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Four black 3D printed brain matrices standing vertically on a wooden table. Each matrix is a rectangle, and on the long side (the "top") has a divot with several small stripes for blades to slide through to cut the brain into slices.
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  • Boxin Zhang
3D Printed Brain Slicing Matrix Project
Brain slicing matrix for mouse brain experiments.
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A 3D printed rose. The petals of the rose are red, and the leaves underneath are green - the petals sit on top of the leaves.
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  • Jakob Gundersen
3D printed Rose Tea Light
3D printed Rose flower with a tea light base.
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The hem of a sweater being held up to the camera. The sweater is dark gray with a light gray stripe on top of the dark grey ribbed knit. Above the light gray stripe is an embroidered cutout of a red pikmin (a small bipedal video game character with a white flower on its head)
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  • Theo Spitler
Sewing Station - Sweater Mending with Pikmin
Mending a sweater using reused Pikmin embroidery in the hole.
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A chunky gray and dark-blue blanket being woven on a 3D printed loom set. The loom set is a long row of pegs, printed in pieces - some are lime green, and some are dark blue.
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  • Barbara M Stanny
Turning Clearance Yarn into Campus Creativity: A Blanket Saga in SBAR Format
3D Printing a loom for a blanket project.
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A 3D printed blue and purple earring holder. The holder is a flat, circular plate with scalloped edge (like a flower) with a grid of holes in the middle to place earring studs.
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  • Tasmine Clement
3D Printed Earring Holder
3D printed travel-sized earring holder.
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A white 3D printed figurine of Princess Leia from Star Wars. She is wearing the slave outfit (bikini and skirt) from the beginning of Return of the Jedi, with her hair in a bun. The statue is on a table in front of a blue carpet and a row of windows.
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  • Andrea Carolina Osteicoechea
3D Printed Star Wars Figurine
3D printed Star Wars figurine as a gift.
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Radio Free Asia Korean Service homepage
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  • Yunah Sung
Radio Free Asia Korean Service Finds a New Home at U-M Library
The University of Michigan Library welcomed a new distinctive collection: the Korean-language radio broadcasts of Radio Free Asia (RFA; 자유아시아방송), a news outlet focused on reaching listeners in North Korea. For any scholars interested in the studies of the Korean Peninsula, this collection offers crucial insights into North Korea’s society, politics, and culture.
Notes from Asia Library
Bearded and top-hatted Uncle Sam figure pointing at the viewer next to event title "The Price of Milk"
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  • Juli McLoone
The Price of Milk | Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
Please join the Special Collections Research Center and the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative at 5:00pm on Thursday, March 12th for a screening of episode 4 of the documentary series The Price of Milk: The Kids Are Not Alright, followed by a panel discussion with Oatly Global VP of Sustainability Erin Augustine and Food Studies scholar Margot Finn.
Beyond the Reading Room
Drawing of a woman on the cover eating a fork-full of vegetables
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  • Juli McLoone
Recipe of the Month: Baba Ghanouj (1981)
In 1978, Anna Thomas published a sequel to her first book entitled The Vegetarian Epicure. Book Two. This book went through numerous printings (JBLCA holds the 8th printing, issued in 1981). For this month’s recipe of the month, I decided to try Thomas' “baba ghanouj,” which she describes to those unfamiliar with it as “a salad of eggplant and sesame paste.” 
Beyond the Reading Room
A blue 3D printed rectangular tray, with a divider down the middle vertically.
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  • Edward Brown
3D Printed Game Piece Storage Tray
3D printed game tray for board game pieces.
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