Multimedia Features

  1. February 23, 2023

    ‘Notorious RBG’

    Drawing of Ruth Bader Ginsberg

    This drawing of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, by LSA junior Anusha Tekumulla, is the first-place winner in Arts at Michigan’s February drawing competition. Arts at Michigan invites the U-M community to participate in various competitions throughout the year, using different themes and mediums. Submissions are narrowed down by staff, and then the finalists are voted on by the public.

    View other finalists in the drawing competition
  2. February 22, 2023

    The Drum Major

    Today is the “birthday” of the Michigan Marching Band, which gave its first public performance Feb. 22, 1897, at an annual observance of Washington’s Birthday, sponsored by the Law School. Since then, U-M students from all across campus have been part of this iconic organization. In this video, Rachel Zhang, a biomedical engineering student and the band’s 57th drum major, talks about how the engineering skills she learns in class apply to marching band.

    Read an MMB history from its 125th anniversary last fall
  3. February 20, 2023

    Protecting pollinators

    From left, students Zoe Bliss and Savanna Delise, members of the 2020-21 SEAS Bees master’s degree project team, install a pollinator-friendly native plant garden next to the Museum of Natural History. The Ann Arbor campus is now certified as a Bee Campus, reflecting its commitment to pollinator conservation. Bee Campus USA is an initiative that encourages academic institutions across the United States to engage in pollinator conservation. (Photo courtesy of SEAS Bees)

    Read more about U-M becoming a Bee Campus
  4. February 17, 2023

    New campus housing

    An image of a drawing of the proposed Central Campus housing building.

    This artist’s rendering shows the proposed new Central Campus housing project, looking west from Hill Street. The Board of Regents on Feb. 16 unanimously approved a facility plan that incorporates classic architecture and sustainability features in the 2,300-bed residence hall and 900-seat dining facility that is estimated to cost between $490 million and $540 million. (Courtesy of Robert A.M. Stern Architects)

    Read more about the new housing project
  5. February 15, 2023

    Supporting the Spartans

    Members of the U-M community sign a banner that will be sent to Michigan State University.

    Members of the University of Michigan community sign a banner that will be given to Michigan State University as hundreds gathered at the Diag Feb. 15 for a vigil to mourn the MSU students who were killed and injured during a mass shooting Feb. 13. (Photo by Erin Kirkland, Michigan Photography)

    View more photos from the vigil
  6. February 15, 2023

    Tracking plastics from space

    Microplastic pollution can be spotted from space because its traveling companion alters the roughness of the ocean’s surface. In this video, U-M researchers talk about how a satellite system that was designed to track hurricanes can help track tiny flecks of plastic that can ride ocean currents for hundreds or thousands of miles and harm sea life and marine ecosystems.

    Read more about using CYGNSS to track plastic pollutants
  7. February 14, 2023

    Looking back at FUN

    The FUN exhibit at the U-M Museum of Art, which ran from May-September 2022, provided a way for people to connect and find joy in the creative process together. This video reflects back on the in-person exhibit, created by non-art majors in LSA who worked with museum visitors to create giant papier maché sculptures.

  8. February 10, 2023

    ‘Peep’

    A photo of a yellow prothonotary warbler standing on a log

    This photo of a prothonotary warbler, titled “Peep,” took first place in this year’s Photographer-at-Large contest hosted by LSA’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Photographed by Ph.D. student Teresa Pegan, this brightly colored bird was spotted in Magee Marsh in northwestern Ohio. “When I took the picture, this warbler was looking for food in a dead tree right in front of me,” she said.

    Read more and view other contest entries
  9. February 9, 2023

    Tigers and traffic

    This GPS-collared male tiger in Nepal's Parsa National Park is shown in 2021. A study led by Neil Carter, a conservation ecologist at the School for Environment and Sustainability, showed that during a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, the male tiger more than tripled the size of its home range and crossed the nearby East-West Highway more frequently than in the pre-lockdown period. Researchers hope officials take into consideration the impacts of a widening project of the highway on Nepal's roughly 250 tigers. (Photo by Neil Carter, School for Environment and Sustainability)

    A GPS-collared male tiger in Nepal’s Parsa National Park is shown in 2021. A study led by Neil Carter, a conservation ecologist at the School for Environment and Sustainability, showed that during a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, this male tiger more than tripled the size of its home range and crossed the nearby East-West Highway more frequently than in the pre-lockdown period. Researchers hope officials take into consideration the impacts of a widening project of the highway on Nepal’s roughly 250 tigers. (Photo by Neil Carter, School for Environment and Sustainability)

    Read more about this research on Nepalese tigers
  10. February 7, 2023

    Academic freedom lecture

    Photo of Jamelle Bouie shaking hands with Provost Laurie McCAuley as Allen Liu looks on

    New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie (left) shakes hands with Provost Laurie K. McCauley prior to delivering the 32nd annual Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom, as Faculty Senate Chair Allen Liu looks on. Bouie’s Feb. 6 talk, titled “Revisiting Du Bois and ‘The Propaganda of History,’” reflected on how the African American intellectual W.E.B Du Bois’ writings from the early 20th century resonate today. (Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography)

    Read more about Jamelle Bouie’s lecture