Life Sciences at Michigan has several online features on the flu: a history of the fight against flu (including the origin of flu vaccines at U-M), the dangers of regular old flu (not just the current avian threat), a discussion of bird and pig flu viruses and a colorful rogues gallery of flu viruses up close and personal.

The Museum of Art recreates one of the seminal 20th century's literary-artistic collaborations, the plight of Alabama sharecroppers as depicted by photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee. (Exhibit ends Dec. 18.) Caption: Allie Mae Burroughs, 1936. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, U. of Texas at Austin.

Hopwood Award-winning undergraduate poet Erin Moore '06 grew up in Ann Arbor. She is majoring in Latin. The Hopwood Program will celebrate its 75th year in 2006.

The University of Michigan and Google, Inc. have announced that the first large collection of the University’s public domain books is available now online through Google Print (http://print.google.com/). This is the first step in making 7 million U-M volumes available online. "As educators we are inspired by the possibility of sharing these important works with people around the globe" said President Mary Sue Coleman.

Prof. Piotr Michalowski of U-M’s Department of Near Eastern Studies, has a night job as principal woodwind for the improvisation group the Sublingual Ensemble. as the Cicada Breathes is the group’s third CD. See his website for more information.

The National Center for Institutional Diversity will unite leaders from education, corporations, the military, and the cultural and artistic fields to address theoretical and practical issues related to diversity, says President Mary Sue Coleman.

You don't have to be a football fan or mathematician to understand the new ranking system devised by two U-M physicists.They based their system on the mathematics of networks and say it tends to back computer selections rather than those of human rankers.

The animals called sea lilies resemble plants so much, scientists assumed they stayed rooted in place. But videos now reveal that they can crawl. The sea lily in this photo from 1,200 feet deep off of Grand Bahama Island can be seen in a video.

See creeping crinoid video

Go with the FLOW (Fisheries Learning on the Web)—15 lessons designed primarily for K-12 students, about Great Lakes aquatic science with activities about fisheries and stewardship.