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Fighting stage fright with VR
Oct 12, 2026The University of Michigan’s Piano Lab Pro uses virtual reality to help students decrease music performance anxiety, or MPA, as they create and repeat the live performance experience, gaining comfort with the space, the acoustics of the hall and the challenges of audience distraction.
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Michigan Arts Festival
Oct 5, 2026With over 300 student organizations, more than a dozen galleries and exhibition spaces, a packed performance schedule from the School of Music, Theatre & Dance and beyond, new exhibits at the U-M Museum of Art and other campus museums, there is no shortage of inspiration to be found. The month-long festival is a small snapshot of the endless arts opportunities open to the U-M community.
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Great Lakes legacy
Sep 28, 2026A University of Michigan Engineering alum cultivates craftsmanship and community for local and global impact. Ben Van Dam leads design and production of one-of-a-kind vessels that bring world-class craftspeople to Boyne City., supporting the local economy and spreading Michigan-made artisanship around the globe.
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Papyrus conservation
Sep 21, 2026An international cohort of conservation students recently attended the University of Michigan’s 2026 Papyrus Conservation Summer Seminar. Working alongside U-M conservators and papyrologists, participants preserved more than 150 papyrus fragments, including manuscripts that had not been opened, flattened or read in nearly 2,000 years.
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Depth objects
Sep 14, 2026U-M artist and architecture professor Catie Newell designed glass “Depth objects” for a short tour through the Faculty Arts Ambassador Program, offering participants a chance to explore grief, care and life transitions through touch, conversation and art—transforming grief into something tangible.
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Intensifications of El Niño
Sep 7, 2026As an El Niño of historic proportions is taking shape in the tropical Pacific, a University of Michigan study has found that El Niño variability has become nearly 40% stronger in the last 40 years than in the preindustrial era.
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C. Cybele Raver named 17th president
Sep 1, 2026With a unanimous vote of the Board of Regents, C. Cybele Raver was appointed the 17th president of the University of Michigan. The vote took place during a special meeting of the board in University Hall.
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Welcome week
Aug 28, 2026The excitement in the air in Ann Arbor is palpable. U‑M students are back in town and ready to start the new school year. There are a variety of Welcome Week events happening across campus to help students get back into the swing of things. Go Blue! #WelcomeHome
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Most complete skeleton of 30 million-year-old dog
Aug 24, 2026U-M paleontologist Anne Kort has confirmed that it’s one of the most complete fossils of a pre-Ice Age dog found in North America, a canid called Mesocyon coryphaeus. In fact, the species, first named in 1879, had only been previously identified by single skulls.
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Cover crop project bridges farming and research
Aug 17, 2026What began as a doctoral project at the University of Michigan is now spreading like red clover across the Great Lakes region to help farmers improve their soil and prevent fertilizer from washing into waterways.
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Solar-powered pumps
Aug 10, 2026Researchers from the University of Michigan and the nonprofit ELICO Foundation built a solar-powered pumping system to supply water to about 3,000 pastoralist families in rural Tanzania, following two years of collaboration. The project expanded the local distribution network by about 10 miles.
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Running for shelter
Aug 3, 2026U-M alum Brendan LaFrenier ran 200 miles across Michigan in four days, from Lake St. Clair to Lake Michigan, raising more than $33,000 for homeless shelters across the state. With his friend and U-M alum Nick DelFranco, LaFrenier co-founded Endurance for Change, which combines endurance, film making, and community service.
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Knee exoskeletons for arthritis relief, mobility
Jul 27, 2026Building on the success of projects to boost strength by adding motors to conventional knee, hip and ankle braces, a University of Michigan team is exploring how well this approach could work for relieving knee pain from osteoarthritis.
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Ode to the aeronauts
Jul 20, 2026Up, Up, and Away: A History of Ballooning in America, invites visitors to journey into the remarkable history of ballooning—an era of daring invention, public spectacle, and new ways of seeing the world. This exhibit examines the history of balloon flight in the United States from Blanchard’s first ascension in 1793 to the early 20th century, when ballooning became part of popular culture.
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Community co-designed wave energy prototypes
Jul 13, 2026Researchers from U-M Engineering went to Beaver Island to demo prototype wave energy converters during the Island’s 11th annual sustainability fair. But this wasn’t a generic technology demonstration—the U-M team had designed their prototypes based on use cases envisioned by Beaver Island residents.
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Path to Medicine
Jul 6, 2026LSA is a major feeder to top medical schools around the country, thanks to a liberal arts and sciences education that offers rigor, flexibility, and human connection.
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Resilience for Great Lakes ecosystems, economies
Jun 29, 2026New research funded by the Michigan Sea Grant will address wild rice conservation, invasive mussel ecology and the ability of algal blooms to produce toxins in a changing environment.
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Science gets personal
Jun 22, 2026FamJam aims to support the teaching of engineering in middle school using standards-based and culturally relevant approaches. With guidance from experienced collaboration facilitators, the goal is to create a community-centered ready-to-implement set of science lessons by adapting a powerful standards-based curriculum.
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Silk made into strong plastic-like materials with 6G potential
Jun 15, 2026Silk threads can be fused into transparent, plastic-like materials that twist terahertz frequencies of light, according to research led by Imperial College London, University of Michigan Engineering and Tufts University. The findings could enable components of 6G networks to be made from upcycled silk.
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Defining Gravity
Jun 8, 2026From spacetime to the science of dance, from quantum mechanics to quarks, from wavelengths to watts—the popular series, Saturday Morning Physics, makes science accessible to viewers near and far.
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A new resource for mastering the wind
Jun 1, 2026The study offers a detailed characterization of how sails behave during a wide range of tacking motions and with an array of sail types. Its findings serve as both a framework for improved sail designs and a pathway for making today’s autonomous sailboats—vital in oceanographic research—more efficient and reliable when changing direction in unpredictable wind conditions.
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Studying bird flu in the air
May 25, 2026A new research project, backed by the U.S.D.A. and led by Herek Clack, a U-M associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, will aim to determine how long the virus that causes bird flu remains infectious in the air within livestock and poultry facilities and will explore if non-thermal plasma technology can be used to reduce the virus' infectivity in the air of these facilities.
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Mapping Michigan’s airborne microplastics
May 18, 2026Dr. Anne McNeil is leading a project called M4AM. The group, which includes researchers from statistics, chemistry and engineering, aims to create a map of where microplastics in the state’s atmosphere are concentrated, what produces them and where they travel, in hopes that Michiganders will be able to understand how microplastics pollution in the air may impact them.
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Three Generations of LSA
May 11, 2026The deep roots of one Michigan family: academic passions, on-campus meet-cutes, and a whole lot of football.
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1 million memories
May 2, 2026Rose, founder of the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy, sports analyst, and former U-M basketball and NBA player, delivered the keynote address during Saturday’s graduation ceremony. The event also included remarks by student speakers and U-M administrators and faculty, who repeatedly noted that the university conferred its 1 millionth degree over the weekend.
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