Multimedia Features | The University Record

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.

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)

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)

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)

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.