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September 24, 2024

Oliphant exhibits

The work of Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Pat Oliphant is on display at the William L. Clements Library to explore the role that art plays in democratic culture. In addition, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy has an exhibit that focuses specifically on its namesake, Gerald R. Ford, through Oliphant’s drawings. This collage of sketches by Oliphant shows, clockwise from upper left, U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush, and presidential candidates Bob Dole and Ross Perot. (Images courtesy of Wallace House Center for Journalists)

Clovis camp

Independent researcher Thomas Talbot stands before the Belson Clovis site in St. Joseph County. Talbot and other researchers who in 2021 discovered that Clovis people visited Michigan thousands of years ago recently have confirmed that those people traveled to the site annually. The discovery of small pieces of tools that were made 400 miles away and then sharpened at the Clovis site informed the researchers. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)

Read more about the Clovis site and the discoveries there

September 20, 2024

Big House fitness

U-M faculty and staff joined in a variety of health and well-being activities on and off the Michigan Stadium field Sept. 19 during the annual “Be Well in the Big House” event organized by MHealthy. One of the activities was cardio drumming in the stadium concourse. (Photo by Christina Merrill, Michigan Photography)

View a gallery of photos from the fitness-filled afternoon

September 19, 2024

Cannabis and older adults

Whether they’re using it for recreational or medical reasons, a sizable percentage of people in their 50s and older have smoked, eaten, drunk or applied to their skin at least one form of cannabis in the past year, U-M’s National Poll on Healthy Aging shows. In all, 21% of people age 50 and older said they used a form of cannabis that contains the psychoactive compound THC at least once in the past year. In this video, Erin E. Bonar, Kathy Fant Brzoznowski Research Professor of Behavioral Health Technology Innovations and professor of psychiatry in the Medical School, discusses findings from the poll and implications for people 50 and older.

Read more about cannabis use and older adults

September 18, 2024

Squid-inspired screen

A flexible screen developed by U-M engineers and inspired, in part, by squids can store and display encrypted images like a computer — using magnetic fields rather than electronics. The screen could be used wherever light and power sources are cumbersome, including clothing, stickers, ID badges and barcodes. This video describes the functionality of the screen and how it was developed by Joerg Lahann, the Wolfgang Pauli Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Abdon Pena-Francesch, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering.

2024 Wallenberg Medalist

Provost Laurie McCauley awards architect, poet and African environmental activist Nnimmo Bassey the Wallenberg Medal for his outstanding humanitarian work at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business Robertson Auditorium on Sept. 10. Bassey, executive director of the Nigeria-based ecological think tank Health of Mother Earth Foundation, also delivered the 29th Wallenberg Lecture, declaring, “We are part of nature, not apart from it.” (Photo by Erin Kirkland, Michigan Photography)

Read more about the Wallenberg Medal and Lecture

September 10, 2024

The bumpy road to greatness

The U-M Baja Racing team competes in three major Baja SAE competitions throughout the year, with the first 2024 challenge taking place in Gorman, California, against 61 teams from the United States, Canada, Mexico and India. At the end of the season, the team with the highest normalized point total across all three events wins the first place Mike Schmidt Memorial Iron Team Award, so each competition matters. While this year’s season started with a lot of frustration for the U-M team, that hardship made way for teamwork, creativity, grit and empathy. In this video, engineering students on the team discuss the preparations, competition and challenges that await them.

XR and VR in the classroom

A student uses virtual reality technology in Peter Toogood’s course “Augmenting Reality in Medicinal Chemistry.” U-M has seen a boom in extended reality and virtual reality technology since launching its XR Initiative in the fall of 2019, with many faculty members using it in their classrooms. The Center for Academic Innovation offers more than 100 VR headsets for instructional use and access to a full virtual production studio. (Photo by Sean Corp, Center for Academic Innovation)

Read more about how faculty are using VR/XR technology in classrooms

September 5, 2024

High-stakes presidential debate

Tens of millions of voters are gearing up for the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, set for Sept. 10 on ABC. In this video, Aaron Kall, the Lee H. Hess Director of Debate at U-M’s Debate Program, explains why the stakes are high for both candidates, with national polls indicating a close race.

Read a Q&A with Aaron Kall about the upcoming debate

September 3, 2024

A surprising connection

Irene Butter (left), professor emerita of health management and policy, and Kate Bauer, associate professor of nutritional sciences, both in the School of Public Health, discovered their families had a surprising connection. A mystery stemming from one line in a Bauer family letter from 1943 sparked a search that resulted in the discovery of a long-ago link to Butter’s family — a link that grew out of actions taken by both their families during the Holocaust. (Photo by Hannah Hensel)

Read more about Irene Butter and Kate Bauer