Multimedia Features
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March 14, 2024
Unlocking creativity
Read more about the prison art exhibitionThe 28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons runs March 19-April 2 at the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. These are some of the 750 works of art by 490 artists that will be on display. The exhibition is put on by U-M’s Prison Creative Arts Project and features artwork by people incarcerated in Michigan prisons. (Courtesy of Prison Creative Arts Project)
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March 13, 2024
Hitting the evolutionary jackpot
Read more about the evolution of snakesMore than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small, nondescript lizards in the shadow of the dinosaurs. Then, in a burst of innovation in form and function, the ancestors of snakes evolved legless bodies that could slither across the ground, highly sophisticated chemical detection systems to find and track prey, and flexible skulls that enabled them to swallow large animals. In this video, Daniel Rabosky, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in LSA, explains this evolutionary explosion of snake diversity.
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March 8, 2024
Giving Blueday 2024
Read more about Giving BluedayU-M will celebrate 10 years of Giving Blueday on March 13. The annual day of giving is an opportunity for thousands of university supporters around the world to contribute to the U-M causes that matter to them. This video looks at what started 10 years ago and how the project is helping now.
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March 6, 2024
Cold-case partnership
UM-Dearborn students in a criminology and criminal justice course are working with a local sheriff’s office on decades-old cold cases. This video explores the effort, within the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters, that is one of various practice-based learning projects taking place in colleges across the Dearborn campus.
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March 5, 2024
Treating chronic pain
Millions of Americans suffer from chronic pain, limiting their productivity and reducing their quality of life. Alexandre DaSilva, professor of dentistry in the School of Dentistry, professor of learning health sciences in the Medical School and adjunct professor of psychology in LSA, and his U-M colleagues have designed PainTrek, a mobile app that integrates neuroimaging and brain stimulation research to better track, communicate and understand pain. This video explores how PainTrek offers patients a nuanced way to report pain and for physicians to track treatment efficacy.
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March 4, 2024
Improving traffic signal timing
Read more about the projectWith GPS data from as little as 6% of vehicles on the road, U-M researchers can recalibrate traffic signals to significantly reduce congestion and delays at intersections. This video describes how a pilot study conducted in Birmingham, Michigan, used connected vehicle data insights provided by General Motors to test its system, resulting in a 20% to 30% decrease in the number of stops at signalized intersections.
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February 22, 2024
Inclusive History Project
Learn more about the Inclusive History ProjectThe Inclusive History Project is studying and documenting a comprehensive history of the University of Michigan that is attentive to diversity, equity, and inclusion and stretches across the university’s three campuses and Michigan Medicine. In his latest video address to the U-M community, President Santa J. Ono gives an overview and updates on the project and honors IHP co-chairs Elizabeth R. Cole and Earl Lewis as “Portraits of a Wolverine.”
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February 20, 2024
Long lost ‘La, La, Lucille’
Read more about ‘La, La, Lucille’Last summer, U-M researcher Jacob Kerzner uncovered the complete musical orchestration of “La, La, Lucille,” making the musical possible to perform for the first time in nearly a century. Students at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance performed some of these recovered songs in a February concert, marking the first recordings with full orchestration of these previously lost songs. In this video, Aquila Sol provides vocals and Jayce Ogren leads the Contemporary Directions Ensemble in a performance of “Somehow It Seldom Comes True.”
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February 19, 2024
Convergence
Browse an online list of public artworks at U-MThis stainless steel sculpture by Jon Rush is on the Thompson Street side of the Institute for Social Research on Central Campus. By “inverting one ‘cage of triangles’ against the other,” Rush, a professor of art from 1962–2006 sought to symbolize ISR’s work in the study of social change. The Record periodically highlights pieces of public art at U-M.
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February 15, 2024
State gun laws
New gun laws took effect in Michigan on Feb. 13, ushering in opportunities to prevent injuries and deaths. In this video, April Zeoli, associate professor of health management and policy in the School of Public Health and director of the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention’s Policy Core, explains the implementation of the new laws and their effects on suicide, homicide, and gun violence against children, law enforcement officers and intimate partners.