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Building robots and a future in STEM
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.
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Elephants: Earth’s giant climate change canaries
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.
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A New Generation of Scientists
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.”
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Concussion care
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.
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Going abroad?
If so, register your international travel and enroll in U-M’s GeoBlue travel abroad health insurance, even for personal trips. Registering trips is simple and allows U-M to assist faculty, staff, and students in the event of a crisis necessitating medical care or even evacuation. Registration is required for U-M Related Travel.
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- Study outlines cost, energy savings of switching from fluorescent lamps to LEDs
- $9M grant to help train occupational health professionals
- Grandchild's stillbirth risk linked to grandma's weight
- Tracking undetectable space junk
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- Dec 10 The Nutcracker(ish)
- Dec 12 Making Healthy Environments a Legal Right in Michigan: Legislation or Green Amendment
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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. A sampling of images captured over the years is shown in the gallery below.
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