Featured Stories
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Coffee Killer
Sep 21, 2015A fungus called coffee rust, or la roya in Spanish, is ravaging farms in Central America – one of the world's biggest producers of the crop. U-M ecologists Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer are studying how the fungus spreads through fields. Their research could help save coffee.
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The Medicine In Our Garden
Sep 14, 2015Continuing more than a century of research, education and healing through botany, U-M’s new medicinal garden is open at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. More than 110 varieties of plants can be found in this exhibition, uniquely grouped by systems of the human body and the diseases they help to treat.
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National Medal of Arts
Sep 1, 2015A testament to U-M's commitment to world class arts presentation and education, the University Musical Society and George Shirley, emeritus professor at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, will each receive the nation's highest public artistic honor.
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Welcome Back
Aug 31, 2015There's definitely a buzz in the air in Ann Arbor. U-M students are back in town and ready to start the new school year. There are a variety of Welcome Events happening across campus to help students get back into the swing of things.
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The War of 1817
Aug 24, 2015Happy birthday to us: U-M is officially 198 years old, thanks to a spirited battle over the founding date that added 20 years to the University’s life.
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restoring marsh biodiversity
Aug 17, 2015Students from the general ecology course at the U-M Biological Station in Pellston explore nearby Cheboygan Marsh. This summer, a research team based at the station harvested 20 to 30 tons of cattails from the marsh in an innovative wetlands restoration project.
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Caring for women in the Congo
Aug 10, 2015His English was limited. She couldn't speak French. But that didn't stop a Congolese physician and a U-M School of Nursing professor from building a partnership in one of the most dangerous places for women in the world.
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Transforming Residential Learning
Aug 3, 2015The new Munger Graduate Residences challenge U-M students to develop networks across disciplines and to pursue new ideas together. This new campus housing option provides an innovative environment where today's graduate and professional students can develop into tomorrow's leaders.
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Masters in Social Work Placements
Jul 27, 2015It’s a dream team – the U-M School of Social Work, the U-M football team, the U.S. Marine Corps and the Detroit Lions joined together last week to teach life skills, football, language arts and the STEM curriculum to more than 100 adolescent boys from Detroit.
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Mcity Opens
Jul 20, 2015U-M's Mcity is a 32-acre simulated urban and suburban environment specifically designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicle technologies that will lead the way to mass-market driverless cars.
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Puzzles, Riddles and Enigmas
Jul 13, 2015The annual Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni Exhibition offers an opportunity for graduates from around the world to share their creative work. Coinciding with the art fairs, the show takes place at the Slusser Gallery on North Campus and Work • Ann Arbor on State St. from July 13 to Aug. 1.
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Kirigami art meets cutting edge science
Jul 6, 2015The art of paper cutting may slice through a roadblock on the way to flexible, stretchable electronics, a team of engineers and an artist at the University of Michigan has found.
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Semester in Detroit
Jun 29, 2015As students at the University of Michigan, we are not here to save Detroit or impose our vision on the community. Instead, we are here to serve in any way we can, contribute in a way that fulfills the community’s needs as opposed to our own. -Blogger Alexandra Nowlin, Semester in Detroit
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Food Network
Jun 22, 2015U-M students recently led the charge to create a new minor focused on sustainable food. Offered through the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts’ Program in the Environment, it provides an interdisciplinary study of food and food issues around the world in relation to the environment.
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19th Century Selfies
Jun 15, 2015An African-American Women's History class project recently uncovered the story behind 19th-century African American ‘selfies.’ Students examined a pair of unique family photo albums at the William L. Clements Library that provided insight into everyday African-American life at that time.
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All the Arb's a Stage
Jun 8, 2015In celebration of U-M’s Shakespeare in the Arb turning 15, there will be four weekends of performances of the audience favorite “A Midsummer Night's Dream.” Each show takes place at several sites throughout Nichols Arboretum creating a moving theater experience for the audience and cast.
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A CREATION OF MY OWN
Jun 1, 2015U-M President Henry P. Tappan had a bold vision in 1852: Build a great telescope on the Michigan campus to signal the University’s serious commitment to science. The result was the Detroit Observatory and a vibrant culture of academic research.
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The Science of Small
May 25, 2015Labs at U-M's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts are using Nobel Prize-winning microscope techniques to look closely at what was once invisibly tiny — molecules moving around inside of cells. The new view magnifies some major possibilities for how we may one day see the world.
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Tracking toxicity in Lake Erie
May 18, 2015U-M researchers are using state-of-the-art genomics and environmental chemistry to study the toxicity of algal blooms in Lake Erie caused by nutrients from farm runoff. They hope the study results can be incorporated into computer-based ecological models used to forecast harmful algal blooms.
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Saving babies’ lives with 3D printing
May 11, 2015Three boys — with the same life-threatening condition, a terminal form of tracheobronchomalacia — became the first in the world to benefit from groundbreaking 3-D printed devices that kept their airways open, restored their breathing and saved their lives at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.
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Building a better refugee camp
May 5, 2015Recent U-M architecture graduate Bjornar Haveland is spending a year researching how to improve the quality of life in refugee camps. He is the latest recipient of U-M's Wallenberg Fellowship, awarded to graduating seniors committed to service and the public good.
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Hail! Class of 2015
May 2, 2015Congratulations to all of the U-M students who earned their degrees this spring. More than 9,100 received their diplomas during Spring Commencement at Michigan Stadium on May 2. Other graduation ceremonies are being held across campus through May 15. Go Blue!
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Finding Solutions Together
Apr 27, 2015Team-based Clinical Decision Making was offered this semester to more than 250 students from U-M’s College of Pharmacy, Medical School, Schools of Dentistry, Nursing and Social Work. The course is part of an Interprofessional Education effort transforming the way health professions students learn.
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Finding New Hope in Old Soap
Apr 20, 2015What happens to bars of hotel soap after guests leave? A U-M alumna has found a way to recycle and redistribute them in India. Her soap-making operation, Sundara, has produced more than 6,000 bars of recycled soap and trained 17 teachers to conduct hygiene workshops in 30 Mumbai-area schools.
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Wild Idea of a Child-Designed Playground
Apr 13, 2015As part of her MFA thesis, a U-M Stamps School of Art & Design graduate student spearheaded a major, student-led design project with elementary school students and their art teacher at Ann Arbor STEAM. They have been working together all year to plan and redesign the school’s playground.
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