinical associate professor of nursing, is joined by his wife, Lynn, as he accepts the 2015 Golden Apple Award, which was presented at a surprise ceremony during his Wednesday morning class. The Golden Apple is the only student-selected teaching award on campus. (Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography)
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February 24, 2015
Taste of Asia
Elizabeth Murphy and Meera Bhaskar dish out food to a fellow law student at the first-ever Taste of Asia lunch, hosted recently by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. View a gallery of images from the event. (Photo by Luna Archey)
