November 12, 5pm to 6:15pm – Virtual Student Venture Showcase (CFE)

CFE StudentVenture Showcase Graphic
An evening of promising student projects and ventures looking to highlight their ideas and recruit new members.  Sponsored by The Center for Entrepreneurship. Twelve hand-selected projects and ventures will have 3 minutes to present their ideas and answer audience questions. This is a must attend event for those looking to network with other student entrepreneurs or to join

November 17: 3:30pm to 5pm – Designing Augmented Reality for Collaborative Learning

two students using AR headsets
Virtual Event sponsored by the XR Initiative. Lessons from Designing Augmented Reality for Collaborative Learning: Iulian Radu, PhD; Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Iulian Radu will discuss the intersection of immersive design and educational innovation, focusing on aspects of AR/VR collaborative learning, makerspaces, embodied cognition, and immersive software /

SEDS Space Art Competition

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Updated November 8, 2021. Works by the winners and all participants of the recent Space Arts Competition are now viewable online. The 2021 Space Art Competition was held from October 4th to October 20th of 2021. We had 35 submissions from students across the University of Michigan. The winning pieces

Videos Online – Book Arts Symposium

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(This virtual event took place on October 26 and 27, 2021). Presented by AAEL Book Arts Studio. Update from Kyle Clark. Last week the Book Arts Studio of the University of Michigan Library hosted the first University of Michigan Book Arts Symposium (on the 26th and 27th of October). This

Extended Reality for Everybody

graphic of the XR initiative logo
Virtual Event – November 4, 2021 at 11 a.m. Featured Faculty and Staff: Michael Nebeling, Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering, and Jeremy Nelson, Director, XR Initiative, Center for Academic Innovation. Attendees can expect to learn: –

Video now Online from October 20 – Kent Bye (“Voices of VR Podcast“) on XR for Higher Education

a slide from the presentation by Kent Bye "Experiential Design Affordances, Production Challenges, & Ethical Considerations"
This virtual event took place on October 20, 2021. The full video recording is now available via YouTube: “XR for Higher Education: Experiential Design Affordances, Production Challenges, & Ethical Considerations” with Kent Bye. Presenter and podcaster Kent Bye (“Voices of VR Podcast“) discusses what’s happening at the frontiers of experiential

Telling the Story of the Duderstadt Center in 2021

DC Telling the Story presentation
October 11, 2021 A special presentation by graduate students of Architecture on how they interpret the uses and purpose of the Duderstadt Center today, using the original vision for the building and its subsequent history as design criteria. (Note: This presentation took place on Monday, October 11th. This post will