• 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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  • Seasonal Transitions and Climate Change

    From a historic, 20-year soil harvest assessing underground carbon storage to the start of a tracer study targeting nitrogen uptake by trees in the winter, fall research activity at the University of Michigan Biological Station is robust.

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  • Student veteran

    If there’s a defining theme for Fernando Bejar’s life, he says it’s “the American dream as an immigrant.” Bejar was born and raised in Bolivia for 15 years before immigrating to the U.S., settling in New Jersey. Seeking an opportunity to serve his new country, help others, and pursue educational benefits, he enlisted in the U.S. Army.

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