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U-M is a leader in study abroad
Nov 13, 2017From Germany to South Africa and China to South America, U-M is in the top 10 among higher education institutions with the most students studying abroad.
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Student Veterans at U-M
Nov 6, 2017“It became very clear to me that our school was known for its successful programs and groups for veterans to turn to for many different types of support. I feel very lucky to be a part of this university’s student veteran community — one that provides a sense of belonging. It’s much like that of the military families all of us have made during our service in the past.”
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Home Sweet Homelab
Oct 30, 2017When researchers needed a way to study how people live and move in their own home, University of Michigan brought home to the researchers.
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MICHIGAN HORIZONS
Oct 23, 2017The final bicentennial festival of 2017 looks to the University's future and concludes with a uniquely Michigan HAILstorm!
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Expanding cancer research
Oct 16, 2017With a new partnership between the U-M School of Public Health and Ethiopia's Public Health institute, more than 14,000 handwritten cancer reports have found a place in an online cancer registry. It all started with a chance meeting.
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2nd place for U-M Solar Car
Oct 12, 2017In the best international finish in U-M Solar Car's 27-year history, the team took silver in the 2017 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia #BWSC17 #GoBlue
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Architecture students learn from pros
Oct 9, 2017Teams of Taubman College students create solar umbrella roof designs for a graduate art center at UCLA. The real architectural challenge presented by a professional in the field is the focus of an engaged learning workshop.
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Genetic Research a Key Ingredient to Precision Health
Oct 3, 2017Talk with researchers involved with Precision Health at the University of Michigan and the same sense of purpose emerges: to use intelligence about our individual make-up, in combination with data about our health experience and habits, to speed scientific discoveries that will impact personal health.
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Printable Medications
Sep 27, 2017A technology that can print pure, ultra-precise doses of drugs onto a wide variety of surfaces could one day enable on-site printing of custom-dosed medications at pharmacies, hospitals and other locations. The technique, which was developed at U-M, can print multiple medications into a single dose on a dissolvable strip, microneedle patch or other dosing device.
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Three species of tiny frogs discovered in Peruvian Andes
Sep 25, 2017A University of Michigan ecologist and his colleagues have discovered three more frog species in the Peruvian Andes, raising to five the total number of new frog species the group has found in a remote protected forest since 2012.
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Finding the right way and ‘why’ to get healthy
Sep 18, 2017U-M fitness expert Michelle Segar, director of the Sport, Health, and Activity Research and Policy Center, says popular fitness trackers don't inherently make us move. Rather, it's the way that exercise makes us feel that ultimately motivates us to get active.
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U-M Biologist teaches microbe-hunting skills honed at sea
Sep 11, 2017U-M biologist Melissa Duhaime recently spent a month on a research vessel off the coast of Antarctica, filtering bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms from thousands of gallons of seawater. Now she will head out on Lake Michigan in a 65-foot schooner to teach her microbe-hunting skills to U-M undergraduates as part of a new course called "Microbes in the Wild: Environmental Microbiology Lab."
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Welcome Back
Sep 4, 2017The 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!
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Happy 200th Birthday
Aug 26, 2017It's our birthday! On Aug. 26, 1817, the University of Michigania was born in Detroit. For 200 years, U-M has embodied the spirit of public higher education.
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Youth employment program offers mentors, life skills
Aug 21, 201740 youth participants have been working in departments across campus this summer as part of U-M’s Summer Youth Employment Program, an initiative spearheaded by Poverty Solutions, a major U-M initiative dedicated to the prevention and alleviation of poverty.
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M-Air: New Outdoor drone complex
Aug 14, 2017An outdoor fly lab for testing autonomous aerial vehicles is coming to the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering this fall, adding to the university’s spate of advanced robotics facilities.
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Nanoparticles could spur better LEDs, invisibility cloaks
Aug 7, 2017In an advance that could boost the efficiency of LED lighting by 50 percent and even pave the way for invisibility cloaking devices, a team of University of Michigan researchers has developed a new technique that peppers metallic nanoparticles into semiconductors. It's the first technique that can inexpensively grow metal nanoparticles both on and below the surface of semiconductors.
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Jupiter-like planet discovered
Jul 31, 2017A U-M professor is part of a team that has discovered a giant, Jupiter-like planet that revolves around a star approximately 385 light years from the Sun.
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New robotic lab tracking toxicity of Lake Erie algal bloom
Jul 20, 2017A new research tool to safeguard drinking water is now keeping a watchful eye on Lake Erie. This week, a robotic lake-bottom laboratory began tracking the levels of dangerous toxins produced by cyanobacteria that bloom each summer in the lake's western basin.
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Art Fair
Jul 17, 2017Art lovers will once again fill the streets of Ann Arbor at the Ann Arbor Art Fair, which runs July 20–23. The University of Michigan welcomes one and all to its many museums, gallery exhibitions and tours on campus. Many activities and exhibitions are free and open to the public.
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Speak for Yourself
Jul 10, 2017Forced to flee the Soviet Union, poet Joseph Brodsky found allies in LSA scholars who fought the restrictions facing writers in the U.S.S.R. by speaking out and providing a venue for silenced voices.
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Straw Bale House
Jul 3, 2017Poised on a hilltop overlooking Douglas Lake at the U-M Biological Station, it is the university’s first foray into straw bale building, and the first student-built structure in more than 100 years. Learn how 22 undergraduates and one fearless leader used 200 bales of straw and some mud to build U-M’s first off-the-grid structure.
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ultra durable water-repellent coating
Jun 26, 2017A self-healing, water-repellent, spray-on coating developed at U-M is hundreds of times more durable than its counterparts. Two droplets of water are shown being repelled by the coating. The droplet on the left is sitting on a surface that has been abraded by a machine.
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Grandmother Tree walk
Jun 19, 2017Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrate the University of Michigan's Bicentennial with the Grandmother Tree Walk. The self-guided tour is a journey through Michigan time that looks at the people, places and events in the university's 200-year history from the perspective of trees. #UMich200
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Into the Storm
Jun 12, 2017The most turbulent region of a hurricane holds secrets about its potential for destruction. Michigan Engineering’s newly launched satellite system can reveal how these storms intensify in a warming world.
Learn how this new satellite can see through rain
