Multimedia Features

  1. November 9, 2022

    Election Day 2022

    Photo of students in line at the Duderstadt Center.

    Voters took to the polls at various locations across the Ann Arbor campus on Nov. 8 to cast their ballots in the 2022 midterm election. The Ann Arbor City Clerk operated two satellite offices on campus, including at the Duderstadt Center on North Campus where students lined up to register and complete their ballots. (Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)

    View more photos from Election Day on campus
  2. November 8, 2022

    Go Blue and go vote

    Election Day is here, with a variety of races at the statewide, congressional, legislative and local levels. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. for in-person voting, and absentee ballots can be dropped off at city or township clerks’ offices until 8 p.m. In this video, Martino Harmon, vice president for student life; Chris Kolb, vice president for government relations; and a host of students explain their reasons for voting. 

    Read more about how and where to vote
  3. November 7, 2022

    Healthy Schools

    Project Healthy Schools, a collaboration among U-M and communities across the state, is designed to reduce childhood obesity and improve the current and future health of Michigan’s youth. More than 150 middle schools in 47 Michigan counties have implemented the project since it began in 2004. In this video, program managers and participating students discuss the benefits of the program.

    Read more about Project Healthy Schools
  4. November 4, 2022

    Student teams yield engineers

    From left to right, Xanthe Thomas, Gillian James, Eli Richards, Deborah Reisner and Ben Routhier fill their concrete canoe with water to prove it can float just below the surface—a requirement for the competition. Photo by Brenda Ahearn

    The Wilson Student Team Project Center hosts dozens of student organizations who design and build different projects, often for competitions against other teams across the nation or globe. For many students, their time on those teams often turns out to be one of their most formative experiences at the College of Engineering. From left to right, Concrete Canoe team members Xanthe Thomas, Gillian James, Eli Richards, Deborah Reisner and Ben Routhier of the Concrete Canoe team fill their canoe with water to prove it can float just below the surface — a requirement for their competition. (Photo by Brenda Ahearn, College of Engineering)

    Read more about the student teams at the Wilson Center
  5. November 3, 2022

    Creating equity in flood recovery

    Flooding is the leading cause of property damage and deaths in the United States — bigger than earthquakes and forest fires combined. Branko Kerkez, an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and his students at the Digital Water Lab partnered with researchers at the Center for Social Solutions to measure, better understand and prevent flooding and its aftermath in some of the most vulnerable communities. This video explains the partnership and the work involved.

  6. October 31, 2022

    Pavilion progress proceeds

    Photo of Michigan Medicine employees signing a beam

    Michigan Medicine faculty, staff and learners celebrated a new phase of construction that will soon begin on The Pavilion at U-M Health. An all-day beam signing event recently drew nearly 2,000 employees who each signed one of the structural beams for The Pavilion, making their mark on the future of health care at Michigan Medicine. (Photo by Deanna Norris, Michigan Medicine)

    Read more about The Pavilion’s progress and view a photo gallery
  7. October 31, 2022

    Winter Commencement honorary degrees

    Photo collage of Winter Commencement honorary degree recipients

    From left, Vera J. Songwe, chair of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility and co-chair of the High Level Panel on Climate Finance; Rebecca M. Blank, an internationally respected economist and educator and former dean of the Ford School; and Melissa J. Moore, chief scientific officer emeritus of Moderna, have been recommended for honorary degrees at U-M’s Winter Commencement. Songwe will be the main speaker at the Dec. 18 commencement ceremonies at Crisler Center.

    Read more about the honorary degree recipients
  8. October 28, 2022

    Searching for accurate voting information

    Voters can easily find information about political issues and candidates from various sources, but the challenge is determining what’s accurate and why it’s being shared. In this video, Arthur Lupia, the Gerald R. Ford Distinguished University Professor of Political Science, talks about how voters can seek accurate information before going to the polls. 

    Read a Q&A with Arthur Lupia about voting information
  9. October 26, 2022

    Reducing single-use plastic

    Photo of a student filling up a reusable water bottle

    UM-Dearborn started installing water bottle filling stations in 2020, and it now has 19 across eight campus buildings, including four new stations that were installed this year. To date, the stations have replaced the equivalent of nearly 108,000 single-use plastic bottles. (Photo by Rudra Mehta)

    Read more about UM-Dearborn’s water bottle filling effort
  10. October 25, 2022

    ‘Race to the Sunset’

    Race to the Sunset, photo of Brooklyn Bridge at twilight

    “Race to the Sunset” by LSA student Phoebe Huang is the first-place winner for Arts at Michigan’s fall 2022 photo contest. Competitions take place periodically throughout the year, with calls for art using different themes and mediums. The October contest’s theme was “Travels.” This photo was taken in Brooklyn, New York.

    View all the finalists in the fall contest