Multimedia Features

  1. 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.

  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. July 7, 2021

    COVID collection

    Student films. Journal entries. Tributes to hospital workers. The Bentley Historical Library’s COVID-19 collection includes 265 digital items from more than 150 donors. Archivists are still collecting submissions, with an eye now on how the pandemic continues to touch people’s lives more than a year after it started.

    Read more about the Bentley’s COVID-19 collection
  9. July 1, 2021

    PrivacyMic

    Microphones are perhaps the most common electronic sensor in the world, with an estimated 320 million listening for our commands in the world’s smart speakers. The trouble is that they’re capable of hearing everything else, too. But a team of U-M researchers has developed a system that can inform a smart home — or listen for the signal that would turn on a smart speaker — without eavesdropping on audible sound. In this video, researchers discuss how PrivacyMic works.

    Read more about this smart speaker that will not eavesdrop
  10. June 25, 2021

    Meet Big Flappo Jr.

    The peregrine falcon chick that recently hatched in a nesting box on the roof of North Quad has a large wingspan to live up to a new name: Big Flappo Jr. The winning name was selected from dozens of suggestions through a recent online naming contest after the U-M community was invited to participate. (Jody Mathias, Environment, Health & Safety)

    Read more about the selection process that led to Big Flappo Jr.