Multimedia Features

  1. July 5, 2023

    A business plan to expand local health care

    The William Davidson Institute is helping improve access to health care in the agriculturally driven border community of San Luis Río Colorado in Sonora, Mexico, and elsewhere. Earlier this year, WDI conducted due diligence on expansion and business plans of Grupo OSME, a privately run medical clinic business to finance construction of a medical complex. In addition, as this video explains, at the time of this project, WDI also was developing a Healthcare Delivery Management Training program, and OSME requested training for its management team from WDI. As a result, OSME and a Ghanaian hospital were the first to participate in the course.

    Read more about this effort to expand health-care access
  2. June 27, 2023

    Bassoons in the forest

    Participants of the New Bassoon Institute performed composer and bassoonist Brad Balliett’s “Arboretum,” a collection of 13 bassoon solos and duets, each representing a different tree, in the Heathdale section of the Nichols Arboretum on June 15. This video explores how the performances were synchronized by each soloist or duet at various locations in the Arb.

  3. June 23, 2023

    Electric buses join the fleet

    : A 40-foot electric bus and a 60-foot articulated electric bus are shown outside the new Dean Road Transportation Center located on North Campus.

    A 40-foot, electric bus and a 60-foot articulated electric bus are shown outside the new Dean Road Transportation Center on North Campus. They are among four new battery-powered electric buses that have arrived on the Ann Arbor campus as a step in a broader effort to decarbonize U-M’s vehicle fleet. The new buses will be put into regular service this fall. (Photo courtesy of Logistics, Transportation & Parking)

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  4. June 20, 2023

    A focus on research

    President Santa J. Ono focuses on the variety and impact of U-M’s research enterprise in his June video message. Highlighted efforts include a recently announced Quantum Research Institute, the Semiconductor Talent Action Team and a new Electric Vehicle Center. Ono also profiled Innovation Partnerships, U-M’s office that helps to commercialize university inventions and technology. It is led by Kelly Sexton, associate vice president for research – innovation partnerships, this month’s Portrait of a Wolverine.

  5. June 16, 2023

    Rehab ready

    The HEART Clinic, a no-cost U-M student and faculty clinic, provides health care access to the uninsured and underinsured in Flint and Genesee County. This video highlights the work of the clinic, which has helped hundreds of people with services ranging from physical therapy, occupational therapy, nursing and rehab programs for stroke patients and those with Parkinson’s disease. It is staffed by UM-Flint graduate students in occupational therapy and physical therapy and undergraduate nursing students, all supervised by licensed clinicians.

    Read more about the HEART Clinic
  6. June 5, 2023

    Combating antibiotic resistance

    Identifying whether and how a nanoparticle and protein will bind with one another is an important step toward being able to design antibiotics and antivirals on demand, and a computer model developed at U-M can do it. This video explores how the new tool could help find ways to stop antibiotic-resistant infections and new viruses — and aid in the design of nanoparticles for different purposes.

    Read more about nanobiotics
  7. May 31, 2023

    Little trees, big impact

    The Bonsai and Penjing Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens is celebrating its 10th year in June with a month-long celebration, including workshops, demonstrations and family-friendly activities. Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum’s Bonsai collection actually began in 1977 and was formally established as the Bonsai and Penjing Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens in 2013. This video showcases how these little trees make a big impact.

    Read more about the Bonsai and Penjing Garden
  8. May 25, 2023

    New gun safety laws

    With Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s recent signing of the third piece of firearms safety legislation into law, Michigan joins Washington, D.C., and 20 other states that are turning to extreme risk protection orders to prevent violence and deaths by firearms. In this video, April Zeoli, policy core director for U-M’s Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, explains the three new gun safety laws and details the purpose and history of red flag laws.

    Read more about the new gun safety laws in Michigan
  9. May 19, 2023

    chaos

    Winning contest photo, "chaos," of a person in a cave

    This photo by Anders Lundin, a senior at the time in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and the School of Information, took first place in Arts at Michigan’s “As I See It” March photo contest. The photo, taken in St. Paul, Minnesota, is titled “chaos.” The contest’s theme was “Surreal.”

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  10. May 18, 2023

    Morning glory garden

    Pictured is a research plot where morning glory diversity is studied at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. A new morning glory garden coming to Matthaei Botanical Gardens will show off how diverse a single group of closely related plants can be while connecting the botanical gardens’ visitors to faculty research. The new morning glory garden is part of a larger “Broader Impacts Garden” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. (Photo by Grace Zhang)

    Pictured is a research plot where morning glory diversity is studied at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. A new morning glory garden coming to the gardens will show off how diverse a single group of closely related plants can be while connecting the botanical gardens’ visitors to faculty research. The new morning glory garden is part of a larger “Broader Impacts Garden” that will bring MBGNA’s faculty research from behind the scenes. (Photo by Grace Zhang)

    Read more about the new morning glory garden