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Looking for a course related to game studies for the Fall term? We'll list several of them here. You can find out more about studying games at U-M on our video game studies research guide.
The June display of Undergraduate Library books in the Shapiro Lobby highlights memoirs by LGBTQ+ authors. Celebrate Pride month by exploring the diverse array of stories presented through these selections.
Unlike most other large East Asia libraries in North America, the University of Michigan’s started its collection with materials related to Japanese rather than Chinese Studies. In October 1950, the library made a significant addition to its newly formed collection by purchasing nearly 20,000 volumes from the Kamada Library in Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture.
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Design Lab Intern Aaron Chow describes a video he created using his homebuilt, motorized board, a smartphone, and a DJI Osmo gimbal.
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Design Lab Intern Gloria Chun talks about her cookie-decorating Community Night project.
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Student Developer Daniel Schorin reflects on his participation in the creation of an online Python course with Academic Innovation.
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Design Lab Student Developer Daniel Schorin reflects on AI and its potential consequences for humanity.
How did prominent east coast poets like Allen Ginsberg, Ted Berrigan, and Anne Waldman end up contributing their work to The Alternative Press, a small press based in Michigan? It all started with John Sinclair.
In this caper novel and satire on the financial world, banker Verity Banks comes up with a plan to steal a billion dollars from the bank's electronic transfers to show her corrupt bosses how easy it is. Her mentor, Zoltan Tor, makes a bet with her, that he can steal a billion dollars before she does, without using a computer. But Verity's bosses have a scheme of their own. Will she defeat them? And can she and Tor deny their feelings for each other? Although first published in 1992, the book anticipates situations that led to the financial crisis of 2008.