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- Aiswarya Saravanan
The Initiative Team through M-HEAL details their process of creating portable, inexpensive, and safe bassinets that are able to incubate newborns. Through feedback from medical personnel and library staff, they are able to improve future versions of the bassinet and its associated baby carrier to combat neonatal hypothermia.

- Elizabeth Shalanda Whitmore
- Amira Said
From events to social media outreach, the Student Library Engagement Ambassadors highlight underutilized library resources to the U-M community. Elizabeth and Amira, two recent graduates from the University of Michigan, recount the past year as experienced Ambassadors.
- Valeria Serratos
The 19th Annual Multicultural Greek Exhibition (MGX) was founded by the sisters of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority. MGX combats negative stigmas of Greek Life by illustrating that Greeks are involved in tradition, community service, philanthropy, and diversity and unity.

- Rachel Marina Ward
On April 2nd, 2025, ten delegates from the University of Michigan's Society of Women Engineers (SWE) chapter traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in SWE’s annual Congressional Outreach Day. Through representing the voices of countless women and marginalized individuals who are often excluded from governmental conversations, U-M SWE members endorsed a targeted list of federal legislative priorities and funding requests to ensure the success of marginalized groups working in STEM.

- Krystel Anderson
Krystel Anderson, a Seed Library Engagement Fellow, illustrates her experience in community-facing work, which included providing seeds to the community and accessible knowledge of plants and gardens.

- Leah Juliette Gouin
Students hung out with furry friends, made puppy-themed buttons, and picked up cool swag, like posters, sticky notes, and candy!

- Cecilia Valentina Ledezma Herrera
Students enjoyed an evening of board and video games in the Computer and Video Game Archive. Pop into the CVGA to play, and tell them the Ambassadors sent you!

- Elizabeth Shalanda Whitmore
Reflections on Café Shapiro 2025 from the 2024-2025 U-M Library Engagement Ambassador Team.

- Alyssa Simone Wakefield
Library Student Ambassadors invited students to blindly choose their next read.

- Thomas Gala-Garza
Students enjoyed (non-alcoholic) beverages as they created masterpieces on mini canvases at this artistic gathering.