Featured Stories
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Building a Brighter Future
Apr 11, 2016At U-M, many disciplines are coming together to solve complex sustainability challenges and improve lives on local-to-global scales through groundbreaking discoveries.
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Thomas Francis Jr. Medal in Global Public Health
Apr 4, 2016U-M honored Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, a champion of global public health, as the president bestowed the third Thomas Francis Jr. Medal upon the leader of an international organization that works to alleviate poverty by creating opportunities.
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Innovative Women to Watch
Mar 28, 2016Engineering student Arianna Carley is hoping to help ease the pain of patient transport in health care facilities around the nation with her venture AOE Med. She’s one of 26 innovative female students dedicated to making a difference to keep an eye on in 2016.
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Birthing SIM lab
Mar 21, 2016Life-like mannequins are the stars of the Clinical Learning Center Simulation Lab in the new School of Nursing building. The SIM lab recreates real-life patient situations—especially trauma—that most nursing students won't see during clinical rotations.
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entrepreneurship and innovation
Mar 13, 2016Researchers from architecture, computer science, music, civil engineering, information, interactive design, and occupational therapy came together for this sensory surface project, which is one five U-M exhibits featured at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, TX this week.
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Solving a bird mystery
Mar 7, 2016When Swedish and Indian scientists wanted to confirm they discovered a new species of bird in the Himalayas of northeastern India, they turned to U-M's Museum of Zoology—home to one of the biggest collections of avian specimens in the U.S.
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M-Hacks: Refactor
Feb 29, 2016This year MHacks leadership decided to aim for a welcoming experience. MHacks: Refactor brought together a community of passionate and hardworking makers, creators, and builders, including those who you might not typically see around the average hackathon.
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Food Addiction: Eat, Drink, and Be Wary
Feb 22, 2016People might joke that they’re addicted to cookies or a favorite flavor of ice cream, but Professor Ashley Gearhardt’s research suggests that addiction to some foods could be no laughing matter.
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Matthaei’s immortal agave
Feb 15, 2016After taking an unprecedented 80 years to bloom, U-M's agave plant continues to captivate audiences in Ann Arbor and beyond. Musicians from the School of Music, Theatre & Dance transformed its flower stalk into a traditional Japanese shakuhachi flute for a performance at Matthaei Botanical Gardens.
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Rising Waters
Feb 8, 2016In one of the most complex urban environments on earth, we follow a Michigan Engineer into Jakarta's monsoon season where 21st century engineering lets people save themselves from rising waters — 140 characters at a time.
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Bringing Braille back with better display technology
Feb 1, 2016Sile O’Modhrain, an associate professor in the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance and the School of Information, has teamed up with engineering researchers to build a better Braille display – one that could show the equivalent of a whole tablet screen at once.
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Meet the man giving a voice to the sun
Jan 25, 2016Robert Alexander works to give the sun a voice. As a sonification specialist at the University of Michigan, Alexander turns data from the sun into music. And not only does it sound beautiful, but it can help further our understanding of the celestial body.
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2016 MLK Symposium
Jan 18, 2016U-M’s 30th annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium titled #WhoWillBeNext features more than 50 special events across campus honoring Dr. King's life and vision.
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Mcity: Preparing for a Driverless Future
Jan 11, 2016One key test bed for driverless car technology is Mcity, a 32-acre self-contained cityscape at U-M that’s the world’s largest dedicated testing facility for driverless cars, as well as the data and infrastructure technologies that will go with them.
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Failed candy recipe solves sticky problem
Jan 4, 2016Imagine trying to dislodge something 10 times softer than gelatin, while keeping every detail unscathed down to a microscopic level. That was the problem faced by University of Michigan postdoctoral researcher Chris Moraes and a team led by biomedical engineering professor Shu Takayama.
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Campus Characters
Dec 21, 2015Long before Shakey Jake roamed Ann Arbor, students at Michigan conducted affairs of the heart with a series of characters who took on the status of human landmarks.
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Surgery saves man's career after accident
Dec 14, 2015Kagan Ozer, M.D., the surgeon who leads U-M’s new hand transplant program, reattached the hairstylist’s arm after it was almost sawed off.
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Helping Africa Hear
Dec 7, 2015Chronic ear infections are common in Africa. There's a severe shortage of doctors with the skills to treat the illness, which can lead to life-altering hearing loss. In a new partnership, U-M physicians have begun training surgeons in the West African nation of Ghana.
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Giving Blueday was a success!
Dec 2, 2015The 24-hour day of giving, held on December 1, saw the U-M community and its friends come together to support their passions at Michigan. Giving Blueday emphasizes the importance of giving, and giving to meaningful causes. The day may be over but the impact of these gifts is just beginning.
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It’s Giving Blueday!
Dec 1, 2015Today is the day! Giving Blueday, our 24-hour day of giving, makes an impact on communities near and far. With your support, the university can continue to change lives, tackle complex problems, support faculty and research, and enable talented students to study at Michigan.
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What difference can one day make?
Nov 30, 2015Giving Blueday is on December 1, 2015. The 24-hour day of giving coincides with the national movement to kick off the giving season, Giving Tuesday. With a successful launch in 2014, Giving Blueday makes a tremendous impact on the university and its neighboring communities.
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A national leader in education abroad
Nov 23, 2015Every year, more and more U-M students are reaching out to experience the world beyond our borders. A new report funded by the U.S. State Department says that for the second consecutive year, the number of U-M students studying abroad increased by 15 percent, making the university a national leader.
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Nanotechnology Lab
Nov 16, 2015G.G. Brown Laboratories on North Campus, expanded one year ago, allow researchers to study the forces at work at the smallest scales, to advance nanotechnologies in energy, manufacturing, healthcare and biotechnology.
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Community Assembly
Nov 10, 2015The university came together for a Community Assembly with President Schlissel in Rackham Auditorium on Nov. 10. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Clarence Page said such an event is rare, as diversity is more typically discussed among friends and family, rather than in public.
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Diversity Summit
Nov 9, 2015The entire university will convene at the U-M Diversity Summit, November 4-13, including a Community Assembly with President Schlissel in Rackham Auditorium on Nov.10, from 9-11 a.m. Everyone is invited to participate and contribute to the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion vision, assessment and plan.
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