Multimedia Features
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February 11, 2022
Prison from the inside out
Read more about the Inside-Out Prison Exchange programFor 15 years, the Inside-Out Prison Exchange program has encouraged UM-Dearborn students to think about crime and punishment mechanisms in human terms. Class topics include the origins of imprisonment and the construction of social order, reflects on how incarceration affects society outside the prison walls. In this photo, Bryan Jones (left), a former inmate who now works for the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, speaks with UM-Dearborn Associate Professor Anna Müller and students. (Photo by Sarah Tuxbury)
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February 10, 2022
Snow-resistant coating
Read more about the formulaIn an advance that could dramatically improve the productivity of solar panels in cold climates, a team led by U-M has demonstrated an inexpensive, clear coating that reduced snow and ice accumulation on solar panels, enabling them to generate up to 85 percent more energy in early testing. This time lapse video shows how panels coated with the formula shed ice and snow.
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February 8, 2022
Learning sciences gift
Read more about The Eileen Lappin Weiser Learning Sciences CenterA $14.7 million gift from U-M alumna Eileen Lappin Weiser is establishing The Eileen Lappin Weiser Learning Sciences Center in the School of Education to help reshape teaching and learning to meet the needs of all different kinds of learners. In this photo, students in the Master of Arts with Elementary Teacher Certification program work with elementary school students at Ann Arbor Open School in July 2021. (Photo by Leisa Thompson)
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February 7, 2022
A new work home
Read more and see photos of the renovated RuthvenAbundant sunlight, new offices and a restored rotunda were among the features welcoming about 200 U-M employees who moved from the Fleming Administration Building to the Alexander G. Ruthven Building. A three-year renovation effort transformed the former museum space into a flexible, modern workplace. Visitors are welcomed through a rotunda with its domed plaster ceiling decorated with carvings of delicate flowers, monkeys, geckos and swirling vines. The original 1928 lantern hangs from a medallion in the center. (Photo by Roger Hart, Michigan Photography)
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February 3, 2022
And the snow came down …
View a gallery of snowfall photosThe Cube in Regents’ Plaza stands unspun as a worker clears the snow around it. With much of southern Michigan under a winter storm warning Feb. 2 and 3, those who ventured out across campus did so amid a gentle, but steady, snowfall. View a gallery of snowfall photos. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)
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February 2, 2022
Presidential pop-in
Back on campus, President Mary Sue Coleman speaks to students in a Fundamental Physics for the Life Sciences II class, taught by Jens-Christian Meiners, professor of physics and of biophysics, in the new Central Campus Classroom Building. Coleman stopped by during her first day working in the Alexander G. Ruthven Building, which is connected to the CCCB and is the central administration’s new home. (Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)
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February 1, 2022
The business of biowaste
Read more about developing biowaste as an energy sourceJose Alfaro, an assistant professor of practice at the School for Environment and Sustainability, has pioneered new ways to harness sustainable energy from biowaste through innovative gasification technology. In this video, Alfaro, also a senior research fellow at U-M’s William Davidson Institute, discusses how the institute explored multiple pathways to commercialize and and expand his work.
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January 31, 2022
Visions of safety
Read more about Sara Fess’ Hidden Voices projectIt’s one thing to order a soy latte at a coffee shop. It’s quite another to be asked about sexual violence. That juxtaposition was what U-M senior and SAPAC volunteer Sara Fess was hoping for with her Hidden Voices project that asked M-36 Coffee Roasters Café customers: Imagine a world without sexual violence. What would be different?
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January 28, 2022
Locating lead
Read more about this Innovation Partnerships connectionU-M researchers designed software that uses machine learning to help the city of Flint bring clarity to lead service line inventory and replacement. Innovation Partnerships collaborated with researchers Eric Schwartz and Jacob Abernethy to launch BlueConduit, which has helped communities nationwide save millions of dollars, locate and fix lead service lines faster, and protect the health and safety of residents. This video explains the need for the software and how BlueConduit was launched.
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January 27, 2022
A gift of calligraphy
Read more about the Lo Chia-Lun Calligraphy CollectionThese are four items from a collection of Chinese calligraphy valued at more than $12 million that has been donated to the U-M Museum of Art by the family of Lo Chia-Lun. The Lo Chia-Lun Calligraphy Collection will contribute significantly to contemporary scholarship on Yuan and Ming dynasty calligraphy.
