Education & Society
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The beating heart of Cuba
For jazz percussionists, Cuba is the holy grail of influence. During a recent Spring Break, music students traveled south to find it.
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Freedom writer
In the midst of the civil rights movement, U-M historian Dwight Lowell Dumond published his anti-slavery masterwork. The backlash was ferocious.
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Notes from the 'opposition party'
Alumni journalists fight the beast that is ‘fake news’ and offer options to avoid counterfeit copy.
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Everybody walk the dinosaur
As experts prepare to move the Museum of Natural History, they reimagine the visitor experience.
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An uncommon education
University historians collaborate with Detroit Public Television to produce shortform documentary series about U-M’s legacy.
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U-M pioneers new walking robot
New bot is loosely modeled on the cassowary, a flightless bird with backward-facing knees.
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Power to the pixel
In 1988, while most of the digital technology we take for granted was unknown, a revolutionary software named Photoshop began to develop at U-M.
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All's fair … Or is it?
Have you ever: Forwarded photos taken by one friend to another? Watched a clip from a TV show on Facebook? Quoted a published work in a research paper?
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Fast track to first responder
U-M student volunteers cut to the chase in action-packed training program for Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service.