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April 21, 2023

President Ono’s April message

In his monthly video message to the U-M community, President Santa J. Ono pays tribute to the work of U-M’s Institute for Social Research, the world’s largest academic social science survey and research organization. And in his April “Portrait of a Wolverine” segment, Ono highlights ISR researchers Vincent Hutchings, Nicholas Valentino, Joanne Hsu and Libby Hemphill.

April 20, 2023

Showcasing undergraduate research

LSA freshmen Ali Haidar (left) and Alyssa Bashir present information about their research projects during the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program’s 2023 Spring Research Symposium April 19 at the Michigan League. The annual conference celebrates the partnerships created between first- and second-year undergraduate students and their mentors — U-M faculty and graduate student researchers, and community partners and organizations. (Photo by Erin Kirkland, Michigan Photography)

Stamps Pollution Mural Project

48217 is known as Michigan’s most polluted ZIP code, due to several businesses in the community south of Detroit that emit pollutants into the air. Joe Trumpey, an associate professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, School for Environment and Sustainability, and LSA, teamed up with his students and community activist Theresa Landrum to help raise awareness of the pollution issues through a series of murals. They describe the project in this video.

Passing the torch

Mika LaVaque-Manty poses at Hill Auditorium, the site of many ceremonies where he has served as U-M’s chief marshal. LaVaque-Manty, who began volunteering as a faculty marshal in 2002 and has been U-M’s chief marshal since 2008, is preparing for his last commencement. The role has represented an evolution of sorts for LaVaque-Manty, a self-described “anti-ritual guy” who didn’t attend his own college graduation. (Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)

Read more about Mika LaVaque-Manty’s role as chief marshal

April 15, 2023

Honoring Homer Neal

LSA conducted a ceremony April 14 dedicating the Homer A. Neal Laboratory. David Gerdes (left), Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, professor of physics and of astronomy, and chair of the Department of Physics, and LSA Dean Anne Curzan unveiled a tribute to Neal, who died in 2018 after a career at U-M as a trailblazing physics professor, vice president for research and interim president. The Neal Laboratory is the first academic building on Central Campus to be named after a Black member of the U-M community. View more photos from the event. (Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography)

Read more about the legacy of Homer Neal

April 12, 2023

Truman Scholar

U-M’s 30th Truman Scholar, Yasmine Elkharssa (right), poses with Celeste Watkins-Hayes, interim dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Elkharssa, a Ford School junior, was named one of 62 Truman Scholars nationwide for 2023. Administered by The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, the award provides $30,000 for graduate study. Awardees are selected based on their academic success and leadership accomplishments, as well as their likelihood of becoming public service leaders. (Photo by Chris Myers, Ford School)

Read more about U-M’s latest Truman Scholar

April 11, 2023

Expanding the arts

Vera Flaig, lecturer I in music at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, leads her guitar class in a Study Days Concert at the U-M Museum of Art during the fall 2022 final exam period. The class is part of a collaboration between SMTD and U-M’s Arts Initiative that expands opportunities for students — most of them majoring in something other than the arts — who want to learn to play the guitar. It also promotes the Arts Initiative goal of increasing arts participation by non-arts students. (Photo by Mark Clague, SMTD)

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April 6, 2023

Weaving for all

Lecturer Michael Andrews works with a student on one of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design’s Thread Controller 2 digital Jacquard looms. The Thread Controller 2 digital Jacquard looms recently integrated at the Stamps School combine the aspects of traditional weaving with today’s innovation. Digital Jacquard looms, now part of the Stamps Weaving Studio, are state-of-the-art, computer-assisted machines used for hand weaving. (Photo by Scott Galvin)

Fleming dedication

From left, Betsy DiMaggio, Nancy Reckord and James Fleming pose next to a portrait of their father, the late U-M President Emeritus Robben W. Fleming, in the newly dedicated Robben & Aldyth Fleming Reception Room in the Alexander G. Ruthven Building. A dedication ceremony for the room, located off the Ruthven rotunda, took place April 4. Fleming, who died in 2010, served as president from 1968-79 and returned as interim president in 1988. View more images from the ceremony. (Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)

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April 4, 2023

Public engagement honorees

An April 3 ceremony honored faculty members Betsey Stevenson of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and LSA, and Lilia Cortina of LSA and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business as recipients of the 2022 presidential awards for public engagement. In this video, Stevenson and Cortina discuss their work that led to them being awarded the President’s Award for National and State Leadership and the President’s Award for Public Impact, respectively.