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September 3, 2018

It’s time

It’s the start of a new semester and the University of Michigan is welcoming its students, faculty and staff to the 2018-19 academic year with a video that captures scenes from campus life. Welcome back and welcome home.

August 26, 2018

Listening to Puerto Rico

While their football rivalry will come to a head this weekend, U-M and Notre Dame are also working together on “Listening to Puerto Rico,” a free, online global learning teach-out designed to remind the world of those who battle daily to overcome the devastation wrought one year ago by Hurricane Maria. In this video, U-M President Mark Schlissel and Notre Dame President John Jenkins explain how the two universities are collaborating.

August 15, 2018

Pumas on the move

The bronze pumas that greeted visitors to the Museum of Natural History when it was housed in the Ruthven Museums Building have moved, along with the museum, to their new home at the new Biological Sciences Building. From left, David Belmore, Neil Heller (driving the lift) and William Suojanen of Krull Construction place one of the feline sculptures at its new location. (Photo by Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography)

August 12, 2018

Finding lead pipes in Flint

Copper or lead? It’s the burning question in Flint as the painstaking process to find, remove and replace lead water pipes continues this summer. In this video, Eric Schwartz, assistant professor of marketing, discusses how U-M students and professors, working with the city, helped answer that question with data science, a method that could save as much as $10 million — a 10 percent savings and roughly equivalent to replacing the lead pipes in an additional 2,000 homes.

August 7, 2018

Global CO2 Initiative

The mission of the Global CO2 Initiative at U-M is to fund and conduct research to transform carbon dioxide into commercially successful products. In this video, Volker Sick, associate vice president for research of natural sciences and engineering, and Global CO2 Initiative lead, explains what the initiative hopes to achieve.

August 5, 2018

2018 D-SIP showcase

Zion Jackson, an incoming junior at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, presents his fundraising project at the annual Development Summer Internship Program showcase Aug. 3 at Palmer Commons. Jackson helped plan the second annual Healthy Kids Fair at Packard Health in Ypsilanti. He is speaking with Betsy Jackman (left), executive director of talent management for the Office of University Development, and Erica Jenkins, manager of annual giving and alumni relations for the School of Education. Jackson was one of 23 D-SIP interns, who worked on projects in a different school, college or unit. (Photo by Lon Horwedal, Michigan Photography)

July 31, 2018

Solar tech and water desalination

Over the past year, a team of students from U-M developed a proprietary process to provide a cost-effective and easy solution to water scarcity issues in coastal regions in Mexico. In this video, Jose Alfaro, clinical assistant professor of environment and sustainability, and students explain how the new process and technology results in both a salable by-product, by processing brine into salt, and an improved capacity for coastal fishers to bring their catch to larger markets.

July 22, 2018

Novum takes second in ASC

The U-M Solar Car Team and its single-hull vehicle, Novum, cross the finish line in Bend, Oregon, on Sunday at the end of the the nine-day, 1,700-mile American Solar Challenge. In a tough race that crossed the Rocky Mountains, the U-M team placed second, breaking a string of six consecutive first-place ASC finishes. U-M came in just 16 minutes behind Western Sydney University in one of the closest U.S. solar races in the event’s history. (Photo courtesy of the American Solar Challenge)

July 15, 2018

Great Lakes safety

A U-M staff member who almost drowned in Lake Michigan is now working to save the lives of others. Jamie Racklyeft, communication director for the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research, was rescued from a Lake Michigan rip current in 2012. In this video, Racklyeft describes how that life-changing experience prompted him to form the Great Lakes Water Safety Consortium, pulling together people from various areas of expertise to work to prevent drownings.

July 10, 2018

Biofuel from algae

University scientists grew various combinations of freshwater algal species in 80 artificial ponds at U-M’s E.S. George Reserve near Pinckney, Michigan, in the first large-scale, controlled experiment to test the widely held idea that biodiversity can improve the performance of algal biofuel systems in the field. In this video, researchers from the School for Environment and Sustainability and the College of Engineering discuss how the process works and what it may accomplish.