Featured Stories
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A World Without Ice
Dec 9, 2019This multisensory experience created by U-M SMTD professor Stephen Rush and SMTD and Residential College professor Michael Gould with visual artist Marion Tränkle and climate scientist Henry Pollack, is now on view at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum through Jan. 5, 2020.
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What humans want in an automated car
Dec 2, 2019U-M researchers set out to examine how a person’s perception of safety in an autonomous vehicle was influenced by the degree to which the vehicle and the rider seemed to share certain “personality” traits.
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DESI opens its 5,000 eyes
Nov 25, 2019A new instrument mounted atop a telescope in Arizona aimed its robotic array of 5,000 fiber-optic “eyes” at the night sky to capture the first images showing its unique view of galaxy light.
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Music Time in Africa
Nov 18, 2019In September 2014, two U-M professors received a phone call that would set them on a race to save more than a half century of African music. In response, UMSI’s Paul Conway and LSA’s Kelly Askew teamed up to create a one-of-a-kind resource for scholars and music enthusiasts around the globe.
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Mind and body
Nov 11, 2019Before coming to the University of Michigan, Joseph Jackowski had always been fascinated with the human mind. After exiting the Marine Corps, Joseph decided to pursue this interest in the human mind and investigate what about our minds and ourselves is truly influencing these behaviors
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Lighthouse Brass Quintet
Nov 4, 2019Inspired by the beauty and lore of lighthouses throughout the state—as well as their sheer number—University of Michigan assistant professor of music William Lucas launched the Michigan Lighthouse Landmark Legacy project, an artistic collaboration aimed at raising awareness and supporting preservation of the state’s beloved, historic buildings.
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Detroit Center for Innovation
Oct 30, 2019A 190,000-square-foot academic building operated by U-M will be part of a new 14-acre Detroit Center for Innovation in downtown Detroit. The building, which will be financially backed by donors, including Stephen M. Ross and Dan Gilbert, will provide space for students pursuing advanced degrees in high-tech innovation industries.
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College ready
Oct 21, 2019The middle and high school students who are part of the University of Michigan’s Wolverine Pathways program have the smarts to get to college. They have the desire. They see themselves as college students. But seeing the path to get there and stay there isn’t always clear. Wolverine Pathways formed just over three years ago with the goal of showing them the way.
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Debate 2020
Oct 11, 2019U-M will host a Presidential Debate in Crisler Center on Oct. 15, 2020. The Commission on Presidential Debates selected U-M for the second of a series of three debates next year. Educational and outreach activities will take place throughout campus. U-M President Mark Schlissel said: “Public service and civic engagement are at the core of our great university and its history.”
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Future reality
Oct 7, 2019Extended Reality (XR)—augmented, virtual and mixed reality—is changing learning, research and patient experiences. Much more to come under provost-funded initiative led by the U-M Center for Academic Innovation.
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West African camera survey
Sep 30, 2019When U-M wildlife ecologist Nyeema Harris started her multiyear camera survey of West African wildlife, she sought to understand interactions between mammals and people in protected areas such as national parks.
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ZEUS: Most powerful laser in the US
Sep 23, 2019The United States is upgrading its laser capabilities with ZEUS, a new three-petawatt system to be built at the University of Michigan. Three petawatts is equal to three quadrillion watts, or a 3 followed by 15 zeros.
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Sound Support
Sep 16, 2019Learning to live in a hearing world and with a cochlear implant takes adjustment—for the patient, the patient’s family and the people in the patient’s life. It’s the mission of the University of Michigan’s Sound Support program, an arm of U-M’s Cochlear Implant Program, to help all involved manage the changes and thrive.
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Measuring motion sickness in driverless cars
Sep 9, 2019Up to one-third of Americans experience motion sickness, according to the National Institutes of Health. In a car, the condition tends to flare when you’re a passenger rather than a driver, and when you’re engaged in something other than looking out the window—reading or using a handheld device, for example.
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Welcome back
Aug 29, 2019The 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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Making a Difference Around the World
Aug 26, 2019Many U-M students spent their summer actively and passionately engaged in communities nearby and across the globe. Besides creating unforgettable memories, students made a difference in the lives of people through service and research.
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Teaching the teachers
Aug 19, 2019TeachingWorks was founded seven years ago at U-M to improve the quality of beginning teaching in the U.S. and to build resources for addressing educational inequities. Based on extensive research and development at the School of Education, TeachingWorks supports the development of skillful teaching through direct work on teaching practice with pre-service and in-service teachers.
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Theater for everyone
Aug 12, 2019A surprising collaboration between a U-M architect and an MSU playwright will offer a new sensory theater experience for children with autism.
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Maker trend could spur aging brains
Aug 5, 2019Makerspaces have the potential to jumpstart long-term care facility residents’ brains—to get them thinking and learning new things again, whether or not they participate by making something.
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Monarch butterflies
Jul 29, 2019Weeks before warming temperatures and longer days signal to the monarchs that it’s time to mate and begin spring’s northward migration, an internal timer goes off like an alarm clock to rouse the insects, telling them it’s time to end diapause and prepare for the critical upcoming events.
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Research aims to bring AI processing down from the cloud
Jul 22, 2019The first programmable memristor computer—not just a memristor array operated through an external computer—has been developed at the University of Michigan. It could lead to the processing of artificial intelligence directly on small, energy-constrained devices such as smartphones and sensors.
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Kirigami can spin terahertz rays
Jul 15, 2019With a light-spinning device inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, U‑M researchers scan the internal structure of plant and animal tissue without harmful X-rays. The team hopes their work will open new dimensions in medical imaging, encrypted communications and cosmology.
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Future physicians
Jul 8, 2019Established in 2012, the Doctors of Tomorrow program is focused on diversifying the future of health care by exposing underrepresented minority students to careers in medicine, as well as providing them with foundational skills to pursue a career in health sciences.
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150 Years at U Hospital
Jul 1, 2019What began as 20 beds in a converted house on campus after the Civil War has grown into a vast enterprise of care, with centers, clinics, institutes, laboratories, helicopters, a library and more.
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Outreach efforts offer access
Jun 24, 2019When she was in high school, LSA junior and first-generation college student Stephanie Camarena received valuable research experience at U-M as part of D-RISE, one of the many educational outreach initiatives faculty and staff engage in to help students across the state.
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