• Braiding heritage and education

    The Indigenous Education Youth Collective program, IEYC, is a research-practice partnership between the University of Michigan and Lake Superior State University, and the Anishinaabe youth and families in the Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan area.

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  • Visualizing concussion experience

    The Concussion Center at the U-M School of Kinesiology is using visual art to capture the experiences of concussion patients. Ypsilanti, Michigan-based artist Avery Williamson, along with a team of students from the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design, recently completed an expansive mural at the center after interviewing patients and visualizing their road to recovery from concussion.

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  • Unlocking ocean power

    Coastal communities are partnering with a multidisciplinary research team to determine the best way to harvest wave energy at Beaver Island, Michigan, and Nags Head, North Carolina. The project is led by the University of Michigan, supported with $3.6 million from the National Science Foundation.

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  • Warmed by science. Powered by love.

    Born a premature baby, Grace Hsia Haberl dedicated her undergraduate studies at Michigan Engineering to finding a solution to protecting premature infants from hypothermia. Along with fellow classmates, she developed a non-electric warming blanket and launched it under the start-up, Warmilu.

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  • Fifth- and sixth-generation Indigenous basket weavers

    “In Our Words: An Intergenerational Dialogue” features the works of contemporary artists Kelly Church (Potawatomi/​Odawa/​Ojibwe) and Cherish Parrish (Potawatomi/​Odawa). Their traditional basket weaving material — from black ash trees — is being attacked by an invasive species of beetle, the emerald ash borer, which kills the trees by eating the tissue under the bark.

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