Featured Stories
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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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Forest-management experiment at the Biological Station
Jun 17, 2019In an aspen-dominated hardwood forest at the northern tip of the state’s Lower Peninsula, U-M’s scientists are testing ways to make the region's forests more resilient to climate change. About 12,000 mature trees--mostly aspen--are being cut on 77 acres at the U-M Biological Station, a 10,000-acre research and teaching facility just south of the Mackinac Bridge, near the town of Pellston.
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A Vision for Detroit’s arts and cultural district
Jun 10, 2019Three U-M faculty members are part of a team that won an international design competition that will unite 12 cultural and educational institutions located in Detroit’s Midtown and change the way visitors and Detroiters experience the area.
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A quicker eye for robotics
Jun 3, 2019In a step toward home-helper robots that can quickly navigate unpredictable and disordered spaces, U-M researchers have developed an algorithm that lets machines perceive their environments orders of magnitude faster than similar previous approaches.
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Made at Michigan
May 27, 2019From seeking to change lives by integrating 3D-printing into the prosthetic manufacturing process, to helping stroke survivors communicate through email, to working to improve health and sanitation in Pakistan, U-M students are always inventing and innovating—in the state, across the nation, and around the globe.
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Historical letters in U-M zoology museum
May 20, 2019Clark Schmutz spent more than 100 hours last semester reading and digitally scanning hundreds of letters in the correspondence files of the U-M Museum of Zoology’s mammal collections, which date back to the 1800s. These letters contain intriguing stories that illustrate the links between museum collections and conservation.
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Wasps may be smarter than we thought
May 13, 2019A new U-M study shows that paper wasps are capable of behavior that resembles logical reasoning. It's the first time transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, has been observed in an insect or any non-vertebrate animal. The study was conducted by evolutionary biologist Elizabeth Tibbetts and several undergraduates.
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Hail! Class of 2019
May 4, 2019Congratulations to all of the U-M students who earned their degrees this spring. Students received their diplomas during Spring Commencement at Michigan Stadium on May 4. Other graduation celebrations are being held across campus through May 10. #MGoGrad
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“Orion” Returns
Apr 29, 2019After a yearlong hiatus, an iconic work of public art—along with the artist who created it—returned to the University of Michigan’s central campus last week. The sculptor, Mark di Suvero, will receive an honorary degree during the spring commencement ceremony.
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Close Up With Communities
Apr 22, 2019As many Michigan communities — like Greenwood and Chandler Townships — face important decisions regarding their future in wind energy, they are using unbiased information provided by U-M’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) to get the answers they need.
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Milestone in Movement
Apr 15, 2019From Hartland to Sturgis, Grand Rapids to Gaylord, children born with Down syndrome are walking three to six months earlier, thanks to U-M research that discovered just minutes a day on a tot-sized treadmill leads to the crucial life milestone.
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Old Bones. New Home.
Apr 8, 2019After migrating to its new home, the U-M Museum of Natural History will reopen on April 14. Embedded among the labs in the new Biological Sciences Building, the museum doesn't just preserve the past; it also shows off the latest in scientific research with interactive exhibits, new programming spaces, and a state-of-the-art Planetarium & Dome Theater!
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Embracing Flint
Apr 1, 2019Residents, scientists, politicians—they all have a voice in José Casas’ new play, “Flint,” which will debut at U-M April 4-7 and 11-14 . Presented as a series of character monologues, the play was inspired by the victims of the Flint water crisis.
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‘Air traffic control’ for driverless cars
Mar 25, 2019Combining human and artificial intelligence in autonomous vehicles could push driverless cars more quickly toward wide-scale adoption. That’s the goal of a new project that relies on a technique called instantaneous crowdsourcing to provide a cost-effective, real-time remote backup for onboard autonomous systems without the need for a human to be physically in the driver’s seat.
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Unexpected connections
Mar 18, 2019U-M graduate student John Traylor knew the work he was doing in Puerto Rico to shore up communications infrastructure some nine months after Hurricane Maria was important, but it wasn’t until the project was finished that he fully understood the impact. Traylor realized he could combine his interest in technology with a desire to help underserved populations.
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A ‘decathlon’ for antibiotics
Mar 11, 2019The environments where bacteria thrive in our bodies are very different from those in which they’re tested in the lab, and that can be a problem. Sriram Chandrasekaran, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is using advanced computer simulations to study how different environments affect antibiotic performance.
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