Multimedia Features
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September 28, 2020
Blanketing UMMA in jute
Read more about Ibrahim Mahama’s installationThe U-M Institute for the Humanities today begins installing the work of Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama on the facade of the U-M Museum of Art. Mahama creates public art by repurposing materials — in this case jute sacks — to explore themes of commodity, migration, globalization and economic exchange. In this photo, Institute for the Humanities staff prepare the jute sacks from Ghana for installation. (Photo by Juliet Hinely, Institute for the Humanities)
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September 24, 2020
Exercise and masks
Read more about the in-person kinesiology course on wearable technologyAs gym lovers and sports enthusiasts head back to their favorite activities, one of the adjustments they face is exercising with a mask. Students in an advanced kinesiology class this fall are using the latest technology to study how movement and function impact health during workouts with and without a face covering. In this video, students conduct mini-experiments on the body’s reaction to wearing a mask during exercise.
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September 22, 2020
Fending off the flu
Read more about flu shot optionsPresident Mark Schlissel receives his flu shot from Debbie Renna recently in the Rogel Ballroom of the Michigan Union. Faculty, staff and students have multiple options to receive a flu shot, which is deemed even more important during the current COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography)
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September 21, 2020
Separating conjoined twins
Read more about the surgery to separate Sarabeth and AmeliaSarabeth and Amelia Irwin spent the first 13 months of their lives inseparable. They’d never slept in their own beds, played in different rooms or ever been held alone. But that dramatically changed after doctors at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital successfully separated the one-year-old conjoined twins who were connected from their chests to belly buttons. Please note, this video contains graphic surgical content.
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September 18, 2020
Roadmap for teachers
Read more about the Center for Digital Curricula’s workDigital curricula can make learning at school or at home seamless, and can enable continuous learning, regardless of location. K-5 teachers and students throughout Michigan are building thriving learning communities online by using free deeply-digital, standards-aligned curricula and platform developed by the U-M Center for Digital Curricula. This video, part of the This is Michigan series, explains how the center’s curricula engages students and supports synchronous collaboration.
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September 17, 2020
Sticking the landing
Read more about this high-powered computingFuture spacecraft bound for the moon or beyond will benefit from high-powered computer simulations underway at U-M that model the particulate mayhem set in motion by rocket thruster-powered landings. Jesse Capecelatro, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, leads a team developing physics-based models that can be incorporated into codes used by NASA to help predict what will happen when a spacecraft attempts to land. This video explains that the key is simulating how spacecraft rocket plumes interact with planet and lunar surfaces.
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September 16, 2020
Campuswide town hall
President Mark Schlissel and Provost Susan Collins conducted a campuswide online town hall Sept. 15 in which they addressed a variety of questions from moderator Scott Page of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and LSA. This video is the full 45-minute session, which included discussions of U-M’s planning for the fall semester under the COVID-19 pandemic and its reaction to racial injustice that occupied the country over the summer.
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September 15, 2020
GEO strike update
Read more about U-M and the GEO strikeFollowing the Graduate Employees’ Organization vote to extend its strike, President Mark Schlissel said U-M can no longer allow to continue the “profound disruption to the education we’ve promised our undergraduate students” and authorized seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the strike. In this video, President Mark Schlissel explains why he approved seeking a court order to send striking Graduate Employees’ Organization members back to work.
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September 14, 2020
Surveillance testing
Learn more about the Community Sampling and Tracking ProgramLSA undergraduate student Breanna Campbell (left) checks in with Caroline Merkel, an undergraduate public health student, to receive her test kit at Palmer Commons as part of U-M’s Community Sampling and Tracking Program. The free, opt-in, voluntary surveillance testing program for those on the Ann Arbor campus plays a critical role in the public health response to COVID-19 and adds to U-M’s understanding of how the virus is affecting the campus community. (Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography)
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September 11, 2020
Business vs. government
Read a Q&A with Andy HoffmanIt’s no secret that business pokes its head into policymaking and government mingles in the market. What surprised Andy Hoffman, professor of management and organizations, and environment and sustainability, was how little the relationships between them and their influences upon each other were being covered in business schools. That led him to create Business in Democracy: Advocacy, Lobbying, and Public Interest, a graduate-level course at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. In this video, discusses the importance of cooperation between business and government.
