Multimedia Features
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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.
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October 30, 2024
Fall research up north
Read more about seasonal studies at the Biological StationFrom a historic, 20-year soil harvest to the start of a tracer study targeting nitrogen uptake by trees in the winter, fall research activity at the University of Michigan Biological Station is robust. In this video, researchers discuss the studies being done at the Biological Station in the fall and the goals of the projects.
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October 29, 2024
Understanding inequality
View other installments in the video seriesU-M’s Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics is releasing a new series of videos that seek to share information about pressing issues of social inequality in an easily understandable way. In this video, Robert Manduca, assistant professor of sociology, addresses whether the “American Dream” is as obtainable today as it was in the past.
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October 25, 2024
Look to Michigan
Read more about the Look to Michigan campaignThis video outlines the Look to Michigan campaign, which will support U-M’s Vision 2034 and Campus 2050 plans to live out the university’s mission of serving the public good by making an impact in four areas where Michigan is uniquely positioned to impact global challenges. It also will help advance core commitments and key university priorities.
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October 24, 2024
Coping with election anxiety
Endless streams of political commercials. Spirited social media sparring between friends and families over candidates and issues. With the campaign in its closing weeks, many people still feel stressed. In this video, David Dunning, the Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Professor of the Study of Human Understanding and professor of psychology in LSA, discusses how people can lower their election anxiety by refocusing their attention on other aspects of their lives.
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October 23, 2024
Arts, ‘awe’ and policy
Read more about UMMA-Ford School collaborationA unique pairing between the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and U-M Museum of Art is helping students learn how to develop human-centered experiences to guide public policy. The public policy course We Should Talk: Using Art and Culture as a Tool for Repairing the Social Fabric combines Ford School and LSA faculty member Jenna Bednar’s research on human social flourishing with a new physical manifestation of that research curated by Philippa Pham Hughes, social practice artist and visiting artist for art and civic engagement at UMMA. In this photo, students visit the “Hey, We Need to Talk!” exhibit at UMMA that is part of the class. (Photo courtesy of U-M Museum of Art)
