Image Caption Miles Hionis, Maddie Vassalo, and Rory Hunt  Iphis and Ianthe is a short film that places the Greek myth of the same name in a more contemporary framework. The original myth of Iphis and Ianthe tells the story of an impoverished couple in ancient Crete who is forced to give up their daughter due to their inability to afford her future dowry price. However, on the evening before the delivery of her daughter, Telethusa prays to the goddess Isis for a solution. Isis gives her word that she will have a daughter but the next day, Telethusa gives birth to a daughter. She h ..read more

Image Caption Team PACT stands for “Preventive and Accessible Cervical Cancer Testing” and is an M-HEAL project team.  Team PACT stands for “Preventive and Accessible Cervical Cancer Testing” and is an M-HEAL project team. We formed in the Fall of 2021. Team PACT is partnered with Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana to develop a method for cervical cancer screening that is effective, non-invasive, and cost-efficient. Our device accomplishes this by collecting urine to be screened for high-risk HPV strains. Our mission is to design a cervical cancer screening urine collection device ..read more

Happy Birthday Stefan is an Pinteresque comedy short film following Stefan, an early 20s pre-med student. After a long day, Stefan comes home to find his family and friends have thrown a surprise party for him. The only problem is it’s not his birthday, and he’s never met any of these people in his life. This work, while standing alone as solely a chaotically psychedelic milieu, further serves as a repurposed trenchant political allegory on the current crisis of democratic backsliding and populist rhetoric in the United States. Happy Birthday Stefan allows viewers to contemplate the danger of ..read more

Spotlight on food history posters prepared by students enrolled in the Food Literacy for All (Winter 2024), a community-academic partnership course hosted by the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Systems Initiative ..read more

Image Caption Still shots from the movies "Stop Making Sense," "The Brother from Another Planet," and "Choose Me." Join us next Thursday, 18 April between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event ..read more

Asia Library Technical Services colleagues share their reflections on CEAL 2024 annual conference ..read more

Paper seedling planter pots created using 3d printed molds. These will be used for the Library’s Earth Day workshop planting seeds from the new Seed Library ..read more

The findings from a qualitative study on users of open access (OA) books reveal a wide range of needs and impacts. The data comes from two collections: one of OA books published by Lever Press (https://www.leverpress.org/) and the other of backlist books turned OA by the Big Ten Open Books project (https://bigtenopenbooks.org/). While the samples are small, the findings highlight the importance of qualitative approaches to capturing the variety of reader and, more broadly, user experiences ..read more

CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) Film Series presents a mini-film festival showcasing documentaries about China through the lens of European and Chinese directors ..read more

Hobby build of a display stand for a heavy metal hilt replica lightsaber from Star Wars ..read more