Multimedia Features

  1. February 10, 2021

    Finding Your Purpose

    The COVID-19 pandemic has seen MOOC platforms and educational institutions report increased interest, but U-M’s Vic Strecher was not quite expecting 100,000 enrollments in eight months for “Finding Purpose and Meaning in Life: Living for What Matters Most.” In this video, Strecher, professor of public health, explains how finding one’s purpose in life is more important now than ever.

    Read a Q&A with Vic Strecher
  2. February 9, 2021

    Museum scientists

    Although strong evidence suggests the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 originated in bats, how and when it crossed from wildlife into humans is unknown. In a study recently published in the journal mBio, an international team of 15 biologists, including U-M’s Cody Thompson, say this lack of clarity has exposed a glaring weakness in the current approach to pandemic surveillance and response worldwide. In this video, Thompson and study co-lead author Kendra Phelps of EcoHealth Alliance discuss the importance of collecting and archiving specimens believed to harbor a virus, bacteria or parasite.

    Read more about the importance of preserving animal specimens
  3. February 8, 2021

    Answering COVID questions

    The bi-weekly Michigan Medicine town hall on Feb. 5 dealt with topics related to COVID-19 policies, procedures and vaccination. During a presentation at the beginning of this video, as well as a question-and-answer session in the second half, health system officials covered a variety of issues involving vaccine distribution.

    COVID-19 operations updates at Michigan Medicine
  4. February 5, 2021

    Vaccine hesitancy

    Decades of mistreatment and underrepresentation of people of color by the medical and scientific communities have resulted in a deep lack of trust, including when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine. Michigan Medicine is committed to ensuring no communities miss out on the full benefit of vaccination. This video shares a variety of voices encouraging everyone to remember that every shot counts.

    Read more about the effort to overcome vaccine hesitancy
  5. February 4, 2021

    Expansion at UM-Flint

    A 33-year-old building at UM-Flint is transformed thanks to a significant expansion that is adding 61,000 square feet of academic space to the campus. The campus and community recently celebrated the expansion of the Murchie Science Building with a virtual grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony, during which viewers took a video tour of the spaces that feature innovative labs, classrooms, and faculty and student areas, and heard from various campus and community leaders.

    Read more about the Murchie Science Building expansion
  6. February 3, 2021

    A scarf for Claude

    Photo of sculpture of Claude Shannon wearing a scarf. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)

    Following a recent snowfall, a benefactor provided a scarf for this sculpture of Claude Shannon, a U-M alumnus known as the “Father of Information Theory.” This scene, outside the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Building on North Campus, was one of many snowy visions seen around campus. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)

    View a gallery of winter images
  7. February 2, 2021

    Framing Identity

    These photos are part of “Framing Identity: Representations of Empowerment and Resilience in the Black Experience,” a new online exhibition at the William L. Clements Library. Samantha Hill, the 2019-21 Joyce Bonk Fellow at the Clements Library and graduate student at the School of Information, said, “My goal for this project was to focus on the creative accomplishments of African Americans to demonstrate how photography could illustrate positive aspects of the Black experience.”

    Read more about the exhibition
  8. February 1, 2021

    Maintaining well-being

    In this video clip from the latest in a series of Campus Conversations, U-M’s Chief Health Officer Preeti Malani discusses the B.1.1.7 COVID variant on campus, well-being during the pandemic, and the implications of misinformation about the vaccines. Listen to the full interview.

    Read more about maintaining well-being during the pandemic
  9. January 28, 2021

    Stormy beauty

    Photo of crashing Lake Michigan waves at sunset

    The winning photo of the 2020 Ecology and Environmental Biology Photographer at Large Contest is emblematic of a rough and stormy year. Graduate student Teresa Pegan captured  “Waves from an Alberta clipper at sunset” during a March trip to St. Joseph, Michigan. “I knew that the waves at sunset would look pretty, but I wasn’t expecting how magical it would look,” she said.

    Read more about the winning photo and view other entries
  10. January 27, 2021

    Legal aid

    Residents throughout Michigan and nationwide have been struggling to receive unemployment benefits during the global pandemic. With a historic amount of claims and other computer system issues, many are finding it difficult to fix mistakes when they are falsely accused of fraud. This video explains how U-M Law School students are providing free support and advocacy through the Workers’ Rights Clinic to help Michigan residents resolve problems and access the unemployment benefits they need.

    Read more about the Workers’ Rights Clinic