Research
With expenditures in excess of $1 billion, research is central to U-M’s mission and permeates all 19 schools and colleges. U-M is a strong advocate of promoting collaboration and interdisciplinary research initiatives that involve faculty and students from across campus.

U-M researchers have demonstrated organic solar cells that can achieve 15 percent efficiency.
Research Attention
Below are 25 research outputs that have received attention in the news, social media and other digital sources in the past week ranging from “mainstream” sources to citations. This work from University of Michigan researchers represents a tiny fraction of the more than 263,000 research outputs produced by our academic community.
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Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial
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Hot L1s account for the bulk of retrotransposition in the human population
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LINE-1 Retrotransposition Activity in Human Genomes
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Readmission and Death After Initial Hospital Discharge Among Patients With COVID-19 in a Large Multihospital System
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Genetic Variants of SARS-CoV-2—What Do They Mean?
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Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement
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Genome diversity in Ukraine
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Esophageal motility disorders on high‐resolution manometry: Chicago classification version 4.0 ©
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Space Weather: Terrestrial Perspective
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Real-Time, Direct Classification of Nanopore Signals with SquiggleNet
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Sampling from Disentangled Representations of Single-Cell Data Using Generative Adversarial Networks
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Childhood self-control forecasts the pace of midlife aging and preparedness for old age
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Menstruation: science and society
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Distribution of Airborne Influenza Virus and Respiratory Syncytial Virus in an Urgent Care Medical Clinic
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Progression of cannabis withdrawal symptoms in people using medical cannabis for chronic pain
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Bronchopleural Fistula in the Mechanically Ventilated Patient: A Concise Review
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Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response
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Opinion: Use science to stop sexual harassment in higher education
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Association Between Early Treatment With Tocilizumab and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19
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Dementia prevention, intervention, and care
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Complexities of Viral Mutation Rates
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Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited
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Classical simulation of quantum many-body systems with a tree tensor network
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Colorectal Cancer Screening in Ghana: Physicians’ Practices and Perceived Barriers
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Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders