November 4 – Extended Reality for Everybody

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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: –

Recent Event 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

North Campus Deans’ MLK Spirit Awards

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In honor of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., today we celebrate not only his leadership in advancing civil rights, but also the members of the North Campus community who work to achieve social and racial justice.   For many of our community members this is lifelong work. For

Melissa Coppola: “Lights in the Sky”

Students playing piano in front of big screen showing the Milky Way Galaxy
Melissa Coppola’s doctoral thesis “Lights in Sky”, a multimedia concert inspired by the cosmos, premiered Sunday, July 11, 2021, 2:30 PM at the Stamps Auditorium, Penny Stamps School of Art and Design on the U-M Ann Arbor Campus “In March 2020, COVID-19 forced me to cancel a space-inspired performance at

MDP Hammond Organ Project

Picture of an Organ Instrument
Students on the ArtsEngine Hammond Organ Project will create a media-integrative 21st century expressive instrument by re-imagining and re-designing a vintage analog musical instrument – a Hammond M3 organ. This project is in collaboration with the Duderstadt Center and the Multidisciplinary Design Program. Meet the team and see the work