Featured Stories
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The Birth of Earth Day
Apr 6, 2015U-M’s Teach-In on the Environment was not the first Earth Day. It was the huge and spectacularly successful prototype of the first Earth Day, which happened five weeks later—“the most famous little-known event,” one historian has written, “in modern American history.”
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Creating a Healthier Planet
Mar 30, 2015U-M students, faculty and staff are addressing sustainability challenges on campus and around the world. The 2014 Sustainability Progress Report highlights the impact of recent student engagement, research and campus operations projects.
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Bulletproof Batteries
Mar 23, 2015A new technology developed at U-M is creating safer, thinner lithium rechargeable batteries. It features a barrier between the electrodes made with nanofibers from Kevlar, the tough material in bulletproof vests. The research team hopes to take this innovation from the lab into the market by 2016.
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Bringing Death Dogs To Life
Mar 16, 2015The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at U-M features “Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt” through May 3. Using museum artifacts, this exhibit identifies the most important Egyptian jackal gods and examines their roles in Egyptian religion and understandings of death and the afterlife.
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Emerging Market Economic Development
Mar 9, 2015Business students from the Ross Global Practicum “Understanding Industry Growth in Chile” traveled to Chile over spring break. They met with business leaders, visited companies and conducted fieldwork in Santiago.
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Shedding Light on China's Past
Mar 2, 2015U-M graduate student Joseph Ho has collected 1,500 photographs and three hours of film shot by American missionaries in China from the 1920s to the early 1950s — one of the country's most tumultuous periods.
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Addressing Ebola
Feb 23, 2015Students, faculty and professionals from the Stamps School of Art & Design, the School of Public Health, the Medical School, African Studies and the School of Nursing recently worked in teams to generate creative solutions to critical issues related to the Ebola crisis.
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U-M Students Shine in Fulbrights
Feb 12, 2015U-M students received 28 Fulbright grants—more than any other public university in the nation during 2014-15. Kelicia Hollis earned her master's degree in higher education at U-M and is now in Tianjin, China, researching how Chinese students prepare to study abroad.
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Mentoring Makers
Feb 9, 2015Michigan Makers, a U-M School of Information program, gives students the opportunity to practice mentoring children in less formal learning environments. The course encourages creativity and "tinkering" primarily through technology. It is supported by a U-M Third Century Initiative grant
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Home is where the artificial heart is
Feb 2, 2015Using wearable technology from the U-M Frankel Cardiovascular Center, Stan Larkin can wait at home for a heart transplant. He’s the first patient to leave a Michigan hospital without a human heart. His artificial heart is powered by a portable device called the Freedom Driver.
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M City on North Campus
Jan 26, 2015U-M's 32-acre "mini-city," designed for testing connected and automated vehicle systems and other 21st-century smart-city technologies, is starting to take shape. It will include roads, sidewalks, bus facilities, benches, buildings, streetlights, parked cars, pedestrians and construction barriers.
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Honoring the Dream
Jan 19, 2015U-M’s 29th annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium, “Unity: Not Uniformity,” features more than 40 special events across campus honoring Dr. King's life and vision.
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Diving for New Drugs in the Red Sea
Jan 12, 2015U-M Life Sciences Institute's David Sherman explores biochemical pathways of marine microorganisms with the goal of finding new drug candidates to treat infectious diseases and cancers. In November, Sherman traveled to Saudi Arabia to collect marine microorganisms from the Red Sea.
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Gift of Vision
Jan 5, 2015Philanthropy has shaped U-M with gifts of land, artwork, scientific specimens, books and cash. In 1917, U-M’s first significant fellowship for international students — the Barbour Scholarships — was established by Regent Levi Barbour to allow women from Asia to experience a U-M education.
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The Art of Winter Break
Dec 22, 2014Now that winter break is upon us, all is quiet due to closings or reduced hours across the campuses. There are still several activities available at U-M museums this holiday season for faculty, staff and the general public.
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Learning from Brazil's Success
Dec 15, 2014Brazil has a world-leading network of "milk banks" collecting donated breast milk from mothers and providing it to babies in need. U-M physicians and other health professionals recently visited the South American nation to see what they could learn from the Brazilian model.
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Spreading the Entrepreneurial Spirit
Dec 8, 2014The world's largest student pitch competition is spreading the spirit of entrepreneurship beyond Michigan. The 1,000 Pitches contest, which began at U-M seven years ago, has grown to six campuses across the country. More than 7,500 ideas were gathered this year.
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The World is our Classroom
Dec 3, 2014U-M has climbed to No. 6 in an annual ranking of higher education institutions with the most students studying abroad in 2012-13. There were 2,365 students studying overseas, a 15-percent increase from the previous period.
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Give Blue!
Nov 24, 2014Tuesday, Dec. 2 is U-M's first-ever, 24-hour day of giving. Giving Blueday is an opportunity for everyone who loves Michigan to join together to support students, transform lives, shape the world and make great things happen.
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Climate clues
Nov 17, 2014In a study published online in Science, researchers from the U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences show for the first time that sunlight, not microbial activity, dominates the production of carbon dioxide in Arctic inland waters.
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Big Advances for Small Discoveries
Nov 10, 2014A new $46 million Center of Excellence in Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering is letting researchers study the forces at work at the smallest scales to advance nanotechnologies in energy, manufacturing, healthcare and biotechnology.
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Putting Great Ideas To Work
Nov 3, 2014Fiscal year 2014 set new records for tech transfer performance at U-M with 439 new inventions, 148 agreements and 14 startups launched — all derived from U-M research discoveries — demonstrating the growing participation and success of U-M faculty in tech transfer activities.
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"Into the Wind"
Oct 27, 2014“Into the Wind” initially started as an effort involving several U-M departments and then grew to include partners from Grand Valley State and the Muskegon community. The performances featuring dance students, alumni and faculty were designed to inspire dialogue about wind as a source of energy.
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Professor White's Diag
Oct 20, 2014When Andrew Dickson White arrived at U-M in 1857 he saw it as a scrubby field that was not a fit place for learning. Without permission, he began planting and caring for trees on the Diag. Gradually some of his students began to join him. Today, more than 14,000 trees stand on the Ann Arbor campus.
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Documenting Dissent
Oct 13, 2014Students and scholars now have a new resource to mine. U-M alumnus and activist Tom Hayden has committed his personal documents, photographs, recordings and government files revealing the nation's political evolution from the mid-20th century to the present to the Joseph A. Labadie Collection.
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