Multimedia Features

  1. November 10, 2014

    Comparing equipment

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    As her mother Casey Strother looks on, Lillian Strother, 2, of Southgate checks out the tires on the wheelchair of Paul Schulte, captain of the Team USA Paralympic Basketball Team. Schulte played for the Army basketball team in the Army-Navy game Sunday at Crisler Center. Navy won, 44-37. The game was part of Veterans Week 2014 as well as the university’s final “Investing in Ability” event for 2014. Watch a video about the event. (Photo by Lon Horwedel, Michigan Photography)

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  2. November 7, 2014

    Future engineers

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    Francisco Cabrera and Fabian Gutierrez build a balloon-powered jet-engine car during the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Pre-College Symposium at the Michigan League. Middle school and high school students from across the state participated in the Friday workshop designed to inspire students from Hispanic backgrounds to pursue careers in engineering. (Photo by Joseph Xu, College of Engineering)

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  3. November 5, 2014

    Birthday run

    Naval ROTC Midshipmen Andrew Downs and Lindsay Grzegorzewski finish the second of their three laps around the Diag on Thursday morning as part of the annual run that this year honors the 239th birthday of the Navy and Marine Corps. Pairs of runners took turns running three one-mile laps — for a total of 239 over three days — in the event that is part of the university’s Veterans Week celebration. (Photo by James Iseler, The University Record)

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  4. November 5, 2014

    Soil sensors

    Soil moisture information is just as important to NASA engineers as it is to local farmers. For example, this data is used to monitor climate patterns and predict landslides. In this video, Mingyan Liu, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, discusses how special sensors will help make large-scale remote soil moisture sensing more useful.

  5. November 3, 2014

    Election Day

    LSA undergraduate Geralyn Gaines receives her ballot before voting Tuesday at the Michigan Union Ballroom. Among the offices being decided in the midterm election were two seats on the Board of Regents to which Regent Kathy White and fellow Democrat Mike Behm were elected. (Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography)

  6. November 3, 2014

    Nutrition labels

    Mothers were more likely than fathers to read nutrition labels when considering food or drink purchases for their kids, according to the latest C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health. In this video, Dr. Susan Woolford, assistant professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases, discusses findings from poll that indicate even moms report they don’t use the “Nutrition Facts” labels that often.

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  7. November 2, 2014

    Vanpool milestone

    Each workday hundreds of U-M employees meet up and ride to work together, sharing a van and saving energy as part of the vanpool program through Parking & Transportation Services. The program recently hit a milestone as it reached its 100th van. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)

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  8. October 30, 2014

    M go boo

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    Corpses on campus. Coeds in costumes. The signature of an infamous alumni killer. Just in time for Halloween, Michigan Today brings the creepy, spooky, and unusual to light in a photo slideshow from the archives of the Bentley Historical Library. In this 1906 photo, students ride in a “Mysterious Ypsi” wagon as part of the County Fair Carnival parade.

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  9. October 28, 2014

    Making an Impact

    Dr. James Shayman, professor of pharmacology and internal medicine, speaks at Tuesday’s Celebrate Invention reception, where he and the late Dr. Norman Radin received the U-M Tech Transfer Impact Award for developing a treatment for Gaucher disease type 1. With Shayman are, from left, Lon Radin, son of Norman Radin; Kenneth Nisbet, associate vice president for research – technology transfer; and President Mark Schlissel. The annual Celebrate Invention event recognizes faculty and researchers involved in U-M’s technology transfer process. (Photo by Leisa Thompson)

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  10. October 28, 2014

    Campus traditions

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    In the week leading up to Homecoming, LSA Today looks at U-M campus traditions such “pushball,” a game introduced in 1908 as an alternative to some of the more dangerous expressions of rivalry between schools or classes. Take a visual tour of both old and ongoing campus traditions.

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