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June 26, 2018

New Survival Flight jet

Michigan Medicine’s Survival Flight has added a new Bombardier Learjet 75 fixed-wing aircraft to its existing fleet of three rotor-wing aircrafts to serve even more critically injured patients and improve organ procurement services. In this video, Denise Landis, clinical director for Survival Flight, discusses the new jet’s features and capabilities for better serving patients.

June 19, 2018

Straw-bale building

What can a house made of straw bales teach us about sustainability? A U-M class recently completed one — Ann Arbor’s first student-built, off-the-grid structure on campus — to bring awareness to natural building, local food and sustainable living. In this video, Jeremy Moghtader, Campus Farm program manager, and Joe Trumpey, associate professor of art, natural resources, and environment, whose Green Building class built the structure, discuss its benefits and learning opportunities.

June 10, 2018

Third Century Initiative’s impact

U-M’s Third Century Initiative has changed the university’s culture around engaged learning, a comprehensive report shows. This video explores the impact of the $50 million project to transform teaching and scholarship at the university.

June 4, 2018

Driverless ride

The Mcity Driverless Shuttle, a research project at U-M, launched Monday on North Campus. The shuttle will run on 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday, weather permitting. There is no cost to riders, and the two shuttles will cover a one-mile route at the North Campus Research Complex roughly every 10 minutes.

May 28, 2018

Bloomin’ peonies

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The Nichols Arboretum peony garden has begun its annual transformation from green shoots to waves of white, pink and red as it bursts into nearly 10,000 blooms. At the beginning of this week, the main beds of herbaceous peonies were beginning to open. The tree peonies are still blooming in the surrounding beds. The peony garden offers a spring display from sunrise to sunset daily from approximately Memorial Day, when these pictures were taken, to mid-June. (Photos by Joseph Mooney)

May 22, 2018

Robotic suits

At the first Applied Collegiate Exoskeleton Competition, the requested attire was circuits and motors. Teams from five schools recently gathered at U-M to tune-up, learn and demonstrate their powered mechanical suits, or exoskeletons, which augment the wearer’s strength and abilities. In this video, members of the U-M team explain the goal of the competition and how it worked.

May 17, 2018

Images4Earth

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In celebration of everything that makes Earth great, the School for Environment and Sustainability is showcasing photos taken by students, staff and faculty. This image, captured by SEAS master’s degree student Carol Maiones, shows three female lions in Kenya’s Nairobi National Park eyeing zebras in the background. This photo was the winner of the animals portion of the Images4Earth contest.

May 15, 2018

Water on a Jupiter moon?

Europa, a moon of Jupiter, has long been suspected of hiding a global ocean beneath its icy surface, and U-M researchers have now found the strongest evidence yet to suggest it has plumes ejecting water from its subsurface into space. In this video, Xianzhe Jia, associate professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, explains how data collected during NASA’s 20-year-old Galileo mission is helping provide new insights into Europa.

May 13, 2018

Solar probe

In this video, Justin Kasper, associate professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, prepares a model of the Faraday cup for testing prior to this summer’s Parker Solar Probe launch. Kasper is principal investigator for the investigation that will measure the solar wind. The cup is tested in a vacuum chamber and hit with light from four modified IMAX projectors and particles from an ion gun — all to ensure it will operate in the sun’s atmosphere.

May 10, 2018

Coastal sustainability

Allison Steiner (right), associate professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, and earth and environmental sciences, was in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to discuss her research on harmful algal blooms. Her project focuses on enhancing sustainability in coastal communities threatened by harmful algal blooms by advancing and integrating environmental and socio-economic modeling. Steiner is speaking here with Dawn Tilbury, assistant director of the National Science Foundation Directorate for Engineering, and a U-M professor of mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering and computer science. (Photo by Madeline Nykaza, Washington Office)