Multimedia Features

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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.

  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. February 7, 2023

    Clothing recycling ‘game changer’?

    Brian Iezzi, a postdoctoral researcher, scans and measures the photonic fibers in the fabric he developed at the North Campus Research Center. Iezzi and Max Shtein, professor of materials science and engineering in the College of Engineering, are helping develop woven-in labels made with inexpensive photonic fibers. The fibers would serve as a barcode for clothing and other textiles to assist in sorting them for recycling purposes. (Photo by Marcin Szczepanski, College of Engineering)

    Read more about this research and its potential impact
  8. February 6, 2023

    Brain health, concussions and sports

    Not enough is understood about the long-term relationship between brain health, concussion history and sports. To that end, the Michigan Alumni Brain Health Study will examine whether sport participation and concussions are associated with later-life brain health in former U-M athletes and nonathletes. In this video, Jarrett Irons, former All-Big Ten linebacker and a U-M football co-captain in the mid-1990s, discusses his and his father’s experience with football as it relates to brain health, and U-M’s research into the effects of concussion.

    Read more about the Michigan Alumni Brain Health Study
  9. February 3, 2023

    Fishing for knowledge

    A 319 million-year-old ray-finned fish fossil at U-M provides new information about early evolutionary history. CT scanning helped create a 3D rendering of the skull, revealing the soft tissue brain and associated nerves inside, a rarity found in fossils. In this video, researchers discuss how comparing modern ray-finned fish to the fossil allows them to further study what conditions were like early in the evolutionary history of ray-finned fish.

    Read more about the 319 million-year-old fish
  10. February 2, 2023

    Helping hands

    Decorative hand splints.

    Some of the personalized hand splints designed by Augusta Simmons, a board-certified hand therapist who works at the Northville Health Center. Simmons has been fitting patients with splints for over 25 years. She got tired of looking at the standard white- or cream-colored splint material, so she created custom-designed splints to help boost the mood and self-esteem of her patients. (Photo courtesy of Augusta Simmons)

    Read more about Augusta Simmons’ work