University of Michigan

Featured Stories

• Breaking cost barriers, solving global business problems

  The Vienna Spring Break program aimed to provide 13 Michigan Ross undergraduate and master’s students with hands-on experience. Rather than having the students work on hypothetical case studies, WU Wien assistant professor Eva Marckhgott—who taught the class—collaborated with a real company facing real business challenges.

  Learn more about this program

• Dicamba drift

  A University of Michigan study examined the effects of the herbicide, called dicamba, and found that plants exposed to dicamba drift had a lowered abundance of pollinators, and that pollinator visits to flowers were reduced for some weeds, but not others.

  Learn more about this study

• hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engines

  Hydrogen has the potential to power internal combustion engines, including on-road and off-road vehicles and equipment, and large marine engines. Despite its promise to reduce climate change emissions such as carbon dioxide and harmful pollutants, hydrogen has largely remained underutilized in the United States.

  Learn more about this research

• Twisted Edison

  Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers at the University of Michigan have shown. The finding adds nuance to fundamental physics while offering a new avenue for robotic vision systems and other applications for light that traces out a helix in space.

  Learn more about this technology