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April 16, 2014

Robot companions?

Will advances in artificial intelligence bring us closer to having robots in our homes? In this video, Satinder Baveja, a professor of computer science and engineering who works in artificial intelligence and machine learning, discusses the goals and outlook for research in making robots that think like humans.

April 15, 2014

Energy efficiency

Five 2013 Dow Sustainability Fellows from U-M have partnered with the City of Ann Arbor to create financial incentives for landlords and renters to increase energy efficiency. This video highlights the collaboration that is having an on-the-ground sustainability impact.

April 14, 2014

Warm-weather Wolverines

The staff that works to support the Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi project donned blue fleeces featuring the Block M this year to ward off what was a chilly winter by Texas standards. But this U-M field office is still marked by palm trees and sunshine most of the time. The BASIC researchers work with patients and hospitals to learn why Mexican Americans have a greater burden of stroke than non-Hispanic whites. (Photo by Dr. Lewis Morgenstern)

April 13, 2014

Translation for a cause

Volunteers representing 15 different languages were among 67 people who signed up for the second annual Translate-a-thon, during which 50 projects were translated for various non-profit organizations. In this video, participants and organizers discuss the benefits of the event, which ran March 28-30.

April 10, 2014

Robotics Day

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YiBin Jiang, a Medical School research technician, plays soccer with a robot during Robotics Day at the North Campus Research Complex on Thursday. The event showcased leading autonomous systems and robotics research coming out of U-M, other Michigan universities and in government and industry in the region. View more photos from Robotics Day. (Photo by Joseph Xu, College of Engineering)

April 9, 2014

Tea and sympathy

Although workers on fair-trade tea plantations in India’s Darjeeling region harvest some of the world’s most expensive tea, they do so for less than a dollar a day. In this video, Sarah Besky, assistant professor of anthropology and natural resources and environment, discusses why “fair trade and other programs that purport to provide justice to plantation workers in the age of global ‘ethical consumption’ are not having much effect in providing justice to the tea pluckers, who are mainly Indian Nepali, or Gorkha, women.”

April 8, 2014

Music and melting ice

World Without Ice was a recent multimedia experience about climate change that featured the collaborative efforts of Michael Gould, associate professor of music; Stephen Rush, professor of music, and Henry Pollack, professor emeritus of geological sciences. This video captures the sights and sounds of this unique collaboration.

April 6, 2014

Trail to the Victors

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Runners cross the finish line at Michigan Stadium during the inaugural Big House 5K: Trail to the Victors event Sunday. The run saw 4,600 people participate and the event raised more than $70,000 for local charities. Watch a video of the event and view a gallery of photos.

April 5, 2014

Zombie attack

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Students from the School of Public Health became zombies Saturday, joining staff from the Washtenaw County Public Health Department and the Michigan Public Health Training Center to test disaster preparedness. The Zombie Apocalypse Bite Back was a fun — if fictional — way to present a worst-case scenario in public health. (Photo by Marissa McClain, Michigan Photography)

April 3, 2014

Catching cancer cells

Could cancer be diagnosed with a simple blood test? A new chip can trap the one cancer cell in a billion normal cells. In this video, Sunitha Nagrath, assistant professor of chemical engineering and biomedical engineering, describes how her lab developed the chip with other members of the Translational Oncology team.