Featured Stories
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Sustainable Mushrooms
Apr 22, 2024U-M Sustainable Living Experience students are growing mushrooms on campus. This experience is giving the SLE students an understanding of not just sustainably grown foods, but of how food accessibility can be increased through mycology.
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U-M’s XR stage expands global education
Apr 15, 2024Imagine being a U-M student or a learner anywhere in the world, logging on to an online course. Instead of seeing a talking head delivering a lecture, you see your instructor walking through ancient Cairo, in an operating room in Tokyo, or on a construction site in Rome. U-M's Center for Academic Innovation, can transport learners anywhere or any time in the world.
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Vision 2034
Apr 8, 2024Our vision is to be the defining public university, boldly exemplified by our innovation and service to the common good. We will leverage our interdisciplinarity and excellence at scale to educate learners, advance society, and make groundbreaking discoveries to impact the greatest challenges facing humanity.
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Brilliant Detroit
Apr 1, 2024Brilliant Detroit creates 'kid success' by providing early childhood education, family support, and food with 18 neighborhood hubs in Detroit, which partners with 160 organizations. Brilliant Detroit CEO Cindy Eggleton co-founded the organization in 2016 with University of Michigan alums Jim Bellinson and Carolyn Bellinson.
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Art or infrastructure? Depends on the climate
Mar 25, 2024On a fall afternoon along Seattle’s Elliott Bay, Buster Simpson, MFA ’69, watched a woman photograph a child crawling on a public art installation he’d recently completed. It’s likely the woman and child had no idea Simpson’s “Migration Stage” serves a dual purpose: providing an area for creativity and play and protecting the bay’s seawall infrastructure.
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openVertebrate project
Mar 18, 2024Natural 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.
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Giving Blueday 2024: A decade of impact, driven by you
Mar 13, 2024Today 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!
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Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project
Mar 11, 2024The 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.
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Metal-free Magnets
Mar 4, 2024Michigan 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.
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The Campus that Never Was
Feb 26, 2024As 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.
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More dinosaurs headed to U-M Museum of Natural History
Feb 19, 2024The 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?
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Turning Passions into Classrooms
Feb 12, 2024University 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.
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‘Dolomite Problem’: 200-year-old geology mystery resolved
Feb 5, 2024To build mountains from dolomite, a common mineral, it must periodically dissolve. This counter-intuitive lesson could help make new defect-free semiconductors and more.
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The Writing Life
Jan 29, 2024Lillian 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?
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Blue PHOLEDs
Jan 22, 2024Lights 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.
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2024 MLK Symposium
Jan 14, 2024The 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.
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Hail to the Victors!
Jan 8, 2024Congratulations to the Michigan Football team on winning the National Championship! Go Blue!
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Legacy in land
Jan 7, 2024U-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.
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History Carved in Stoneware
Jan 1, 2024Enslaved 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.
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‘Tis the season
Dec 25, 2023The 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.
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Automated shuttle safety testing at Mcity
Dec 18, 2023Testing 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.
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Striking a ‘Crescendo’ in after-school arts programming
Dec 11, 2023Crescendo 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.
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Building robots and a future in STEM
Dec 4, 2023After 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.
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Elephants: Earth’s giant climate change canaries
Nov 27, 2023U-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.
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A New Generation of Scientists
Nov 20, 2023U-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.”
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