Multimedia Features

  1. December 1, 2013

    Culinary champs

    University Unions chef Aaron Bruck puts the finishing touches on a dessert that was among the U-M team’s entries in the annual Earth to Table dinner competition with chefs from Ohio State University. U-M team declared the winner of the event, which took place Nov. 16 at the Culinary Vegetable Institute in Milan, Ohio. View more photos from the dinner. (Photo by Michelle Demuth-Bibb, Chef’s Garden)

  2. November 26, 2013

    Go Green With Eloise

    LSA undergraduate Theo Schear’s depiction of a little girl sharing tips about how to “go green” won the first-place Critic’s Choice Award in the Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute’s 2013 Climate Change Communications Challenge. Eleven student teams submitted videos to help create a more positive vision of how we can address climate change. View the five winners.

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  3. November 25, 2013

    Wolverine Express

    Gerry Kreiner, an admissions representative from the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, leads a hands-on lesson in an art class at Osborn High School in Detroit. The Nov. 20 visit by more than 25 U-M faculty and staff kicked off the fourth year of the Center for Educational Outreach’s Wolverine Express, in which U-M presenters will speak at six Michigan high schools to promote academic success and college aspiration. (Photo by Cathy Jenkins Newton. Center for Educational Outreach)

  4. November 24, 2013

    Growing community

    Over the last year and a half, classes, groups and individuals have come to work and learn at the 2-acre U-M campus farm at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens.

  5. November 21, 2013

    Balloon-based disaster aid

    Disasters frequently knock out communications infrastructures, isolating desperate people from the outside world. The Internet would enable these people to contact rescuers — if an Internet-to-ground linkage could be established. In this video, a team led by Aaron Ridley, associate professor of atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences, shows how high-altitude balloons could be used to quickly carry Wi-Fi routers into positions above affected zones, creating platforms for Internet-to-ground signals.

  6. November 20, 2013

    Kick the habit

    While Thursday is the annual “Great American Smokeout,” any day can be the day to quit smoking. MHealthy has redesigned how it delivers its Tobacco Consultation Service programs to make them easier to access. This video explains what is available.

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  7. November 19, 2013

    Archiving mass atrocities

    When abusive regimes are deposed, it becomes imperative that the archives documenting their atrocities be preserved because “archival information can clearly have a powerful impact on accountability proceedings such as criminal trials and truth commissions,” John Ciorciari, assistant professor of public policy and senior legal adviser to the Documentation Center of Cambodia. In this video, Ciorciari explains the importance of making such records available.

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  8. November 18, 2013

    The state of entrepreneurship

    Despite its image as an example of Rust Belt decay, Michigan has “much more going on here entrepreneurially than the rest of the country realizes,” says David Brophy, professor of finance and director of the Center for Venture Capital & Private Equity Finance. In this video, Brophy discusses how programs at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business are helping feed Michigan’s entrepreneurial rebirth.

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  9. November 16, 2013

    Heroes at the Big House

    Red Cross nurse Catherine Ashlin tends to Clare Gargaro, a physician’s assistant at the U-M Health System, while Gargaro donates blood Sunday during the Be a Hero at the Big House donation drive at Michigan Stadium. The annual event had about 800 participants and collected 318 pints of blood. It is part of the annual fall challenges between U-M and Ohio State — the Wolverine vs. Buckeye Challenge for Life, the Blood Battle and the Marrow Match-up. (Photo by John Masson)

  10. November 14, 2013

    Mission to Mars

    NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft is scheduled to launch Monday on a 10-month journey to Mars to unravel several mysteries about the Red Planet. In this video, Stephen Bougher, the Andrew F. Nagy Collegiate Research Professor in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences and a co-investigator on the MAVEN mission, describes the workings of the spacecraft and its scientific objectives.