Multimedia Features

  1. September 2, 2021

    Farm field archaeology

    Independent researcher Thomas Talbot along with U-M researchers have identified a 13,000-year-old Clovis camp site, now thought to be the earliest archaeological site in Michigan. It predates previously identified human settlements in the Michigan basin and potentially rewrites the history of the settling of the region. In this video, Talbot and U-M archaeologists Brendan Nash and Henry Wright discuss what has been found at the  southwest Michigan site and its significance to the region’s archaeological history.

    Read more about the discoveries at the Belson Site
  2. September 1, 2021

    Wildfires, communities and climate change

    Forests and communities in the western United States face an existential crisis. Each year, as forests become drier and thicker with vegetation and development encroaches further into forested areas, wildfires grow larger, more frequent, and more damaging. In this video, faculty members from the School of Environment and Sustainability discuss the impact of wildfires on communities and whether climate change can be slowed under current conditions.

    Read more about wildfires, communities and climate change
  3. August 30, 2021

    Second Year Celebration

    Photo of woman handing a sophomore student a T-shirt.

    Carrie Henderson, a records and enrollment specialist in the Registrar’s office, hands a sophomore student a T-shirt during the Second Year Celebration on Aug. 28. Traditional welcome-to-campus activities for the Class of 2024 were put on hold last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with including those students, now sophomores, in the events for incoming freshmen this year, the university also threw a special celebration for second-year students on Ingalls Mall. (Photo by Austin Thomason)

    View more images from the Second Year Celebration
  4. August 30, 2021

    Coming back together again

    As a new school year begins, the U-M community celebrates students, faculty and staff returning to campus for the 2021 fall semester. This video captures the campus community’s spirit of renewed hope and determination to stay safe and stay well.

  5. August 25, 2021

    Preparing for a safe semester

    As students return to campus and the countdown continues to the start of the fall semester Aug. 30, Chief Health Officer Preeti Malani offers advice and reminders about what to expect and what to do to stay safe on campus this fall. In this video, she talks about COVID-19 vaccines, variants, face coverings and how to get the latest information.

    Keep up with the latest campus information about COVID-19
  6. August 18, 2021

    Sinkhole surprise

    The rise of oxygen levels early in Earth’s history paved the way for the spectacular diversity of animal life. But for decades, scientists have struggled to explain the factors that controlled this process, which unfolded over nearly 2 billion years. This video shows how an international research team, including researchers from U-M, studied present-day microbial communities growing under extreme conditions at the bottom of a submerged Lake Huron sinkhole in their search for answers.

    Read more about the oxygenation research
  7. August 4, 2021

    Science for Tomorrow

    As the COVID-19 pandemic forced most schools to take their classes online, the education staff at the U-M Museum of Natural History decided to send hands-on science into the homes of students. Staff members assembled more than 1,200 science kits with materials to conduct two experiments each. This video explains how the kits accompanied a virtual Science for Tomorrow program that was in lieu of the museum’s traditional on campus program that serves up to 150 students each year.

    Read more about how the program aided three middle schools
  8. July 28, 2021

    Nature-inspired sculpture

    Four sculptures that are part of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens exhibit titled "A Garden of Earthy Delights."

    “A Garden of Earthy Delights,” an installation of ceramic sculptures inspired by the habitats of the Great Lakes and the plants that grow in them, is now on view at U-M’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens. These are some of the 10 sculptures that are part of a collaborative exhibition marking the Ann Arbor Potters Guild’s 70th anniversary. (Photos by Jeri Hollister)

    Read more about the installation
  9. July 19, 2021

    (Steeple) chasing Olympic glory

    Doctoral student Mason Ferlic is among the 2020 Summer Olympics competitors with U-M ties. The Ph.D. student in statistics and LSA graduate instructor is shown here as he qualified for the U.S. men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase team recently in Eugene, Oregon. Before arriving in Tokyo, Ferlic is making a pit stop in Hawaii for a last week of preparation. The Summer Olympics will run from July 23-Aug. 8. (Photo courtesy of Mason Ferlic)

    Read more about Mason Ferlic’s Olympic journey
  10. July 14, 2021

    Solving a mystery

    A team of biologists and engineers used tiny sensors to confirm that an endangered land snail on the island of Tahiti avoided the invasive and predacious rosy wolfsnail by spending more time in the sun. The project is the first of its kind and was made possible by extremely small, lightweight sensing computers developed by David Blaauw, professor of electrical engineering and computer science. This video explains the project and collaboration among U-M biologists and engineers.

    Read more about this collaboration