Multimedia Features
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November 18, 2024
Illustrating concussions
Read more about the mural at the Concussion CenterA section of the mural that can be seen at the U-M Concussion Center in the School of Kinesiology Building. Ypsilanti-based artist Avery Williamson, along with a team of students from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, recently completed this expansive mural at the center after interviewing patients and visualizing their road to recovery from concussion. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)
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November 14, 2024
A focus on well-being
In his November video message to the U-M community, President Santa J. Ono points to the value of taking time to pause, to reflect and to be grateful. “Studies show that gratitude is good for you — it can reduce depression and lessen anxiety, as well as relieve stress, improve sleep and even strengthen heart health,” he said. “In addition to pausing for gratitude, another fantastic way to stay healthy is to go outside.” Ono also honored U-M’s 2024 Olympians and Paralympians as this month’s Portrait of a Wolverine.
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November 12, 2024
Honoring veterans’ sacrifice
Read more about Veterans Week activities at U-MReserve Officer Training Corps students salute as the American flag is raised over the Diag during a Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 11. The annual event is part of U-M’s Veterans Week activities. (Photo by Jaime Crawford, for Michigan Photography)
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November 11, 2024
Winter Commencement honorees
Read more about the Winter Commencement honorary degreesFour people representing achievements in a broad range of fields including journalism, historical and literary scholarship, computer science, and philanthropy and communications have been recommended for honorary degrees at the 2024 Winter Commencement. They are, clockwise from upper left: Rebecca Blumenstein, President of Editorial at NBC News; John D. Evans, philanthropist and co-founder of C-SPAN; Margaret H. Hamilton, pioneering systems and software engineer and computer scientist; and Henry Louis Gates Jr., literary scholar, educator, historian and TV host.
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November 8, 2024
Lifting legal burdens for vets
Read more about the Veterans Legal ClinicSince opening in 2015, the Law School’s Veterans Legal Clinic has provided free services to veterans in a wide variety of civil matters such as divorce, custody, support and visitation, eviction, consumer problems, foreclosure and employment cases. In this video, clinic director Matthew Andres discusses how the clinic works and who it serves.
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November 7, 2024
Wildlife interactions
Read more about dealing with campus wildlifeThese turkeys, spotted on North Campus next to the Cooley Lab, are examples of the various wildlife people may encounter on campus. U-M is encouraging all members of the campus community to take an active role in fostering an environment where humans and the campus’ diverse range of wildlife can live together peacefully. (Photo by Robert Coelius, College of Engineering)
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November 6, 2024
Participating in democracy
View more photos from campus voting sitesYael Atzmon (right), a senior in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, shows a sample ballot to Zack Chalogianis, a senior in the School of Kinesiology, before Chalogianis voted at the U-M Museum of Art’s voting hub on Tuesday. Members of the campus community and others voted at various locations across the U-M campus as part of the 2024 general election. Precincts were open at the Michigan Union and Michigan League for registered voters, and hubs at UMMA and the Duderstadt Center allowed people to register, get voter information and cast their ballots. View more photos from campus voting sites. (Photo by Erin Kirkland, Michigan Photography)
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November 5, 2024
Powered by science, warmed by love
Read more about this life-saving technologyBorn a premature baby, Grace Hsia Haberl dedicated her College of Engineering undergraduate studies to finding a solution to protecting premature infants from hypothermia. Along with fellow classmates, she developed a non-electric warming blanket, IncuBlanket, under the startup Warmilu. Warmilu’s mission is to prevent infant deaths from hypothermia across the globe, particularly in countries like Kenya with limited resources. In this video, Hsia Haberl, lecturer II in the Center for Entrepreneurship, and others share how IncuBlanket is saving lives.
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November 4, 2024
Piecing together the past one fragment at a time
Read more about the efforts of the archaeology classUM-Dearborn associate professor John Chenoweth, second from right, talks while at the site of the Battle of the River Raisin that took place during the War of 1812. An archaeology class taught by Chenoweth has focused on the site of the largest battle fought on Michigan soil for five years. The class has found found musket balls, buckshot, gun flints, chert arrowheads, broken glass panes from the 18th century and more in an area largely thought to be covered with fill where nothing is salvageable. (Annie Barker, UM-Dearborn)
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October 31, 2024
Figures of “Character” and “Friendship”
Browse an online collection of public artworksThese limestone features on the west facade of the Michigan League, atop its center pavilion, were designed by the League’s architect, Irving Pond, and executed in 1928 by Nellie Verne Walker, a well-known Chicago sculptor and friend of Pond. The Record periodically highlights pieces of public art at U-M.
