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A research team in the University of Michigan College of Engineering succeeded in creating a tarnish-proof silver film whose properties allow for various uses such as high-tech screens. The team’s paper, published last Monday, details the film’s versatility.

As the silver film is ultra-thin, it can be used for displays such the touch screens on cell phones. The film is also transparent, which is why it can be directly applied to solar cells or organic LED displays — increasing efficiencies as the film allows more light to enter solar cells and to leave the LEDs.

Christner's production lifted No. 20 Michigan past the Chippewas, 2-0, in a midweek pitcher’s duel en route to the Wolverines’ ninth-straight victory.

Editor’s note: Amy Chavasse is a professor of dance in the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Her teaching interests include contemporary dance technique, improvisation, composition and social issues on dance. She is also the artistic director of ChavasseDance&Performance.

Restlessness and curiosity have always been incentives for my practice as a dance maker, performer, improviser and educator. It’s looking like it’s high time to let righteous indignation find its way back into my choreographic considerations.

For more than a century, the University of Michigan’s logo — the block ‘M’ — has been an Ann Arbor staple, emblazoned on everything from the Big House scoreboard to the graduation-party cakes of high-school seniors.

Despite slight modifications over the years, the simple, maize-colored ‘M’ set on a blue field has symbolized the University’s historically dominant Athletic Department for more than 100 years. And in recent years, the famous ‘M’ has been branded to represent the entire institution.