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A hand showing off a wooden ring on the ring finger. The hand is white, palm facing up, and the ring has a V design to articulate the wood.
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  • Dakota Allen Schwark
Plywood Lattice Flexure Ring
Made a latticed plywood ring.
Lab Notes
undyed canvas straitjacket on a half body mannequin
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  • Katie Marie Jones
Rare BOO👻ks and other Spooky Selections from Special Collections
Join us this Thursday, October 16th, between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
Beyond the Reading Room
Cover of Excavations by Kate Myers
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  • Vicki J Kondelik
Excavations by Kate Myers
Excavations is a novel by Kate Myers about four women working at an archaeological site in Greece, which was supposed to have been the home of the ancient Olympic Games before they moved to Olympia. The women all have very different personalities, and at first, they don’t get along, with two of them actively disliking each other, but when they find an artifact that might change history, they must work together against the egotistical, male chauvinist professor who oversees the dig. It is a highly entertaining novel which, according to rumor, is being made into a TV series.
Lost in the Stacks
A set of gray 3D printed parts on a white napkin standing on a gray table. On the napkin are two tall cylinders, and one has a small piping end on the top. Additionally, there are four small tubes laying sideways on the end of the napkin.
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  • Alexander Thompson
Resin Flow Chamber for Research Project
A flow-through chamber for a research project. The chamber stores resin and has additional connections for tubing.
Lab Notes
Library Student Ambassadors Roe Halbert and Grace Tai smiling and holding squirrel postcards.
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  • Rory Halbert
Postcard Writing
The library Student Ambassadors hosted the annual Postcard Writing event right outside the Shapiro Undergraduate Library on Friday, September 26th from 2-5 PM.
Student Stories
A yellow 3d printed prototype of a transducer unit holder supported by silver metal rods. The prototype has a square stand, which connects to a tall U shape, with a horizontal circle on top with 6 sleeves for the metal rods. Throughout the yellow plastic is one row of small holes to place transducer units.
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  • Jose Eduardo Freire
3d Printed Prototype to CNC Assembly
A 3D printed prototype for a radiation-monitoring CNC assembled project.
Lab Notes
A blue 3D printed model of a sphere "wearing" a set of VR glasses across its middle. The sphere is on a blue 3D printed stand. The photo of the model was taken outside on a concrete ledge, so in the background can be seen a grass park, a blue trash can, pavement, and students talking.
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  • Isla Rowan McCubbin-Green
3d Printed Logo for Student Org
A 3D printed model and stand of a UMich student org logo.
Lab Notes
A black 3D Printed cover fully covering an AC control panel on a beige wall.
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  • Leo Serbinov
3D Printed AC Sliding Cover
I made a design for a 3D printed sliding cover for the AC/Temperature controls in my room.
Lab Notes
An image grid of study space results with filter groups down the left side to limit results
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  • Emma Brown
Helping Students Find a Study Space through Iterative Research and Design
Find a Study Space is a brand new feature on the library website that launched in August 2025, improving our existing study space content and providing students with a new way to explore library study spaces. Learn about our research and design process and some of the key findings we discovered that informed the final product.
Tiny Studies
Black book cover with the title The Drinking Man's Diet Cookbook in yellow and red
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  • Juli McLoone
Recipe of the Month: Avocado Toast (1967)
The Drinking Man’s Diet Cookbook by photographer Robert Cameron, offered a high-protein & hight-fat fad diet, essentially premised on the idea that eating dense calories offered satiation, while allowing space for carbohydrates in wine or cocktails. In the chapter on bread, Cameron suggests this recipe for Avocado Toast.
Beyond the Reading Room