Multimedia Features

  1. August 10, 2022

    College confidant

    Through the Michigan College Advising Corps, a diverse group of recent U-M graduates works full-time as college advisers in under-served high schools throughout the state of Michigan to help students navigate every aspect of the college application process and identify their best fit among post-secondary options. The program, started in 2010, has helped more than 20,000 students throughout the state select and apply for colleges and scholarships.

    Read more about the Michigan College Advising Corps
  2. August 2, 2022

    Concussion research

    Concussions are a fundamental concern facing the United States military, the sports medicine community and society at large. Supported by a $42 million award from the NCAA and the Department of Defense, Steven Broglio, professor of kinesiology and director of the Michigan Concussion Center, and his colleagues are leading the largest-ever concussion and repetitive head impact study. This video looks at how their findings aim to uncover long-term effects of concussions in student-athletes and military service members.

    Read more about Steven Broglio and his concussion research
  3. July 27, 2022

    DEI commitment

    The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion this summer brought together university leadership teams — including deans, executive officers and unit directors — and DEI implementation leads for a series of retreats in which participants reflected on the outcomes of the previous plan and strategized for DEI 2.0. From left, College of Engineering Dean Alec D. Gallimore, Sheri Notaro, DEI director for the Institute for Social Research, and Associate General Counsel Maya Kobersy participate in a panel discussion during a DEI leadership retreat. (Lon Horwedel, Michigan Photography)

    Read more about U-M’s DEI commitment
  4. July 20, 2022

    Up North Impact

    From the Big House to the Mackinac Bridge, the impact of University of Michigan research, faculty, staff, alumni and students spans far beyond the borders of its three campuses, as shown in this video. University regents and other U-M leaders visited northern Michigan to strengthen the ties that bind U-M to all corners of the Great Lakes state. The trip included a Board of Regents meeting July 21 in St. Ignace.

    Learn more about U-M’s Up North Impact
  5. July 17, 2022

    Dead tree removed

    Grounds Services crews removed a dead American elm tree east of Mason Hall near the Diag on July 14-15. The 70-foot-tall tree, estimated to be between 150 and 200 years old, was determined to be a hazard. (Photo by Jose Juarez, Michigan Photography)

    See a photo gallery of the tree removal
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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