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M-Air First Flight
M-Air is a new outdoor fly lab for testing autonomous aerial vehicles at the University of Michigan. It lets researchers and students safely push algorithms and equipment to their limits. M-Air is a netted, four-story complex situated next to the site where the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building will open in late 2019.
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Making Science Visible
The Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design offers a course created and taught by Professor Brad Smith called Making Science Visible that is an introduction to science illustration – and so much more. Scores of students look forward to enrolling once they have completed prerequisite classes that prepare them to draw and design visual narratives.
Learn more about this collaboration with the U-M Museum of Zoology
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Professor Ford
In the spring of 1977, hundreds of U-M students encountered a new faculty member: Gerald R. Ford, 38th president of the United States and adjunct professor of political science.
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An Integrated Life
History alumnus Lyman T. Johnson was the grandson of four former slaves. Born and educated in the Jim Crow South, he integrated the University of Kentucky in 1949—five years before Brown v. Board of Education.
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- Approximately two hundred sixty degree-programs
- U-M Faculty include Pulitzer Prize and Guggenheim Winners, National Academy of Science Members, Macarthur Fellows, and Emmy Winners.
- 2.8 million square feet of lab space for research and teaching
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Carpe Diem
All Michigan, all the time
There’s always something amazing happening at Michigan. Whether it’s on campus or around the world, our students, faculty, staff and alumni are out seizing the day as shown in the slideshow below.
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Get Connected
This week in history: Dances at the Michigan Union, Ellen DeGeneres on campus, and the first female Golden Apple Award winner.
Photo of the week: Day or night, the marquee looks right.
📸: fzara97 on Instagram
On April 5th, 1968, people made their way to Hill Auditorium for a memorial service for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who had been assassinated the day before.
You can listen to a recording of the event here: http://myumi.ch/6QGkW #TBT