Featured Stories
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Blindfolded Rubik’s Cube world champion
The Rubik’s Cube. Many of us grew up finding the colorful 3×3 block to be an infuriating, and largely impossible, puzzle of frustration. But for one University of Michigan student, the cube opened doors to international travel, a Guinness World Records entry and multiple world championship titles.
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Visit The Plastic Bag Store
Brooklyn-based artist Robin Frohardt, uses single-use plastics, organically harvested from streets and garbage dumps, stocks store shelves with thousands of original grocery items meticulously sculpted by hand and artfully repurposed to re-create a 6,000-square-foot supermarket.
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2023 MLK Symposium
Around the theme of “The (R)evolution of MLK,” the keynote memorial lecture of the 2023 MLK Symposium will feature a panel discussion with Aletha Maybank, a physician and chief health equity officer and senior vice president for the American Medical Association, Edward Buckles, a film director and producer, and Jalen Rose, philanthropist and former U-M and NBA basketball star.
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Recycling previously unrecyclable plastic
PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most produced plastics in the United States and the third highest by volume in the world. It also has a zero percent recycling rate in the United States.
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News
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- Brain health, concussions and sports: Is there a long-term connection?
- Black History Month discussion: The role of the arts in the #BlackLivesMatter movement
- 319-million-year-old fish preserves the earliest fossilized brain of a backboned animal
- Technique pioneered at U-M could improve outcomes for cancer, neurological conditions
- 17 U-M faculty members named 2022 AAAS Fellows
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Public Engagement
- The Conversation: The EV transition isn't just about cars—the broader goal should be access to clean mobility for everyone
- Collaborative project to help improve coastal community resilience in Michigan, Wisconsin
- Stevenson, Cortina receive 2022 public engagement awards
- Michigan Minds: Illuminating and advancing the U-M Arts Initiative
- U-M startup BlueConduit joins White House partnership to find, remove lead pipes across US
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In The News
- New York Times US hiring surges with January gain of 517,000 jobs
- U.S. News & World Report Pregnant women in rural America often lack health insurance, upping risks
- Inside Higher Ed How student loan forgiveness could win at the Supreme Court
- Great Lakes Echo Gardening with a whole community could reduce violent crimes in neighborhoods, study says
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Happening @ Michigan
Events
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- Feb 8 A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni
- Feb 10 Housing Instability, Housing and Neighborhood Design, and Healthcare
- Feb 10 February International Coffee Hour
- Mar 10 UMix
- Feb 6 Portraits of Feminism in Japan
- Feb 8 The Queer World Conversations
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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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