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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)

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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)

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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.

March 31, 2023

Autonomous vehicle safety

The push toward truly autonomous vehicles has been hindered by the cost and time associated with safety testing, but a new system developed at U-M shows that artificial intelligence can reduce the testing miles required by 99.99%. This video shows how researchers are using artificial intelligence to train virtual vehicles to perform adversarial behaviors that can challenge autonomous vehicles.

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March 28, 2023

Gershwin times two

Logan Skelton, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of music (piano) had long dreamed of creating a fully realized two-piano arrangement of George Gershwin’s 1928 orchestral work “An American in Paris.” Now, Skelton’s ambitious project is nearing completion, supported by the U-M Gershwin Initiative, School of Music, Theatre & Dance faculty, and two SMTD students who assisted him throughout the project. In this video, Skelton explains how this project became a reality.

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March 27, 2023

An historic undertaking

In the first step of an ambitious effort to inventory global holdings, a group of natural history museums has mapped the total collections from 73 of the world’s largest natural history museums in 28 countries, including the collections from four U-M museums. The Herbarium, the Museum of Zoology, the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology and the Museum of Paleontology (pictured) have about 17 million specimens and artifacts combined. (Photo courtesy of U-M Museum of Paleontology)

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March 23, 2023

In honor of Hutch

Athletic director Warde Manuel gives a congratulatory hug to retired softball coach Carol Hutchins after the Board of Regents voted March 23 to rename the university’s softball stadium in Hutchins’ honor. The home of U-M’s softball program will now be known as Alumni Field at Carol Hutchins Stadium. (Photo by Roger Hart, Michigan Photography)