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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.
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Michigan’s University Research Corridor
Jun 2, 2017Michigan's University Research Corridor (URC) conducted $1.2 billion in research and development in the health sciences and has proved to be a key source of talent, deliverer of care and economic driver in Michigan, according to a new report.
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Surgical instrument moves like a surgeon's hand
May 29, 2017In an era of spiraling health care cost concerns, a new $500 surgical instrument developed at the University of Michigan is vying to take the place of a $2 million robot for certain minimally invasive procedures.
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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.
A selection of this collection is on view at Hatcher Graduate Library. Learn more -
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.
Learn more about Tappan's end