Video: A fun and hectic race through the campus and world of U-M Engineering.

Video: With its mix of classic architecture and light, open space, the Law School’s Robert B. Aikens Commons is a gathering spot, a study cove and a place for fortuitous encounters between students and faculty.

From Ghana to Michigan, a teacher and student meet again.

The program will allow West Coast professionals to earn an MBA while still pursuing a full career.

For the first time, the chemical “fingerprints” of the element mercury can directly link environmental pollution to a specific coal-burning power plant. “We see a specific, distinct signature to the mercury that’s downwind of the power plant, and we can clearly conclude that mercury from that power plant is being deposited locally,” said U-M researcher Joel Blum.

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In December, U-M president Mary Sue Coleman called for Obama’s leadership in restoring the United States’ higher education system.

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Once again, our intrepid photographers spend 24 hours documenting the Ann Arbor campus.

The physicists directly observed, for the first time, light particles that flicker in and out of existence in the vacuum of space. They witnessed the long-predicted quantum mechanical phenomenon known as the dynamical Casimir effect. “One of the profound consequences of quantum mechanics is that we know that something can come from nothing,” said U-M’s Franco Nori.

More than 3,000 gallons of Huron River water were trucked to the U-M campus recently to create 150 mini-Hurons that are used to study how environmental changes affect freshwater habitats like rivers and streams.