• Fighting stage fright with VR

    The University of Michigan’s Piano Lab Pro uses virtual reality to help students decrease music performance anxiety, or MPA, as they create and repeat the live performance experience, gaining comfort with the space, the acoustics of the hall and the challenges of audience distraction.

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  • Michigan Arts Festival

    With over 300 student organizations, more than a dozen galleries and exhibition spaces, a packed performance schedule from the School of Music, Theatre & Dance and beyond, new exhibits at the U-M Museum of Art and other campus museums, there is no shortage of inspiration to be found. The month-long festival is a small snapshot of the endless arts opportunities open to the U-M community.

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  • Great Lakes legacy

    A University of Michigan Engineering alum cultivates craftsmanship and community for local and global impact. Ben Van Dam leads design and production of one-of-a-kind vessels that bring world-class craftspeople to Boyne City., supporting the local economy and spreading Michigan-made artisanship around the globe.

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  • Papyrus conservation

    An international cohort of conservation students recently attended the University of Michigan’s 2026 Papyrus Conservation Summer Seminar. Working alongside U-M conservators and papyrologists, participants preserved more than 150 papyrus fragments, including manuscripts that had not been opened, flattened or read in nearly 2,000 years.

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