Featured Stories

  • openVertebrate project

    Mar 18, 2024

    Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of open Vertebrate (oVert), a five-year collaborative project among 18 institutions to create 3D reconstructions of vertebrate specimens and make them freely available online.

    Learn more about the project
  • Giving Blueday 2024: A decade of impact, driven by you

    Mar 13, 2024

    Today is Giving Blueday! Let’s make a difference for Michigan. Since 2014, our U-M community has joined together on this day to support scholarships, research, programs, student organizations, university initiatives, and more. Whether it’s your 10th Giving Blueday or your first, make your gift now to help shape the next 10 years!

    Give today
  • Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project

    Mar 11, 2024

    The Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project (DNEP) is a program that brings together small businesses with University of Michigan students, faculty and staff to solve business owners’ legal, financial, marketing, operational, and design challenges.

    Learn more about this project
  • Metal-free Magnets

    Mar 4, 2024

    Michigan Engineering researchers are looking to use magnetism to guide soft robots and for medical implants and devices. They developed a non-metallic 'squishy' magnet that is light enough to add to soft robotic components and powerful enough to guide using magnetic fields.

    Learn more about this research
  • The Campus that Never Was

    Feb 26, 2024

    As the University of Michigan creates a blueprint for the physical campus of 2050, a look back to 1838 reveals how a brilliant architect designed a "truly magnificent" setting for the young institution. It was never built.

    Read about The Campus That Never Was
  • More dinosaurs headed to U-M Museum of Natural History

    Feb 19, 2024

    The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History is hosting a special exhibit on recent developments in dinosaur research. What were living, breathing dinosaurs really like? Just how big were they and how did they behave?

    Learn about this special exhibit
  • Turning Passions into Classrooms

    Feb 12, 2024

    University of Michigan's M-ARC program offers a solution to the growing teacher shortage in Michigan, providing accessible teaching certifications. Two M-ARC graduates tell their stories of transformation into the teaching world.

    Learn more about M-ARC
  • ‘Dolomite Problem’: 200-year-old geology mystery resolved

    Feb 5, 2024

    To build mountains from dolomite, a common mineral, it must periodically dissolve. This counter-intuitive lesson could help make new defect-free semiconductors and more.

    Learn more about this research
  • The Writing Life

    Jan 29, 2024

    Lillian Li, Gerardo Sámano Córdova and Darrel Alejandro Holnes are three U-M alumni who have found harmony between the writing life and day jobs. How do they do it?

    Learn more about these three writers
  • Blue PHOLEDs

    Jan 22, 2024

    Lights could soon use the full color suite of perfectly efficient organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, that last tens of thousands of hours, thanks to an innovation from physicists and engineers at the University of Michigan.

    Learn more about this innovation
  • 2024 MLK Symposium

    Jan 14, 2024

    The theme of the 2024 MLK Symposium is “Transforming the Jangling Discords of Our Nation into a Beautiful Symphony.” Recalling a line from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech, the statement encapsulates a profound vision of unity, peace and reconciliation in the face of discord and division.

    Learn more about the 2024 Symposium events
  • Hail to the Victors!

    Jan 8, 2024

    Congratulations to the Michigan Football team on winning the National Championship! Go Blue!

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  • Legacy in land

    Jan 7, 2024

    U-M alum Susan Morley LaCroix is helping Michigan families preserve and protect their land through her work as the Legacy Land Conservancy's land protection director. The conservancy protects land by obtaining public and private funding to create easements and public preserves that permanently protect private land.

    Learn more about the conservancy
  • History Carved in Stoneware

    Jan 1, 2024

    Enslaved Black potters created stoneware that today is being recognized as great art. Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina is a landmark exhibition of more than 60 objects representing the work of African American potters in the decades surrounding the Civil War.

    Learn more about this exhibition
  • ‘Tis the season

    Dec 25, 2023

    The University of Michigan and the city of Ann Arbor always have something to see, hear or visit. If you find yourself in the area during the holidays, enjoy one of the many exhibitions and events taking place.

    Learn about winter arts happenings
  • Automated shuttle safety testing at Mcity

    Dec 18, 2023

    Testing of a new automated shuttle is underway at the University of Michigan’s Mcity Test Facility to ensure the technology is ready to safely serve older adults and people with disabilities in the city of Detroit.

    Learn more about Mcity
  • Striking a ‘Crescendo’ in after-school arts programming

    Dec 11, 2023

    Crescendo Detroit, a non-profit organization founded by U-M Alum Damien Crutcher, has offered youth programs centered on instrumental music and dance since 2013. It teaches literacy and life skills, while providing homework support, and daily meals and snacks in the Dexter-Davison neighborhood.

    Learn more about Crescendo Detroit
  • Building robots and a future in STEM

    Dec 4, 2023

    After excelling in careers at Microsoft, Amazon and Meta, U-M alum and renowned video game engineer Leon Pryor (BS EE 1997) co-founded The Motor City Alliance, a 501c3 that works with over 70 Metro Detroit elementary and middle school teams annually to help them compete and win national robotics competitions.

    Read the story
  • Elephants: Earth’s giant climate change canaries

    Nov 27, 2023

    U-M paleontologist Bill Sanders has devoted his 40-year research career to tracking 60 million years of Afro-Arabian proboscidean—elephants and their ordinal relatives—evolution. In a recent project, he has traced the earliest signs of proboscideans in the fossil record, up until our modern elephants.

    Learn more about this research
  • A New Generation of Scientists

    Nov 20, 2023

    U-M alum and UT professor Kate Biberdorf, aka “Kate the Chemist,” sets fire to stereotypes. “Once I started learning chemistry, I could find the answers to all my questions somehow. I look around and everything I see has chemistry in it.”

    Learn how “Kate the Chemist” got her start
  • Concussion care

    Nov 13, 2023

    The University of Michigan Concussion Center has partnered with the Michigan High School Athletics Association to ensure that every coach, parent and athlete knows how to properly prevent and treat concussions. This effort currently reaches more than 750 high schools across the state of Michigan.

    Learn more about the center
  • Student veteran

    Nov 6, 2023

    When Olubukola Akinbami was evaluating colleges, she sought an option that had benefits like a good program for veterans, a solid presence of veterans on campus, and cognitive science – her preferred area of study – available as a major. The University of Michigan checked these boxes.

    Learn more about student veterans
  • Hiss-toric first

    Oct 30, 2023

    The U-M Museum of Zoology recently acquired tens of thousands of scientifically priceless reptile and amphibian specimens, including roughly 30,000 snakes preserved in alcohol-filled glass jars. The newly acquired reptiles and amphibians boost the university’s collection of those animals to roughly half a million specimens, including some 70,000 snakes.

    Learn more about this collection
  • Tumor-destroying sound waves

    Oct 23, 2023

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of sound waves to break down tumors—a technique called histotripsy—in humans for liver treatment. Pioneered at the University of Michigan, histotripsy offers a promising alternative to cancer treatments such as surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, which often have significant side effects.

    Learn more about this treatment
  • ‘Astrum’ solar car

    Oct 16, 2023

    With a name inspired by the Latin phrase “ad astra,” which means “to the stars,” the University of Michigan Solar Car Team is scheduled to race in this year’s Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, a biannual, 1,800-mile race from Darwin on Australia’s northern coast to Adelaide on the country’s southern coast. The race begins Oct. 22.

    Learn more about the World Solar Challenge