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April 11, 2023
Expanding the arts
Read more about the Arts Initiative-SMTD collaborationVera Flaig, lecturer I in music at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, leads her guitar class in a Study Days Concert at the U-M Museum of Art during the fall 2022 final exam period. The class is part of a collaboration between SMTD and U-M’s Arts Initiative that expands opportunities for students — most of them majoring in something other than the arts — who want to learn to play the guitar. It also promotes the Arts Initiative goal of increasing arts participation by non-arts students. (Photo by Mark Clague, SMTD)
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April 6, 2023
Weaving for all
Read more about the new digital loomsLecturer Michael Andrews works with a student on one of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design’s Thread Controller 2 digital Jacquard looms. The Thread Controller 2 digital Jacquard looms recently integrated at the Stamps School combine the aspects of traditional weaving with today’s innovation. Digital Jacquard looms, now part of the Stamps Weaving Studio, are state-of-the-art, computer-assisted machines used for hand weaving. (Photo by Scott Galvin)
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April 4, 2023
Fleming dedication
Read more about the Robben and Aldyth Fleming Reception RoomFrom left, Betsy DiMaggio, Nancy Reckord and James Fleming pose next to a portrait of their father, the late U-M President Emeritus Robben W. Fleming, in the newly dedicated Robben & Aldyth Fleming Reception Room in the Alexander G. Ruthven Building. A dedication ceremony for the room, located off the Ruthven rotunda, took place April 4. Fleming, who died in 2010, served as president from 1968-79 and returned as interim president in 1988. View more images from the ceremony. (Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)
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April 4, 2023
Public engagement honorees
An April 3 ceremony honored faculty members Betsey Stevenson of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and LSA, and Lilia Cortina of LSA and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business as recipients of the 2022 presidential awards for public engagement. In this video, Stevenson and Cortina discuss their work that led to them being awarded the President’s Award for National and State Leadership and the President’s Award for Public Impact, respectively.
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March 31, 2023
Autonomous vehicle safety
Read more about this work to simulate bad drivingThe push toward truly autonomous vehicles has been hindered by the cost and time associated with safety testing, but a new system developed at U-M shows that artificial intelligence can reduce the testing miles required by 99.99%. This video shows how researchers are using artificial intelligence to train virtual vehicles to perform adversarial behaviors that can challenge autonomous vehicles.
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March 28, 2023
Gershwin times two
Read more about this new arrangement of Gerswhin’s classicLogan Skelton, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of music (piano) had long dreamed of creating a fully realized two-piano arrangement of George Gershwin’s 1928 orchestral work “An American in Paris.” Now, Skelton’s ambitious project is nearing completion, supported by the U-M Gershwin Initiative, School of Music, Theatre & Dance faculty, and two SMTD students who assisted him throughout the project. In this video, Skelton explains how this project became a reality.
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March 27, 2023
An historic undertaking
Read more about this global effort of museumsIn the first step of an ambitious effort to inventory global holdings, a group of natural history museums has mapped the total collections from 73 of the world’s largest natural history museums in 28 countries, including the collections from four U-M museums. The Herbarium, the Museum of Zoology, the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology and the Museum of Paleontology (pictured) have about 17 million specimens and artifacts combined. (Photo courtesy of U-M Museum of Paleontology)
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March 23, 2023
In honor of Hutch
Read more about Hutchins’ recognitionAthletic director Warde Manuel gives a congratulatory hug to retired softball coach Carol Hutchins after the Board of Regents voted March 23 to rename the university’s softball stadium in Hutchins’ honor. The home of U-M’s softball program will now be known as Alumni Field at Carol Hutchins Stadium. (Photo by Roger Hart, Michigan Photography)
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March 22, 2023
Women in the marching band
Read more about women in the Michigan Marching BandThe 2022-23 school year marks 50 years since the passing of Title IX, which allowed women to join the Michigan Marching Band. Today, 42% of the MMB identify as women, and the band is led by Rachel Zhang, the fourth female drum major in its 125-year history. In this video, Lynn Hansen, a graduate of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance and marching band member from 1972-75, tells her story of being in the band when Title IX was passed, prohibiting discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities.
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March 21, 2023
‘Making Art in Prison’
Read more about this year’s exhibitionThe Prison Creative Arts Project unveils its 27th annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons, which runs through April 4 at the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. An opening celebration reception begins at 6 p.m. March 21, with the ceremony starting at 6:30 p.m. In this video, Janie Paul, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emerita, professor emerita of art and professor emerita of social work, discusses her book, “Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance,” and three artists explain what the creative experience was like.
