Featured Stories
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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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Alternative spring break
Mar 4, 2019The classrooms are empty, but U-M students are still learning, engaging and serving during spring break this week. Hundreds are opting to immerse themselves in communities throughout the world, recharging from their busy school schedules and making a positive impact.
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Connected wipers could prevent flooding
Feb 25, 2019Utilizing a test fleet in the city of Ann Arbor, engineers tracked when wipers were being used and matched it with video from onboard cameras to document rainfall. They found that tracking windshield wiper activity can provide faster, more accurate rainfall data than radar and rain gauge systems we currently have in place.
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U-M is top public university for Fulbrights
Feb 18, 2019U-M students received 26 Fulbright grants for the 2018-19 academic year—the most of any public university in the nation for the 14th year in a row. This year, their interests range from researching social and economic transformations in China to studying ethnographic study of reproductive health care professionals in Burkina Faso.
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Labs in a box
Feb 11, 2019Students in an advanced biology class at Benzie Central High School had lots of potential but very few tools and resources. So a former Benzie student, who now attends grad school at U-M, and her professor found a way to share their lab and expertise with them.
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Art in the Age of the Internet
Feb 4, 2019A new exhibition at the U-M Museum of art examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art. “Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today” presents more than 40 works across a variety of media, and is on view until April 7.
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Building robots and a better future in Detroit
Jan 28, 2019More than 2,800 Detroit-area high school students have been helped by the Michigan Engineering Zone, or MEZ, since the University of Michigan opened it in 2010. At the center, students explore their interests and grow their abilities in science, technology, engineering and math.
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2019 MLK SYMPOSIUM
Jan 21, 2019With the theme “Unravel,” the 2019 MLK Symposium features dozens of events that call us to continue the work of the civil rights movement, which sought to remove the threads of segregation and inequality from the tapestry of American life.
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3D printing 100 times faster with light
Jan 14, 2019Rather than building up plastic filaments layer by layer, a new approach to 3D printing lifts complex shapes from a vat of liquid at up to 100 times faster than conventional 3D printing processes, U-M researchers have shown.
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Healthy Schools
Jan 7, 2019Among the many things that years of teaching elementary school students has taught Cesar Reyes, is that kids sit too much during school and should move more. So when Reyes, a teacher at Detroit’s Munger Elementary-Middle School, was asked to try an in-class exercise program developed at U-M, he was all for it.
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Art of Winter Break
Dec 24, 2018Winter break is in full swing at U-M—and so are the arts! Check out a new exhibition, catch a performance or drop in for a guided tour at one of the many museums on campus that are open this holiday season.
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