Multimedia Features

  1. September 3, 2024

    A surprising connection

    Photo of Irene Butter and Kate Bauer posing together in Bauer’s home

    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
  2. August 30, 2024

    Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Awards

    Composite photo of one man and four women who recieved the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award

    Recipients of the 2024 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Awards are, top row from left, Paul J. Fleming, Gretchen Keppel-Alecks and Fiona Lee; bottom row from left, Tiffany Ng and Deborah Rivas-Drake. The five were recognized for their exceptional contributions to fostering a culturally and ethnically diverse community at U-M.

    Read more about the Harold R. Johnson Diviersity Service Awards
  3. August 28, 2024

    Honey and chocolate

    Brian Stork, assistant professor of urology in the Medical School, took up beekeeping about 10 years ago. He connected with Patricia Christopher from Patricia’s Chocolate in Grand Haven, which resulted in the idea to make a tiny chocolate beehive filled with honey ganache and decorated with 22 karat edible gold leaf. More than $10,000 in proceeds from the sale of Stork’s Happy Hive Honey Chocolates have gone to Step Up in Muskegon, which helps unsupported young adults with stable housing, adult mentors and other services so they can become independent. This video explains the collaboration and how it benefits those in need.

    Read more about the collaboration
  4. August 27, 2024

    Band, take the (new practice) field

    John Pasquale, director of Michigan Marching and Athletic Bands, leads the band in a rehearsal at its new Elbel Field practice facility.

    As the Michigan Marching Band prepares for its upcoming season, it is now rehearsing at its new Elbel Field location. Elbel is now at the corner of South Fifth Avenue and Madison Street, a block north of its former location, and features several improvements. It was moved to allow construction of the Central Campus residential complex. In this photo, John Pasquale, director of Michigan Marching and Athletic Bands, leads the band in a rehearsal at the new facility. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)

    Read more about the band’s new practice field
  5. August 26, 2024

    Welcome to U-M

    New students were welcomed to the Ann Arbor campus during the New Student Convocation on Aug. 25 at Crisler Center. President Santa J. Ono, Provost Laurie McCauley and Martino Harmon, vice president for student life, were among the administrators who spoke to the students, who afterward gathered at nearby Michigan Stadium for a group photo on the field in the shape of a Block M. This video includes highlights from the day’s events.

    Read more about the New Student Convocation
  6. August 20, 2024

    A commitment to sustainability

    In his monthly message to the U-M community, President Santa J. Ono discusses how the university is committed to achieving carbon neutrality and fostering a campuswide culture of sustainability. Ono acknowledged the Planet Blue Ambassadors in this month’s Portrait of a Wolverine.

  7. August 9, 2024

    Voting precautions

    With polls predicting a close 2024 presidential election, swing-state outcomes could be decided by relatively small margins, particularly in areas where tougher election laws have been enacted since 2020. In this video, Barbara McQuade, professor from practice at the Law School, explains why voters must be proactive about checking their registration status and confirming poll locations, which sometimes change.

    Read a Q&A about voting rules
  8. August 2, 2024

    Ancient pot of gold

    Photo of a man taking notes amid a field of large stones, with an inset image of two gold coins

    A team of researchers led by U-M archaeologist Christopher Ratté has uncovered a hoard of gold coins, likely used to pay mercenary troops, buried in a small pot in the ancient Greek city of Notion in western Turkey. In this photo, Ratté records architectural details of the Temple of Athena at Notion. Inset: Two of the gold Persian coins, called darics, show a figure of a kneeling archer. (Photos courtesy of Notion Archaeological Project, University of Michigan)

    Read more about the discovery of ancient gold coins
  9. July 28, 2024

    National solar car champs

    College students surround a custom vehicle they built as it crosses a race finish line.

    Students on the U-M Solar Car Team race crew flank their vehicle, Astrum, while electrical engineering student Daryl Day drives it across the finish line of the American Solar Challenge in Casper, Wyoming, on July 27. The U-M team won the eight-day, distance-based race from Tennessee to Wyoming, reclaiming its title as national champions. U-M had won six consecutive American Solar Challenges until finishing second in 2018. This is the first U.S. race they’ve competed in since then, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Holly Zumbrunnen)

    Read more about the Solar Car Team’s victory
  10. July 24, 2024

    Discussing disability and accessibility

    President Santa J. Ono used his July video message to share a discussion with Oluwaferanmi Okanlami, director of student accessibility and accommodation services in Student Life, about disability and accessibility at U-M. Ono also announced that Okanlami, who also is an assistant professor of family medicine, of physical medicine and rehabilitation, of urology and of orthopaedic surgery in the Medical School, is this month’s Portrait of a Wolverine.