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(University of Michigan researchers found that 3-year-old children exposed to two or more hours of TV a day were nearly three times more likely to be overweight than children who either watched or were in a room with a TV on for fewer than two hours a day,.)

(With participation and attendance increasing since the first exhibit 12 years ago, the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is making connections between prisoners and the community, and de-constructing stereotypes about those incarcerated.)

(University of Michigan professor Enoch Brater talks about playwright Arthur Miller as the University hosts a grand opening of the Arthur Miller Theatre, the only one in the world named after Miller.)

(McDonald is a veteran newspaper correspondent who has done several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.)

(U-M psychology professor Oliver Schultheiss, who runs the Human Motivation and Affective Neuroscience Lab, talks about how hormones like testosterone impact human behavior. Schultheiss describes how to tell if you're "high testosterone" and the pluses and minuses.)

("Among school-aged children, obese children have a greater than twofold chance of having diabetes, compared with children of normal weight," Dr. Joyce Lee says. "The large number of children with diabetes in the U.S., and the potential for increasing numbers of children developing diabetes with the obesity epidemic, has serious implications for how these children will receive appropriate health care now and as they grow into adulthood.")

(Joanne Nesbitt chronicles her walk through one of U-M's most popular cultural attractions.)

(This interdisciplinary effort will result in a 15-year perspective study that will not only lend insight into Latin America, but also should be applicable to further the understanding of substance use among all youths in the United States.)

(Policy blueprint, Michigan at a Climate Crossroads Strategies for Guiding the State in a Carbon-Constrained World, presented to Michigan legislators on May 23 presents compelling case that time is at hand to reform state regulations.)

(John Burkhardt, is a U-M professor of higher education and director of the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good. He also serves as a special assistant to the provost for University engagement and organized "Challenges and Opportunities: Conversations about immigration and higher education. He talks about where the nation is on this major issue being debated in Congress.)