Featured Stories
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Turning Passions into Classrooms
Feb 12, 2024University of Michigan's M-ARC program offers a solution to the growing teacher shortage in Michigan, providing accessible teaching certifications. Two M-ARC graduates tell their stories of transformation into the teaching world.
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‘Dolomite Problem’: 200-year-old geology mystery resolved
Feb 5, 2024To build mountains from dolomite, a common mineral, it must periodically dissolve. This counter-intuitive lesson could help make new defect-free semiconductors and more.
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The Writing Life
Jan 29, 2024Lillian Li, Gerardo Sámano Córdova and Darrel Alejandro Holnes are three U-M alumni who have found harmony between the writing life and day jobs. How do they do it?
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Blue PHOLEDs
Jan 22, 2024Lights could soon use the full color suite of perfectly efficient organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, that last tens of thousands of hours, thanks to an innovation from physicists and engineers at the University of Michigan.
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2024 MLK Symposium
Jan 14, 2024The theme of the 2024 MLK Symposium is “Transforming the Jangling Discords of Our Nation into a Beautiful Symphony.” Recalling a line from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech, the statement encapsulates a profound vision of unity, peace and reconciliation in the face of discord and division.
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Hail to the Victors!
Jan 8, 2024Congratulations to the Michigan Football team on winning the National Championship! Go Blue!
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Legacy in land
Jan 7, 2024U-M alum Susan Morley LaCroix is helping Michigan families preserve and protect their land through her work as the Legacy Land Conservancy's land protection director. The conservancy protects land by obtaining public and private funding to create easements and public preserves that permanently protect private land.
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History Carved in Stoneware
Jan 1, 2024Enslaved Black potters created stoneware that today is being recognized as great art. Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina is a landmark exhibition of more than 60 objects representing the work of African American potters in the decades surrounding the Civil War.
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‘Tis the season
Dec 25, 2023The University of Michigan and the city of Ann Arbor always have something to see, hear or visit. If you find yourself in the area during the holidays, enjoy one of the many exhibitions and events taking place.
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Automated shuttle safety testing at Mcity
Dec 18, 2023Testing of a new automated shuttle is underway at the University of Michigan’s Mcity Test Facility to ensure the technology is ready to safely serve older adults and people with disabilities in the city of Detroit.
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Striking a ‘Crescendo’ in after-school arts programming
Dec 11, 2023Crescendo Detroit, a non-profit organization founded by U-M Alum Damien Crutcher, has offered youth programs centered on instrumental music and dance since 2013. It teaches literacy and life skills, while providing homework support, and daily meals and snacks in the Dexter-Davison neighborhood.
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Building robots and a future in STEM
Dec 4, 2023After excelling in careers at Microsoft, Amazon and Meta, U-M alum and renowned video game engineer Leon Pryor (BS EE 1997) co-founded The Motor City Alliance, a 501c3 that works with over 70 Metro Detroit elementary and middle school teams annually to help them compete and win national robotics competitions.
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Elephants: Earth’s giant climate change canaries
Nov 27, 2023U-M paleontologist Bill Sanders has devoted his 40-year research career to tracking 60 million years of Afro-Arabian proboscidean—elephants and their ordinal relatives—evolution. In a recent project, he has traced the earliest signs of proboscideans in the fossil record, up until our modern elephants.
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A New Generation of Scientists
Nov 20, 2023U-M alum and UT professor Kate Biberdorf, aka “Kate the Chemist,” sets fire to stereotypes. “Once I started learning chemistry, I could find the answers to all my questions somehow. I look around and everything I see has chemistry in it.”
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Concussion care
Nov 13, 2023The University of Michigan Concussion Center has partnered with the Michigan High School Athletics Association to ensure that every coach, parent and athlete knows how to properly prevent and treat concussions. This effort currently reaches more than 750 high schools across the state of Michigan.
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Student veteran
Nov 6, 2023When Olubukola Akinbami was evaluating colleges, she sought an option that had benefits like a good program for veterans, a solid presence of veterans on campus, and cognitive science – her preferred area of study – available as a major. The University of Michigan checked these boxes.
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Hiss-toric first
Oct 30, 2023The U-M Museum of Zoology recently acquired tens of thousands of scientifically priceless reptile and amphibian specimens, including roughly 30,000 snakes preserved in alcohol-filled glass jars. The newly acquired reptiles and amphibians boost the university’s collection of those animals to roughly half a million specimens, including some 70,000 snakes.
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Tumor-destroying sound waves
Oct 23, 2023The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of sound waves to break down tumors—a technique called histotripsy—in humans for liver treatment. Pioneered at the University of Michigan, histotripsy offers a promising alternative to cancer treatments such as surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, which often have significant side effects.
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‘Astrum’ solar car
Oct 16, 2023With a name inspired by the Latin phrase “ad astra,” which means “to the stars,” the University of Michigan Solar Car Team is scheduled to race in this year’s Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, a biannual, 1,800-mile race from Darwin on Australia’s northern coast to Adelaide on the country’s southern coast. The race begins Oct. 22.
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U-M’s sustainable material, color garden
Oct 9, 2023The U-M Stamps Sustainable Materials & Color Garden allows Stamps creatives to source plants for natural art practices, creating accessible opportunities to cultivate plants used for materials, natural dyes, and papermaking.
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Building curious machines
Oct 1, 2023Despite thousands of years of exploration, the vast majority of Earth’s oceans and lakes are uncharted and unknown to humans. A team led by U-M Robotics professor Katie Skinner is developing technology that will explore the seafloor much as a human would. It uses artificial intelligence to scour sonar data and quickly identify areas that warrant a closer look.
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Center for Complex Particle Systems
Sep 25, 2023To bring nature’s efficiency and flexibility to advanced materials and additive manufacturing, the University of Michigan will lead an international team of scientists, engineers and educators in a five-year, $30 million center funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Nearly zero-waste solution for construction
Sep 18, 2023The BioMatters team at the University of Michigan has developed a fully biodegradable, reusable and recyclable material to replace the wasteful concrete formwork traditionally used across the construction industry.
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Bridging cultures, empowering communities
Sep 11, 2023From the intricate tapestries of China and the untamed expanses of Mongolia to the vibrant streets of France and the heart of South Africa, University of Michigan students embarked on expeditions that defied borders and redefined cultural connections this summer.
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Inspiring Future Architects
Sep 4, 2023ArcPrep is a collaboration between the U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Detroit Public Schools Community District that expands opportunities for high school juniors who want to learn about opportunities in the architecture field. It also connects students with architects and designers throughout the city.
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