Featured Stories
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Rubik’s Huge
May 22, 2017A giant Rubik's Cube newly installed on the University of Michigan's North Campus is believed to be the world's largest hand-solvable, stationary version of the famous puzzle. It was imagined, designed and built by two teams of mechanical engineering undergraduate students over the course of three years.
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Moving from “Wantrepreneurs” to Entrepreneurs
May 15, 2017Students are constantly capitalizing on U-M’s innovative entrepreneurial environment to bring their ideas to life. The stories of 50+ teams from all around the campus who made it happen this year are shared in the new Made at Michigan report.
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Chinese dance collection
May 8, 2017The new U-M Asia Library’s Chinese Dance Collection is the largest in North America. The collection features a wealth of rare materials—books, periodicals, photo albums, performance programs, postcards, mimeographs and manuscripts.
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HAIL! CLASS OF 2017
Apr 29, 2017Congratulations to all of the U-M students who earned their degrees this spring. You have an education informed by two centuries of inquiry, by two centuries of truth, and – of course – by two very powerful words. Graduates, Michigan’s third century is now yours. Go discover. Go achieve. Go serve. And Go Blue! #MGoGrad #UMich200
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Digital Islam
Apr 24, 2017U-M is connecting students across Big Ten universities to courses that can lead to a greater understanding of complex topics. The Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum allows students to take courses about Islam not offered at their own institutions.
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3D Migraine Visualization
Apr 17, 2017Using PET scans of the brain, University of Michigan researchers showed that dopamine falls and fluctuates at different times during a migraine headache. Outfitted with a joystick and special glasses, Alex DaSilva examines 3D images of the brain to better understand brain chemical fluctuations during a migraine headache.
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Rhythm is The Beating Heart of Cuba
Apr 10, 2017A group from the School of Music, Theatre & Dance traveled to Cuba as part of a recent week-long visit where the group sought to learn first-hand the Latin rhythms that have played an important part in influencing many genres of music.
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Burton Tower Aglow for Bicentennial
Apr 3, 2017In honor of the University of Michigan’s 200th year, the Burton Memorial Tower will glow in new maize and blue lighting for all 2017 Bicentennial events, starting with the the UMich200 Spring Festival on campus this week.
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Public Health Collaborations in Bangladesh
Mar 27, 2017U-M School of Public Health researchers in Bangladesh examined pressing global health issues and explored potential research collaborations.
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Victors for Art
Mar 20, 2017The U-M Museum of Art will celebrate the university’s bicentennial year with a two-part exhibition featuring 115 works of art from seven decades of alumni collectors and 3,500 years of human creativity. From Andy Warhol to Georgia O’Keeffe, James McNeill Whistler, Alberto Giacometti and more, you won’t want to miss this spectacular show.
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3-D printed orthotics: Better fit, same day
Mar 13, 2017A new way to design and 3-D print custom orthotics and prosthetics could give amputees, stroke patients and individuals with cerebral palsy lighter, better-fitting assistive devices in a fraction of the time it takes to get them today.
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Rhapsodies in Blue
Mar 6, 2017From the visual to the vocal and on to the musical, Michigan's love affair with the color blue has been long and complicated. How “azure blue” evolved into the universal slogan of U-M loyalists everywhere.
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Architecture Biennale exhibition opens at Detroit’s MOCAD
Feb 27, 2017Organized by the U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning on behalf of the U.S. Department of State, the exhibition comes to MOCAD after first opening at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy last year.
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Pioneers of Sustainability
Feb 20, 2017Building on our strengths, U-M is developing a new type of school to address increasingly dynamic and complex global sustainability challenges. Learn more about the long history of sustainability on campus and how it's contributing to our progress and discoveries today.
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Building a stronger Haiti with engineering and chocolate
Feb 13, 2017Journey from bean to bar in the jungles and streets of Haiti and meet the Michigan Engineer who’s churning out opportunity for her native country.
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The Firing of a President
Feb 6, 2017Michigan’s visionary first president Henry P. Tappan was brought down by editors, teetotalers, professors, regents ... and his own arrogance.
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Bringing back Great Lakes giants
Jan 30, 2017U-M researchers are part of a multi-institution team working to restore lake sturgeon, which were once common in the Great Lakes, by building rock spawning reefs in two Detroit-area rivers. The latest set of reefs was completed last month in the Detroit River near Belle Isle.
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Bringing Indian music to the world
Jan 23, 2017Professor Mousumi Banerjee grew up listening to the songs of Indian poet, writer and composer Rabindranath Tagore. Now her quest is to convert the songs to Western music notation, starting with a high school orchestra, hoping to make the music more accessible.
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2017 MLK Symposium
Jan 16, 2017With the theme “Sounds of Change,” the 2017 MLK Symposium features dozens of events that will explore how sound can mark moments of change. Events include a keynote lecture/conversation with Amy Goodman and Issa Rae and a talk on movement building by BLM activist Shaun King.
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Celebrating 200 Years of Excellence
Jan 9, 2017At Michigan, we’ve been educating future leaders since 1817. Together we can accomplish great things beyond what any one person can do.
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Why 1817 Matters
Jan 1, 2017With the arrival of 2017, the University is celebrating the 200th year since its founding in Detroit. But for many decades, 1837 was considered U-M’s birth year – in Ann Arbor.
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’TIS THE SEASON
Dec 26, 2016Winter 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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Camera-trap project captures Michigan wildlife selfies
Dec 19, 2016Wildlife ecologist Nyeema Harris is capturing hundreds of thousands of Michigan wildlife photos using motion-triggered cameras. Students across the state are helping her identify the animals.
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Lessons on Digital Citizenship
Dec 12, 2016U-M master’s students are sharing digital citizenship lessons with eighth graders at Scarlett Middle School in Ann Arbor so that the younger students can become ambassadors to spread the word about this growing problem in the nation’s schools.
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Following the migrant trail
Dec 5, 2016Anthropology researcher Jason De León follows the perilous journey taken by Central Americans fleeing violence and poverty in Mexico to get to the U.S. – and the smugglers behind them. He aims to put a face on the phenomenon he says is highly politicized and poorly understood.
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