Roei Shlagman, an undergraduate in aerospace engineering, holds a heavily wrapped cubesat as he and other students in Associate Professor James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes make final preparations for launch from Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Cole Helsel, left, and Hunter Sagerer, both undergraduates in aerospace engineering, as they and three other teams prepare to launch one of four cubesats as part of AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Tim Galmiche, left to right, a masters student in space engineering, Rohan Chandratre, Rohan Madathil, both masters students in aerospace engineering, and Shun-Yu Yang, a masters student in space engineering, make last minute adjustments to their team cubesat before launch as part of James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.

After final adjustments Cutler and his students drove to Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis to launch the cubesats, which would then be carried in the stratosphere eastward to approximate just east of Tecumseh.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Autumn Tedrow, a senior business administration major with a moinor in finance and economics, is working with Keybank as a summer intern.

Chemistry major Andrea Miranda '13 at work in the lab.

Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, left, and Michael Tigner, an undergraduate in aerospace engineering, begin to unfold and inflate a balloon with helium to carry one of four cubesats into the stratosphere when they launch from the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022. Bergman is a maters student in aerospace engineering.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Autumn Tedrow, a senior business administration major with a moinor in finance and economics, is working with Keybank as a summer intern.

Cole Dorman, a PhD student in climate and space sciences and engineering, right, and others inflate a helium balloon, one of four, to carry cubesats designed by students in Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes into the stratosphere when they launch from the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

View of University of Michigan students launching balloons as part of James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes from Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Levi Hutmacher/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

View of University of Michigan students launching balloons as part of James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes from Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Levi Hutmacher/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Autumn Tedrow, a senior business administration major with a moinor in finance and economics, is working with Keybank as a summer intern.

Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor James Cutler, center, speaks with students as they unload helium tanks and prepare to launch four cubesats as part of AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

From left, Roei Shlagman, an undergraduate in aerospace engineering, Jiasheng Tang, a masters student in aerospace engineering, and Noah Eckert, an undergraduate in aerospace engineering, as they and three other teams prepare to launch four cubesats as part of AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Cole Helsel, left, and Hunter Sagerer, both undergraduates in aerospace engineering, as they and three other teams prepare to launch one of four cubesats as part of AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor James Cutler, right, speaks with students as they unload helium tanks and prepare to launch four cubesats as part of AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Will Moll, left to right, a masters student in aerospace engineering, Tim Galmiche, a masters student in space engineering, Rohan Madathil, a masters student in aerospace engineering, and Shun-Yu Yang, a masters student in space engineering, make last minute adjustments to their team cubesat before launch as part of James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.

After final adjustments Cutler and his students drove to Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis to launch the cubesats, which would then be carried in the stratosphere eastward to approximate just east of Tecumseh.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Rajiv Govindjee, center, a masters student in aerospace engineering, and others make last minute adjustments to their team cubesat before launch as part of James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.

After final adjustments Cutler and his students drove to Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis to launch the cubesats, which would then be carried in the stratosphere eastward to approximate just east of Tecumseh.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

View of University of Michigan students launching balloons as part of James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes from Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Levi Hutmacher/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Tim Galmiche, left and Shun-Yu Yang, both masters students in space engineering, make last minute adjustments to their team cubesat before launch as part of James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.

After final adjustments Cutler and his students drove to Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis to launch the cubesats, which would then be carried in the stratosphere eastward to approximate just east of Tecumseh.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Rajiv Govindjee, left, and Ashwin Anandakumar, both masters students in aerospace engineering, as they and three other teams prepare to launch four cubesats as part of AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

These were made as part of a unit study using Josephina (one of the American Girl dolls). The study included learning about New Mexico, Mexico, hispanic culture and arts, Native Americans who live in the SW U.S., Native American art and culture, cooking, music, deserts (animals, cacti), goats, clothing, and history. This was a very hands-on and fun unit.

Let loose and sculpt using fabric, wire and an exterior fabric hardener to create fun and funky birds who won’t be flying south any time soon! Spend the day with Rita Wildschut as she leads you through the creation of this whimsical addition to your garden or pond environment. Back by popular demand, this workshop is a delightful way to explore the creativity you didn’t know you had.

M • Jul 16 • 9am–4pm

A student holds a night snake (Hypsiglena torquata).

Bark Carving Creations – Wood Spirit Faces, a group of beginner carvers set out with hand tools and lovely pieces of bark to carve a wood spirit face in this full day workshop (July 2011) under the guidance of area artisan, Linda Shantz. Don't miss this year's 2 carving workshops: Celtic Love Spoons ( T • Jul 17 • 1–5pm) and Lighthouses (W • Jul 18 • 9am–4pm)!

This is one of many steps in making papyrus paper (part of an Egyptian unit study we did as part of homeschool).

Associate Professor James Cutler, left, speaks with Madeline Purvis, an undergraduate in aerospace engineering, during final preparations to launch four cubesats as part of AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.

The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.

Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

This is one step in a multi-week process for making papyrus paper. The girls are doing a unit study on Egypt after reading the Magic Treehouse Book #4 about Egypt.

Shehzeen Samarah Hussain '14 and teammates in the Arango Lab helped fabricate the first solar cells to be made at the College.

Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little meets with freshman students of Oswald and Self Halls during FYE's Hawkweek, to kickoff the Common Book initiative. Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" was selected for the 2015-16 school year.

KU Common Book is a campus-wide initiative to engage first-year students. A key component of Bold Aspirations, the KU strategic plan, is investing in first-year intellectual experiences. As part of this emphasis, KU Common Book will generate opportunities for shared intellectual experiences that invite analysis, foster critical thinking, and reflect the type of reasoned discourse expected at a university.

First-year students receive the common book at Orientation and are encouraged to read and discuss the book at activities and programs throughout the year. The Common Book was selected by a committee comprised of faculty, staff, and students from nominations generated by the KU campus. Although the program focuses on freshmen and transfer students, the steering committee invites participation from all students, as well as faculty and staff who wish to include the book in their classes and programs.