Multimedia Features

  1. July 13, 2022

    President-elect Santa Ono

    Santa J. Ono, the president and vice chancellor of the University of British Columbia, has been named the 15th president of the University of Michigan. (Roger Hart, Michigan Photography)

    Santa J. Ono, the president and vice chancellor of the University of British Columbia, has been named the 15th president of the University of Michigan. The Board of Regents voted unanimously to appoint Ono during a special meeting July 13 in Ann Arbor. He will be the first Asian American to lead U-M when his five-year term begins Oct. 13. Ono, 59, is an experienced vision researcher whose pioneering work in experimental medicine focuses on the immune system and eye disease. (Roger Hart, Michigan Photography)

    Read more about President-elect Santa Ono
  2. July 12, 2022

    ‘The Gift’

    The U-M Museum of Art's current exhibition, "Watershed," includes a mural painted by artist Bonnie Devine. Devine began painting "The Gift" at the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I on July 6 during museum hours and is expected to have the mural completed by July 15. Museum visitors are permitted to watch Devine while she paints the mural, which will depict a brightly colored map of the Great Lakes region looking out at a highway overlaid across the land. It will examine violent accounts of colonial expansion across the Great Lakes watershed.

    The U-M Museum of Art’s current exhibition, “Watershed,” includes a mural painted by artist Bonnie Devine. Devine began painting “The Gift” at the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I on July 6 during museum hours and is expected to have the mural completed by July 15. Museum visitors are permitted to watch Devine while she paints the mural, which will depict a brightly colored map of the Great Lakes region looking out at a highway overlaid across the land. It will examine violent accounts of colonial expansion across the Great Lakes watershed. (Photo by UMMA staff)

    See a photo gallery of the artist’s progress
  3. July 1, 2022

    Engineering class benches

    Photo of 1909 bench

    Four benches, gifts of the College of Engineering classes of 1909, 1911, 1913 and 1920, sit on the plaza near the west end of Lay Automotive Lab on North Campus. The donating class’s year has been worked into the wrought iron legs of each bench. The Record periodically highlights pieces of public art at U-M. Learn more about this piece.

     

    Browse an online collection of public artworks
  4. June 23, 2022

    Where the mastodon roamed

    Around 13,200 years ago, a roving male mastodon died in a bloody mating-season battle with a rival in what is present-day northeast Indiana. Chemical analysis of the right tusk from this extinct animal, which is known as the Buesching mastodon, showed for the first time that large male mastodons like Buesching migrated each year to their mating grounds. The study was led by researchers at U-M and the University of Cincinnati.

    Read more about this study
  5. June 16, 2022

    Hear the peonies

    The newly minted W.E. Upjohn Peony Garden is celebrating 100 years of peonies and, thanks to U-M doctoral candidate Alexis Lamb, a visit to the garden engages not only the senses of sight and scent, but also sound. This video explores Lamb’s project, “Hybrid Cultivars,” which consists of 27 single-pipe chimes installed throughout the garden.

    Read more about the chimes at the peony garden
  6. June 13, 2022

    Solar car No. 16

    Delayed by the pandemic, the U-M Solar Car Team unveiled Aevum before an audience of sponsors, automotive and solar industry representatives, and supporters in the ballroom of the Michigan Union on June 10. Aevum is the 16th car made by the Michigan Solar Car Team since its founding in 1989.

    Delayed by the pandemic, the U-M Solar Car Team unveiled Aevum before an audience of sponsors, automotive and solar industry representatives, and supporters in the ballroom of the Michigan Union on June 10. Aevum is the 16th car made by the Michigan Solar Car Team since its founding in 1989.

    Read more about the new solar car Aevum
  7. June 8, 2022

    Birds of a feather

    Two peregrine falcon chicks — named Conor and Norah by U-M staff members actively involved with the management of the nesting box — recently hatched in a nesting box atop the North Quad residential and academic complex. The pair was banded May 20 by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. 

    Two peregrine falcon chicks — named Conor and Norah by U-M staff members actively involved with the management of the nesting box — recently hatched atop the North Quad residential and academic complex. The pair was banded May 20 by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. (Photo courtesy of the Michigan DNR)

    Read more about the peregrine falcon chicks
  8. June 7, 2022

    Robotics taking off

    The College of Engineering’s new undergraduate program in robotics will empower students to practice the full spectrum of robotics, starting this fall following state approval from the Michigan Association of State Universities on June 2. In this video, Elliott Rouse, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, describes how his research combines many different fields and the vision that he has for the robotics department.

    Read more about the new undergraduate robotics program
  9. June 1, 2022

    Firearms acquisition among Asian Americans

    Asian Americans who experienced increased acts of racism at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic were more likely to acquire firearms and ammunition for self-defense, according to a study by researchers at U-M and Eastern Michigan University. In this video, study co-author Hsing-Fang Hsieh, assistant research scientist in health behavior and health education at the School of Public Health, explains the link between increased acts of racism and increased firearm purchases among Asian Americans.

    Read more about this research
  10. May 24, 2022

    Ancient grains

    U-M’s Kelsey Museum of Archeology contains ancient grains and other food material from the ancient village of Karanis, Egypt, originally excavated in the 1920s. Working with universities from Belgium, U-M researchers will study the material and reassess the notion that the ancient diet was predominantly malnourished. This video explores the Kelsey’s collection and how it fits into this latest research project.

    Read more about the ancient grains research