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Live Coal
May 22, 2023Yvette Rock, who earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from U-M in 1999, started the Live Coal Gallery in Detroit to provide a safe place for young artists to create and express their artistry to the world. Its mission is to transform lives and neighborhoods through art, community development and education.
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A Cabin in the Woods
May 15, 2023For more than a century, students have left messages on cabin walls at the U-M Biological Station. The graffiti serves as a rustic time capsule of a unique summertime experience many students say changed their lives and set the course for their careers in science and the environment.
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Bigger flowers, greater rewards
May 8, 2023There’s been a well-documented shift toward earlier springtime flowering in many plants as the world warms. The trend alarms biologists because it has the potential to disrupt carefully choreographed interactions between plants and the creatures—butterflies, bees, birds, bats and others—that pollinate them.
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Hail! Class of 2023
Apr 29, 2023Congratulations to all of the U-M students who earned their degrees this spring. Students received their diplomas during Spring Commencement at Michigan Stadium on April 29. Other graduation celebrations are being held across campus through April 30. #MGoGrad
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3D concrete printing
Apr 24, 2023A transformative development in 3D concrete printing promises innovation in the construction industry—with better and more environmentally friendly structures coming at a lower cost, say researchers at U-M'S Taubman College.
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Sacred ground
Apr 17, 2023Stepping out of the classroom and onto the beaches in Normandy, France, enlisted ROTC cadets at the University of Michigan embarked on a journey to process the reality of D-Day.
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Ferroelectric semiconductor
Apr 10, 2023A new kind of transistor could shrink communications devices on smartphones. One month after announcing a ferroelectric semiconductor at the nanoscale thinness required for modern computing components, a team at U-M has demonstrated a reconfigurable transistor using that material.
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Tracking ocean microplastics from space
Apr 3, 2023New information about an emerging technique that could track microplastics from space has been uncovered by researchers at the University of Michigan. It turns out that satellites are best at spotting soapy or oily residue, and microplastics appear to tag along with that residue.
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Reviving the Lost Work of a Groundbreaking Black Composer
Mar 27, 2023Doctor of Musical Arts candidate Bryan Ijames followed his ear, his heart, and some scholarly detective work to resurrect a forgotten piece by composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
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A ‘game changer’ for mental health
Mar 20, 2023More than 3,200 doctors and other primary care providers across Michigan have been turning to a service called MC3 to help patients in need of mental health care. Based at the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry, MC3 acts like the "Phone-a-Friend" option on a popular game show.
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Giving Blueday
Mar 15, 2023Today is Giving Blueday, our online, 24-hour day of giving. This past year, we all found creative ways to make an impact on our world. Little moments of giving back. We all have something to give. Join in. Donate. Make a difference!
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Thomas Francis Jr. Medal
Mar 13, 2023World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus received U-M’s Thomas Francis Jr. Medal in Global Public Health on Monday, declaring that nations across the globe must learn from the mistakes made throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to better prepare for the future.
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Inauguration
Mar 7, 2023On Tuesday, March 7, 2023, delegates from colleges and universities around the world, members of the U-M Board of Regents, executive officers, deans, faculty members, staff, and students came together for the formal installation of Dr. Santa J. Ono as the 15th president of the University of Michigan.
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Dow Fellowship
Feb 27, 2023Teachers throughout the state of Michigan are taking part in the Dow Innovation Teacher Fellowship, a program created for K-12 teachers of all disciplines interested in teaching sustainability issues, while fostering and supporting links between schools, classrooms and communities.
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Harvesting Hydrogen
Feb 20, 2023U-M Engineering researchers have developed a method for improving the efficiency of Solar Water Splitting, a process that replicates photosynthesis by using the sun to separate hydrogen from water. By harvesting previously wasted infrared light, the researchers were able to accelerate the solar water splitting process, increasing the amount of hydrogen they were able to harvest.
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First in Class
Feb 13, 2023In the race of his life, Michigan senior Val Johnson made history as the first African American student to be elected president of his class.
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Boosting equality in craft brewing
Feb 6, 2023Fermenta was co-founded by Pauline Knighton-Prueter, a 2012 graduate of U-M, after she realized how few women were represented in the brewing and spirits field and started the advocacy group with two experienced brewers.
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Blindfolded Rubik’s Cube world champion
Jan 30, 2023The Rubik’s Cube. Many of us grew up finding the colorful 3×3 block to be an infuriating, and largely impossible, puzzle of frustration. But for one University of Michigan student, the cube opened doors to international travel, a Guinness World Records entry and multiple world championship titles.
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Visit The Plastic Bag Store
Jan 23, 2023Brooklyn-based artist Robin Frohardt, uses single-use plastics, organically harvested from streets and garbage dumps, stocks store shelves with thousands of original grocery items meticulously sculpted by hand and artfully repurposed to re-create a 6,000-square-foot supermarket.
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2023 MLK Symposium
Jan 14, 2023Around the theme of “The (R)evolution of MLK,” the keynote memorial lecture of the 2023 MLK Symposium will feature a panel discussion with Aletha Maybank, a physician and chief health equity officer and senior vice president for the American Medical Association, Edward Buckles, a film director and producer, and Jalen Rose, philanthropist and former U-M and NBA basketball star.
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Recycling previously unrecyclable plastic
Jan 9, 2023PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most produced plastics in the United States and the third highest by volume in the world. It also has a zero percent recycling rate in the United States.
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Michigan maritime
Jan 2, 2023A new law that gives Michigan’s 32 ports tools to expand and grow the maritime economy started out as a community project for a handful of University of Michigan students.
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Seeing electron movement
Dec 26, 2022The key to maximizing traditional or quantum computing speeds lies in our ability to understand how electrons behave in solids, and a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Regensburg captured electron movement in attoseconds—the fastest speed yet.
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Rebuilding Coastal Ecosystems
Dec 19, 2022LSA assistant professor Jacob Allgeier studies how nutrients and energy cycle through tropical ecosystems in order to better manage fisheries. The artificial reefs he’s building are an inexpensive, effective way to sustainably improve fisheries’ productivity. It’s important work, Allgeier says, “because people are hungry. It’s really that simple.”
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‘Tis the season
Dec 12, 2022The University of Michigan and the city of Ann Arbor always have something to see, hear or visit. If you find yourself in the area during the holidays, enjoy one of the many exhibitions and events taking place over the next month.
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