Ask M - Eric Rabkin answers questions about vampires, werewolves, and more UM News Service 2024-10-23 | Ask M - Eric Rabkin answers questions about vampires, werewolves, and more
InPact at Home UM News Service 2020-07-06 | Rebecca Hasson, U-M associate professor of kinesiology, describes InPact at Home, a free, online program for kids that provides them with home fitness videos developed by physical education teachers in Michigan.
Marcus Cook will work as a hospitality volunteer, helping fans throughout the World Cup. UM News Service 2018-06-06 | Michigan students from the School of Kinesiology will work as interns at the biggest sporting event on the planet. Here's student Marcus Cook who will be working as a hospitality volunteer, helping fans throughout the #WorldCup. http://myumi.ch/aKnNE .
Road to Finca Irlanda UM News Service 2017-11-14 | This is the bumpy ride up the mountain to the organic coffee farm, Finca Irlanda, where University of Michigan researchers study biodiversity. Learn more: http://global.umich.edu/newsroom/coffee-killer/
Taking a Break from a Day of Research UM News Service 2015-09-29 | University of Michigan researchers working on an organic coffee farm in Chiapas, Mexico find ways to take a break from their work.Learn more: http://global.umich.edu/newsroom/coffee-killer/
Mexico- Larva Eating Rust UM News Service 2015-09-29 | This is a look under the microscope at a possible control agent of the coffee rust disease. Learn more: http://global.umich.edu/newsroom/coffee-killer/
Chiapas, Mexico- Azteca Ant Throwing Coffee Borer off Leaf UM News Service 2015-09-29 | Video shot by: Estelí Jiménez Soto of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Learn more: http://global.umich.edu/newsroom/coffee-killer/
Daily Rain at the University of Michigan Research Station in Chiapas, Mexico UM News Service 2015-09-29 | The rain comes in almost every day around 2pm on this organic coffee farm in Chiapas, Mexico. The rest of the afternoon the University of Michigan researchers input data collected and prepare for the next days research.Learn more: http://global.umich.edu/newsroom/coffee-killer/
Mexican Coffee Farm: Lunch Time UM News Service 2015-08-05 | After a long morning in the field, University of Michigan professors and graduate students gather to eat lunch - their main meal of the day. The researchers are studying biodiversity in a coffee-growing region in Mexico's southern Chiapas state, near the border with Guatemala. The faculty and students are affiliated with the School of Natural Resources and Environment as well as the department of ecology and evolutionary biology in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Follow the trip blog: http://eeblog.lsa.umich.edu/.Learn more: http://global.umich.edu/newsroom/coffee-killer/
Mexican Coffee Farm: Evening Discussions UM News Service 2015-08-05 | Zu Dienle Tan, a graduate student at the University of Michigan, gives a presentation to classmates and professors about her research in the summer of 2015 in a coffee-growing region of southern Mexico. The group was based in a farmhouse that serves as a research station on the Finca Irlanda organic coffee plantation in the mountains above Tapachula in the state of Chiapas. Tan is a master's student in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, while some of the other graduate students were in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Follow the trip blog and read a feature story about the research. Follow the trip blog: http://eeblog.lsa.umich.edu/. Read the story: http://myumi.ch/JmnZz
UROP in Detroit: Laura UM News Service 2015-07-21 | University of Michigan student spends the summer in Detroit assisting a nonprofit organization.
UROP in Detroit: Luke UM News Service 2015-07-21 | University of Michigan student spends the summer in Detroit assisting a nonprofit organization.
UROP in Detroit: Dominic UM News Service 2015-07-21 | University of Michigan student spends the summer in Detroit assisting a nonprofit organization.
UROP in Detroit: Danielle UM News Service 2015-07-21 | University of Michigan student spends the summer in Detroit assisting a nonprofit organization.
UROP in Detroit: Damaris UM News Service 2015-07-21 | University of Michigan student spends the summer in Detroit assisting a nonprofit organization.
Ruth Behar: Puentes hacia/desde Cuba: Levantemos el embargo emocional UM News Service 2015-06-10 | ...
Ruth Behar: Bridges To/From Cuba: Lifting the Emotional Embargo UM News Service 2015-06-10 | University of Michigan professor Ruth Behar explains the new blog she and presidential inaugural poet Richard Blanco have created.
Louisa Lim: University of Michigan Professor on Civil Liberties in China UM News Service 2015-06-09 | Lawyers and rights activists have been jailed. Journalists and their sources have faced intimidation, and some have been assaulted and threatened. In this video, Professor, Louisa Lim discusses the situation.
University of Michigan Santa Marta Project UM News Service 2015-06-02 | Brazilian teenager Ana Carolina visits the University of Michigan and gives an emotional talk to students in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, thanking them for working with her to improve her neighborhood. She lives in Santa Marta, a shantytown or "favela" community in São Leopoldo near the southern tip of Brazil. The U-M students spent two weeks in March 2015 doing fieldwork and collecting statistical data in the neighborhood. Read about the project at: myumi.ch/6QAwY
19th-Century African-American Photo Albums: Historic Selfies UM News Service 2015-05-29 | University of Michigan students uncovered the story of Arabella Chapman by researching two rare photo albums from the U-M William L. Clements Library collection. The portraits within allowed students to learn about the role of visual culture, especially photography, as a critical dimension of the everyday life and politics of black Americans at the end of the 19th century. Their research prompted the launch of a website, http:/www.arabellachapman.com, where they're hoping to crowd-source new information about Arabella and people yet to be identified in the albums. Learn More: http://myumi.ch/a0WBl
U M Library Discovers Memoir in New Orson Welles Acquisition UM News Service 2015-05-21 | See more on the story at: http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/22902-u-m-library-discovers-unpublished-memoir-within-new-orson-welles-acquisition
Michigans World Class: Campus of the Future UM News Service 2015-05-21 | Students in one U-M course were asked how they would reinvent higher education for future generations.
University of Michigan Students in Chile UM News Service 2015-05-19 | A group of students from the University of Michigan traveled to Chile in March 2015 to study the country's wine industry. The students came from the Ross School of Business, College of Engineering and the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. This video includes some of the highlights of their experience in Santiago and wine-growing regions outside the capital. Read the story and watch another video about the trip at: http://global.umich.edu/2015/03/studying-the-science-and-business-of-wine-in-chile/
The 50s in Your Ear UM News Service 2015-05-15 | In the mid-1950s, the staff of the University of Michigan's student yearbook, the Michiganensian, tried a gimmick that was, for that era, a spiffy innovation. They recorded events of the year not just in words and images but also in sound.The results are preserved in two long-play records at the Bentley Historical Library — one for 1953-54, the other for 1956-57 — titled “Michiganensian Presents: Memories in Sound.” Possibly there were others, but those two are all the Bentley has.This video showcases some of the more memorable samples: Michigan vs. Ohio State, Duke Ellington at J-Hop, and a zippy rendition of "I Want to Go Back to Michigan."
The History of the Armenian Genocide (Full Length Version) UM News Service 2015-04-17 | Ronald G. Suny, a professor of social and political history at the University of Michigan, has spent much of his career researching the Armenian genocide. Before the centenary of the event in April 2015, he discussed the genocide's history, Turkey's denial that it ever happened and his own Armenian family's experience. Suny has just published a book about the genocide, “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide." Read a Q&A with Suny on the Global Michigan website: http://global.umich.edu/2015/04/qa-armenian-genocide-they-can-live-in-the-desert/
The History of the Armenian Genocide UM News Service 2015-04-17 | Ronald G. Suny, a professor of social and political history at the University of Michigan, has spent much of his career researching the Armenian genocide. Before the centenary of the event in April 2015, he discussed the genocide's history, Turkey's denial that it ever happened and his own Armenian family's experience. Suny has just published a book about the genocide, “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide." Read a Q&A with Suny on the Global Michigan website: http://global.umich.edu/2015/04/qa-armenian-genocide-they-can-live-in-the-desert/
Michigans World Class: The Future of Health Care UM News Service 2015-04-14 | A new course at the University of Michigan brings 250+ students from five programs together to learn about the roles of various health professionals.
Agave Takedown UM News Service 2015-04-08 | The 80-year-old American agave plant that spent the summer of 2014 blooming for the first — and last — time in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens was cut down and removed Wednesday. The flower stalk grew to more than 28 feet and once it bloomed the parent plant died, but not before sending out hundreds of flower buds.Learn more: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/mbg/happening/agave2014.asp
That Brown Show 2015 UM News Service 2015-04-02 | Maize mirchi, the South Asian a capella group is one of the teams performing in That Brown Show, tomorrow 4/3 at Power Center at 7:00pm. It's organized by Michigan Sahana.
Marketing the Wines of Chile UM News Service 2015-03-27 | A group of students from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan spent their Spring break in Chile studying the wine industry and how they may help small family wineries export wine to the U.S. (Para transcripción en español vaya a captions y elija Spanish)Learn more: http://global.umich.edu/2015/03/studying-the-science-and-business-of-wine-in-chile/En español: http://espanol.umich.edu/noticias/comunicados-de-prensa/2015/03/26/estudiantes-um-descubren-la-cultura-vitivinicola-en-chile/
Forgotten Photos Provide Unique View of China UM News Service 2015-03-02 | Graduate student Joseph Ho has collected 1,500 photographs and three hours of film shot by American missionaries in China from the 1920s to the early 1950s - one of the country's most tumultuous periods. Ho, who is doing his doctoral dissertation on the material at the University of Michigan, discusses the historical significance of the pictures and movies. Learn more: http://myumi.ch/LrBzL
Ultra-small Block Ms UM News Service 2015-02-25 | What might be the world's smallest (unofficial) Michigan logos demonstrate a nano-manufacturing process that could lead to advanced drug delivery systems. University of Michigan engineering researchers developed the new process.
Michigan Public Policy Survey: Roads UM News Service 2015-02-23 | How bad are the roads? The University of Michigan surveyed top elected and appointed officials in Michigan's 1,856 units of government on a wide range of road related issues. Fewer than one in five local leaders labeled their roads in good condition. Learn More: http://myumi.ch/a8X9a
Fragments of the Great War: Pacifist with a Paintbrush UM News Service 2015-02-19 | World War I, the war that ushered in the modern era, spanned just four years. But for almost a century it has captivated the imagination of William Lewis, an emeritus professor and associate dean of the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.
Deal-Makers and Deal-Breakers in Online Dating UM News Service 2015-02-12 | University of Michigan research breaks new ground on how people make romantic choices by analyzing troves of data from a major online dating site. Learn more: http://ns.umich.edu/new/multimedia/videos/22684-mining-big-data-for-cupid-s-arrows
Art on Wheels: Half Bike, Half Car UM News Service 2015-01-26 | Graduate student Cameron Van Dyke of the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design discusses his uniquely designed pedal cars that provide a human-powered, low-energy form of hybrid transportation. (Spanish captions available). Learn more: http://myumi.ch/JDWnL
Power and Performance on Display at 2015 NAIAS UM News Service 2015-01-23 | University of Michigan's Bruce Belzowski talks about some of the powerful performance cars, as well as fuel-efficient vehicles, at this year's North American International Auto Show.
Michigans World Class: Michigan Makers UM News Service 2015-01-22 | U-M School of Information students learn to mentor and create programs that encourage young children to be makers.
Cityscape for testing driverless vehicles rises at U-M UM News Service 2015-01-13 | A 32-acre "mini-city" designed expressly for testing connected and automated vehicle systems, and other emerging 21st-century smart city technologies, is taking shape on the University of Michigan's North Campus.Read the full story at: http://bit.ly/1AMFrbY
What are E-Cigarettes?...and are They Safe? UM News Service 2014-12-16 | University of Michigan Director of the Tobacco Research Network and Lecturer with the U-M School of Public Health, Cliff Douglas explains what e-Cigarettes are, and the potential risks associated with using them. Read more: http://ns.umich.edu/new/multimedia/videos/22575-e-cigarettes-surpass-tobacco-cigarettes-among-teens
E-Cigarettes Surpass Regular Cigarettes Among Teens UM News Service 2014-12-16 | This is the first that a national study has shown that teen use of e-cigarettes has passed use of regular cigarettes. Read more: http://ns.umich.edu/new/multimedia/videos/22574-use-of-alcohol-cigarettes-number-of-illicit-drugs-declines-among-u-s-teens
Art on wheels: Celebrating the creativity of Pakistani trucks UM News Service 2014-11-25 | At a time when much of the news about Pakistan seems to involve drone attacks, bombings and jihadist groups, a University of Michigan professor is trying to change the conversation to the vibrant art and culture scene that exists in Pakistan. Read the full story at: http://ns.umich.edu/new/multimedia/slideshows/22521-art-on-wheels-celebrating-the-creativity-of-pakistani-trucks
Studying Brazils world-leading milk bank system UM News Service 2014-11-11 | A group of University of Michigan physicians and other health professionals traveled to Brazil to study the nation's world-leading network of milk banks, which collect breast milk from donors and provide it to babies in need. The delegation wanted to see if parts of the Brazil model could work in the U.S.
Tech Transfer making a difference UM News Service 2014-10-04 | University of Michigan Tech Transfer has worked with faculty across campus to bring innovations from University of Michigan to everyone.
Black Fridays of Yore UM News Service 2014-09-24 | Weirdly gruesome posters created for U-M's inter-class rush mingled scenes of mayhem and mirth at the turn of the 20th century.All images courtesy of U-M's Bentley Historical Library.Learn more at michigantoday.umich.edu
New ways of learning UM News Service 2014-08-11 | Universal themes and differences in their communities connect the students from University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor Michigan and Salokaya School of Nursing in Delhi, India
