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A 3d printed black laptop part on a wooden table. The part is a long rectangular "corner", where one edge is flat on the table and one edge is pointing up, with a screw hole at one end.
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  • Tobias Thrien
3D Printed Laptop Part
3D printed replacement part for a personal laptop.
Lab Notes
Picture of ten researchers in front of a gas flare
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  • Joanna Thielen
Reducing Methane Emissions from Oil Flares: Interview with Dr. Jenna Stolzman
In this interview, Dr. Jenna Stolzman, a recent graduate from the Mechanical Engineering PhD program describes their research and why they decided to share his data set entitled “Dataset for: Effects of crosswind and shroud geometry on performance of low-flow, non-assisted flares,” in Deep Blue Data.
Bits and Pieces
Picture of a bright green tree seedling sprouting from the forest floor in Colombia
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  • Joanna Thielen
Studying Tropical Dry Forests: An Interview with Dr. Maria Natalia Umana
In this interview, Dr. María Natalia Umaña describes her research and why she decided to share her data set entitled "Dataset of wood and leaf traits of tropical dry forests seedlings and adults" in Deep Blue Data.
Bits and Pieces
A pink, 3D printed tube holder on a black lab desk. The holder has multiple sized holes for different tubes, and there are many test tubes in a variety of sizes, many with clear liquids, standing in the rack. There is a green toy frog sitting next to the rack on the table.
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  • Samantha Wheeler
3D Printed Multi-Size Tube Rack
3D printed multi-size tube holder for lab work.
Lab Notes
A black, tall 3D printed bucket placed on a wooden table. At the base of the bucket is the words "Iron Lung", and the top of the bucket is made to look like a fish's mouth with sharp, needle-like teeth.
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  • Xavier P Curtis
3D printed Iron Lung Bucket
A 3d printed popcorn bucket for a horror movie release.
Lab Notes
A multicolored 3D printed flexible starfish toy, held by an adult (white) hand in front of a dark green background. The toy is sea green in the middle, where it has a smiley face, spreading out towards the arms/edges it turns a light blue, and the edges of the arms are a muted, metallic red.
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  • Hudson Michael Cooper
3D Printed Flexi-Starfish
3D printed flexible starfish fidget toy.
Lab Notes
A white 3d printed mechanical yarn winder. There are three main gears on a rectangular base - the lowest gear has a handle for the user to spin up and down, which rotates the middle gear which connects to the gear on top of the mechanism, which has a tall rod sticking up from the middle to collect wound yarn.
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  • Annika Sze Long Chan
3D Printed Yarn Winder
Gear-based yarn winder to wind yarn from hanks into cakes.
Lab Notes
A 9-page plywood booklet standing up and spread out in a glass display case. The pictures in the pages are detailed using laser engraving, and then painted over using bright, heavy coats of paint. The story involved many small, cartoon-like animals in a restaurant.
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  • Mya Anne Kim
Laser-cut Animal Restaurant Book
Laser-cut and painted plywood booklet for an art class final project.
Lab Notes
Blue and green mottled book cover with the title in black letters
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  • Juli McLoone
Recipe of the Month: Gingerbread Cake (1922)
The Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive holds more than 2,400 community cookbooks from across the United States, ranging in date from 1871 to 2021. This month’s blog post features two gingerbread cake recipes from The Cook Book of the Woman’s Club in Franklin, New Hampshire, published in 1922.
Beyond the Reading Room
lions and dragon in combat, configured like an ouroboros, surrounded by lines of persian poetry
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  • Evyn Kropf
Invisible gifts, strings attached: an investigation into a Qajar fingernail album
This post is by Remy Djavaherian (BA in Middle East Studies / Persian Visual Culture, University of Michigan, 2025), drawn from his work with an album from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.
Beyond the Reading Room