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Charging electric vehicles 5x faster
Apr 14, 2025A stabilizing coating on an electrode, combined with microscale channels, helps solve the trade-off between range and charging speed, even in cold temperatures.
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Breaking cost barriers, solving global business problems
Apr 7, 2025The 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.
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Dicamba drift
Mar 31, 2025A 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.
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hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engines
Mar 24, 2025Hydrogen 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.
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Twisted Edison
Mar 17, 2025Bright, 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.
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Civic Librarian Project
Mar 10, 2025Library professionals have long been community problem-solvers. The Civic Librarian Project, created by faculty at the University of Michigan School of Information, builds on this tradition by equipping public librarians with the tools and resources to address civic challenges using 21st century technology.
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Looking to Kenya’s Lake Victoria
Mar 3, 2025To try to understand how harmful algal blooms might evolve in Lake Erie in a warming climate, University of Michigan scientists helped conduct a survey of cyanobacteria in a gulf of Kenya’s Lake Victoria.
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U-M astronomy will lead its first satellite mission
Feb 24, 2025The first space mission led by the University of Michigan Department of Astronomy is scheduled to launch in 2029. The mission is called STARI—STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry—and will showcase the viability of a new technique for studying exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system.
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Celebrating a milestone CT scan
Feb 17, 2025For seven years, a CT scanner has been whirring away nearly around the clock, tucked inside of a lab at the University of Michigan Research Museums Center. Now, the U-M MicroCT Scanning Laboratory has recently completed its 10,000th scan: a 3D scan of a wolverine skull, collected in British Columbia in 1948.
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Thought-controlled virtual quadcopter
Feb 10, 2025A brain-computer interface, surgically placed in a research participant with tetraplegia, paralysis in all four limbs, provided an unprecedented level of control over a virtual quadcopter—just by thinking about moving their unresponsive fingers.
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Lightwave-connected chips
Feb 3, 2025A new chip-connection system could help topple the “memory wall,” which limits computing speed and the growth of AI models today, by transferring data along reconfigurable pathways of light rather than electrical wires. The technology will be developed by a U-M led project funded by a $2M grant from the National Science Foundation’s Future of Semiconductors program.
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New water purification technology
Jan 27, 2025Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water. A study describing the new technology has been published in Nature Water by engineers at the University of Michigan and Rice University.
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Battery-like computer memory keeps working above 1000°F
Jan 20, 2025Computer memory could one day withstand the blazing temperatures in fusion reactors, jet engines, geothermal wells and sweltering planets using a new solid-state memory device developed by a team of engineers led by the University of Michigan.
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Warming temperatures impact immune performance of wild monkeys
Jan 13, 2025U-M anthropology doctoral student Jordan Lucore examined how the immune systems of wild monkeys in Costa Rica were impacted by temperature. The immune performance of wild capuchin monkeys declines when the animals experience higher temperatures, and younger monkeys seem to be particularly vulnerable to heat, according to a University of Michigan study.
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Not so simple machines
Jan 6, 2025It’s easy to think that machine learning is a completely digital phenomenon. But the first machines were analog and now, a small but growing body of research is showing that mechanical systems are capable of learning, too. The U-M team of Shuaifeng Li and Xiaoming Mao devised an algorithm that provides a mathematical framework for how learning works in lattices called mechanical neural networks.
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Save the Endangered Species, Save the Humans
Dec 30, 2024Two LSA-led research teams have set out to protect frogs, bats, and bees in innovative ways—to preserve their species, the planet, and even our own lives.
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‘Tis the season
Dec 23, 2024The University of Michigan classrooms may be empty, but the arts experiences on campus remain available for a dose of culture, a place to keep warm, and an excuse to venture out of the house during holiday break
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Braiding heritage and education
Dec 16, 2024The 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
Dec 9, 2024The 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
Dec 2, 2024Coastal 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.
Nov 25, 2024Born 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
Nov 18, 2024From 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
Nov 11, 2024If 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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Using the arts and ‘awe’ to guide public policy
Nov 4, 2024In a unique pairing between the U-M Ford School of Public Policy and U-M Museum of Art, students are learning how to develop human-centered experiences to guide public policy. This approach takes a step back from a traditional emphasis on economic growth and focuses on policies that prioritize human relationships, dignity and sustainability.
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Harvest time
Oct 28, 2024Phoenix Community Farm was founded in 2018 by Beth DeVries, a U-M alum who was working as a nurse practitioner in Midland. She realized that many people were not able to afford fresh fruits and vegetables. Knowing how much good health relies on good food, she decided to start a community garden.
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