Featured Stories
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Need for speed: Michigan Performance Research Laboratory
Jul 18, 2016Jeff Plotzke wants to improve his running time. He's starting marathons and hopes to go faster and develop a more efficient gait, so he's asked the experts at the U-M Michigan Performance Research Laboratory to help him notch it up.
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Warming pulses in ancient climate record
Jul 11, 2016A new reconstruction of Antarctic ocean temperatures around the time the dinosaurs disappeared 66 million years ago supports the idea that one of the planet's biggest mass extinctions was due to the combined effects of volcanic eruptions and an asteroid impact.
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Icephobic Coating
Jul 4, 2016Kevin Golovin, a graduate student in materials science and engineering at U-M, demonstrates a new rubbery material that can create ice repelling, or "icephobic," coatings on a variety of materials, such as windshields or ship hulls.
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Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Jun 27, 2016One LSA program gives recent grads a chance to learn about the world—and themselves—all expenses paid. Join LSA on a world tour featuring student photographs—and stories—from around the globe.
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Ross Global Student Experiences
Jun 20, 2016Ambitious Michigan Ross undergrads are spending their summer visiting the world headquarters of e-commerce giants, interning at companies in Hong Kong and Australia, and chatting with the leaders of the European Central Bank about the challenges of managing a more risk-averse German population.
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Living Lab
Jun 13, 2016The Living Lab is a program in which U-M faculty bring research projects to public spaces so that parents and children can partake in real child development experiments.
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When Heads Rolled
Jun 6, 2016The construction of the iconic Law Quad first brought a clash of egos, followed by an order: “Off with their heads!” The addition of small stone gargoyles would spark ambition, irritation and ill will toward practically everyone involved.
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The Architectural Imagination
May 30, 2016The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning takes center stage this summer. They will highlight 12 innovative design possibilities for Detroit—with far-reaching applications for other cities around the world—in this year’s 2016 U.S. Venice Biennale exhibition.
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INAUGURAL M-PRIZE
May 23, 2016After two days of semifinals and finals concerts at the University of Michigan, the Calidore String Quartet has won the $100,000 M-Prize, a new chamber music competition hosted by the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
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Fashion meets research for bipolar disorder
May 16, 2016The Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund delves into the intricacies of bipolar disorder. This is an image of neural stem cells developed from a skin biopsy taken from an individual with the illness. We are collaborating with Pangborn Design to bring awareness to our vitally important research.
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Entrepreneurship from all angles
May 9, 2016From a nonprofit organization providing young girls in Detroit with access to musical training, to a precision medicine company helping critically ill patients, our students are solving problems and improving lives.
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Hail! Class of 2016
Apr 30, 2016Congratulations to all of the U-M students who earned their degrees this spring. More than 9,000 received their diplomas during Spring Commencement at Michigan Stadium on April 30. Other graduation ceremonies are being held across campus through May 13. #MGoGrad
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Social justice + music
Apr 25, 2016“Seven Last Words of the Unarmed,” a multi-movement work by Atlanta-based composer Joel Thompson that is inspired by the dying words of seven unarmed black men, was premiered by the Men's Glee Club under the direction of Eugene Rogers, associate director of choirs and professor of conducting.
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Changing Society With Art
Apr 18, 2016Meredith Starkman is the latest recipient of the Wallenberg Fellowship, awarded each spring to a graduating U-M senior with exceptional promise and accomplishment who is committed to service and the public good. This theatre performance student plans to spend the next year working in India.
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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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