Multimedia Features

  1. December 9, 2013

    Join the movement

    Registration starts today for MHealthy’s Rewards and Active U programs. This video encourages the campus community to join the movement for better health.

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  2. December 8, 2013

    Noel Night

    A string quartet from the School of Music, Theatre & Dance performs during the 41st Annual Noel Night, which took place Saturday at U-M’s Detroit Center and other locations around Midtown Detroit. (Photo by Mike Morland, U-M Detroit Center)

  3. December 5, 2013

    Drone deliveries

    Amazon.com’s recent announcement that it hopes to use drone-like “octocopters” to quickly deliver packages raises a variety of questions about the feasibility of such a project. In this video, Ella Atkins, an associate professor of aerospace engineering who specializes in autonomous systems, explores the potential and possible pitfalls of drone delivery.

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  4. December 3, 2013

    Meet MARLO

    U-M’s newest two-legged robot has taken its first steps outside. The machine, named MARLO, is the third-generation bipedal robot for Jessy Grizzle, professor of electrical engineering and computer science. While MARLO’s predecessors were connected to lateral support booms and confined to the lab, this video illustrates how the current robot can venture out into the sunlight.

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  5. December 3, 2013

    Distinguished Diversity Leadership Awards

    These U-M staff members were honored Tuesday as individual recipients of the 2013 Distinguished Diversity Leadership Awards, which recognize the role of staff in furthering diversity at the university. Five staff teams also were honored. From left are Gerald Hoff, Leon Howard, Sharon Lobdell, Elizabeth Studley, Armando Matiz Reyes, Tom Sullivan, Cora Edwards, Jason Davis, Chanel DeGuzman and Lynette Wright. Recipient Henry Meares is not pictured. (Photo by Scott Soderberg, Michigan Photography)

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  6. December 2, 2013

    Life at Michigan

    Spinning The Cube never gets old, as Garrett Potter and Emily Adama illustrate in this photo that is part of a slideshow in the current issue of Michigan Today. (Photo by Martin Vloet, Michigan Photography)

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  7. 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)

  8. 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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  9. 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)

  10. 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.