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Welcome Back
Aug 22, 2022The 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.
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EV battery testing
Aug 15, 2022Testing the longevity of new electric vehicle battery designs could be four times faster with a streamlined approach, researchers at U-M have shown. Their optimization framework could drastically reduce the cost of assessing how battery configurations will perform over the long haul.
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College confidant
Aug 8, 2022Through the Michigan College Advising Corps a diverse group of recent U-M graduates works full-time as college advisers in under-served high schools throughout the state of Michigan to help students navigate every aspect of the college application process and identify their best fit among post-secondary options.
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New drug delivery
Aug 1, 2022A new study from U-M describes one of the first entirely new drug delivery microencapsulation approaches in decades. Microencapsulation in biodegradable polymers allows drugs such as peptide therapeutics to be released over time in the body.
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Detroit’s Riverwalk
Jul 25, 2022The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy was created in 2003 with the mission of developing access on the Detroit River. The entire vision is 5.5 miles of riverfront from the Ambassador Bridge to Gabriel Richard Park just east of the Belle Isle Bridge, and includes the construction of a continuous RiverWalk along with plazas, pavilions and green spaces.
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Northern Michigan
Jul 18, 2022From the Big House to the Mackinac Bridge, the impact of University of Michigan research, faculty, staff, alumni, and students spans far beyond the borders of our three campuses. Learn more about U-M’s Up North Impact and the Board of Regents July 21 meeting in St. Ignace.
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Santa J. Ono named 15th president
Jul 13, 2022With a unanimous vote of the Board of Regents, Santa J. Ono was appointed the 15th president of the University of Michigan. The vote took place during a special meeting of the board in University Hall.
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A bold experiment
Jul 11, 2022When UM-Dearborn alum Heyam Alcodray took over as Fordson High School’s principal, she came in with a vision that dared to ask the very basic, but also very bold question, “What's the point of a high school education anyway?”
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Crowdsourcing a time machine
Jul 4, 2022Housed at the University of Michigan William L. Clements Library, the David V. Tinder real-photo postcard collection offers a vivid look back into the everyday experience of 19th- and 20th-century Michiganders. More than 60,000 photos strong, the collection captures nearly every aspect of life in every county in the state, from mining and agriculture to domestic life, leisure, and portraiture.
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‘unipolar’ laser pulses
Jun 27, 2022A laser pulse that sidesteps the inherent symmetry of light waves could manipulate quantum information, potentially bringing us closer to room temperature quantum computing.
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Soccer in Motown
Jun 20, 2022The Detroit City Football Club, founded by U-M alum Alex Wright and four partners in 2011, is bringing communities together with its professional team and youth leagues. At the games, fans also give back to the broader community by donating clothes, health supplies and other basic needs to be distributed to homeless and other at-risk populations.
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Mastodon tusk chemical analysis
Jun 13, 2022Around 13,200 years ago, a roving male mastodon died in what today is northeast Indiana, nearly 100 miles from his home territory. The study also shows that the Buesching bull may have spent time exploring central and southern Michigan, which seems fitting for a creature whose full-size fiberglass-cast skeleton is on display at the U-M Museum of Natural History in Ann Arbor.
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Graphene-hBN breakthrough
Jun 6, 2022In a discovery that could speed research into next-generation electronics and LED devices, a University of Michigan research team has developed the first reliable, scalable method for growing single layers of hexagonal boron nitride on graphene.
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Math games
May 30, 2022Working closely with teachers and schools in Taylor, MI, and New York City, NY, High 5s, a math enrichment program developed at the U-M Youth Policy Lab, is hoping to close the achievement gap between low-income children and their peers. The program is based on studies showing that students with strong early math skills do better in both math and reading in later elementary school.
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Ancient grains
May 23, 2022The Kelsey Museum at the University of Michigan contains ancient grains and other food material from Karanis, Egypt, originally excavated by U-M in the 1920s. Working with universities from Belgium, U-M will study the material and reassess the notion that the ancient diet was predominantly malnourished.
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Smarter 3D printing
May 16, 20223D printers may soon get better at producing intricate metal and plastic parts, thanks to new software developed at the University of Michigan that reduces harmful heat buildup in laser powder bed fusion printers.
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Urban agriculture
May 10, 2022Gardens on Detroit’s Lower Eastside, which has one of the city’s highest vacancy levels, play an important role in reducing neighborhood blight and have the potential to provide other significant benefits to residents in the future, according to the new study.
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Hail to the comeback graduates!
May 7, 2022Anthony Fauci encouraged U-M’s Comeback Commencement crowd to challenge untruths and push back on the “egregious distortion of reality” that permeates social media and “so-called news organizations.”
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Hail! Class of 2022
Apr 30, 2022Congratulations to all of the U-M students who earned their degrees this spring. Students received their diplomas during Spring Commencement at Michigan Stadium on April 30. Other graduation celebrations are being held across campus through May 1. #MGoGrad
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The Dignity of Man
Apr 25, 2022With three U-M degrees, Dr. Paul Cornely devoted his life to championing equal health care for all, leading to the desegregation of America’s hospitals.
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K-12 Sustainability Fellowship
Apr 18, 2022The Dow Innovation Teacher Fellowship is a program created for K-12 teachers of all disciplines interested in teaching sustainability issues. The fellowship is the first program of the Andrew N. Liveris Institute, a partnership between the University of Michigan School of Education’s Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research; the Dow Company Foundation; and Delta College.
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A professor’s war for peace
Apr 11, 2022Still just a boy in 1921, the renowned mathematical psychologist Anatol Rapoport fled war-torn Ukraine on a pair of ice skates. At U-M, he would become an expert in the science of human conflict, contributing the ‘Tit for Tat’ strategy to the field of game theory.
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Return to beauty
Apr 4, 2022The MorningSide neighborhood is a 1.5-square mile community located on the eastside of Detroit. A plan called “Stabilizing MorningSide” provides tools and resources to build upon the assets of the community to strengthen its housing market and make it a neighborhood of choice again.
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Avian secret
Mar 28, 2022While it had been assumed that unstable gliding was the key to agility in bird flight, a collaboration between aerospace engineers at the University of Michigan and biologists at the University of British Columbia revealed that stability plays a role. The discovery could lead to the design of more agile aircraft, specifically uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs).
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Fit as a family
Mar 21, 2022When childhood obesity began to rise during the pandemic, U-M researcher Rebecca Hasson and her team adapted their classroom activity program, InPACT, so students could do it at home. Videos are designed to acclimate kids and their families to at-home fitness and feature 20-minute cardio routines developed and recorded at home by Michigan physical education teachers.
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