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Healthy schools
Nov 28, 2022Project Healthy Schools is a community and U-M collaboration designed to reduce childhood obesity and improve the current and future health of Michigan's youth.
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Management as a calling
Nov 21, 2022University of Michigan Ross professor, Andy Hoffman, recently took a cohort of business students to U-M’s Biological Station on Douglas Lake in Northern Michigan. The goal for the lakeside retreat: to remove distractions, encourage reflection, and embrace a moral compass to explore professions that promote commerce and serve society.
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Leadership address
Nov 17, 2022At his first Leadership Welcome, President Santa J. Ono shared details about the strategic vision that will define the first few years of his presidency. He outlined transformative initiatives ranging from efforts to amplify U-M’s research and scholarship activity to new opportunities for staff development; and from new sustainability developments to socially conscious investing.
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Great Lakes Climate Migration
Nov 14, 2022Communities in the Great Lakes region need to start planning now for a future that may include “climate migrants” who leave behind increasingly frequent natural disasters in other parts of the country. And user-friendly web-based tools can be a central part of that planning process.
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Student veteran
Nov 7, 2022When John Brown was researching master of business administration programs, there were three key factors that he was weighing: “culture, credibility, resources.” For Brown, who’s still active with the Marine Corps, “culture was going to be the defining factor” in ultimately selecting the Ross School of Business to pursue an MBA.
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Dinosaur-killing asteroid
Oct 31, 2022Three generations of U-M scientists studied the tsunami caused by a dinosaur-killing asteroid impact. The team presented the first global simulation of the Chicxulub impact tsunami to be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
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Imperiled coral reefs
Oct 24, 2022Coral reefs are being impacted by myriad stressors leading to drastic changes to their structure and function. Fishes play essential roles in driving ecosystem processes on coral reefs but the extent to which these processes are emergent at temporal or ecosystem scales is poorly understood. A new study provides compelling new evidence that fish don’t regulate coral over time.
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Creature feature
Oct 18, 2022U-M alumnus Charlie Engelman has amassed 1.6 million followers on TikTok with his wildly entertaining take on slimy and sublime dead creatures. He informs his audience with fun facts utilizing U-M’s research collections as he teaches his way around jars full of spiny fish, blood-sucking sea creatures, and more.
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The Ono era begins
Oct 14, 2022Santa J. Ono, the University’s 15th president, says, ‘My most important first job is to listen to the community. They understand what's special about Michigan and that has to inform what I'm going to do.’
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ZEUS laser
Oct 10, 2022The laser that will be the most powerful in the U.S. is preparing to send its first pulses into an experimental target at U-M. Called ZEUS, the Zetawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System, it will explore the physics of the quantum universe as well as outer space, and it is expected to contribute to new technologies in medicine, electronics and national security.
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From garden to growth
Oct 3, 2022Raquel Garcia, executive director for Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision, said the long-standing relationship between U-M and SDEV has helped to support the garden through grants, plants from the Campus Farm and technical support.
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Cosmic Dust
Sep 26, 2022Professor Jim Cogswell’s adhesive vinyl installations have delighted the U‑M community and visitors to our campus for years. In 2022, Cogswell brings these explorations to international audiences in Athens, Greece and Santo Tirso, Portugal with two site-specific installations.
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Victors for Veterans
Sep 19, 2022Over the past decade, students and faculty from the U-M School of Dentistry have provided free dental care valued at about $1.7 million to more than 480 veterans throughout the state of Michigan. The Victors for Veterans clinics, or V4V, are providing a much-needed service because the military doesn't cover dental treatments for most veterans.
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Climate change
Sep 12, 2022Even relatively modest climate warming and associated precipitation shifts may dramatically alter Earth’s northernmost forests, which constitute one of the planet’s largest nearly intact forested ecosystems and are home to a big chunk of the planet’s terrestrial carbon.
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Football Super-fan
Sep 5, 2022Words cannot express Art Vuolo Jr.’s passion for Michigan football, but his massive archive says it all. This season marks Vuolo’s 43rd year recording the Wolverine game-day experience, from on-the-field action and untelevised half-time shows to on-the-field awards ceremonies and rare moments in the booth. Vuolo’s collection is slated for the Bentley one day.
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Urban planning
Aug 29, 2022U-M urban planning students have been working closely with low-income communities to help combat Brazil’s severe affordable housing deficit and promote environmental stewardship.
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Welcome Back
Aug 22, 2022The excitement in the air in Ann Arbor is palpable. U‑M students are back in town and ready to start the new school year. There are a variety of Welcome Week events happening across campus to help students get back into the swing of things.
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EV battery testing
Aug 15, 2022Testing the longevity of new electric vehicle battery designs could be four times faster with a streamlined approach, researchers at U-M have shown. Their optimization framework could drastically reduce the cost of assessing how battery configurations will perform over the long haul.
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College confidant
Aug 8, 2022Through the Michigan College Advising Corps a diverse group of recent U-M graduates works full-time as college advisers in under-served high schools throughout the state of Michigan to help students navigate every aspect of the college application process and identify their best fit among post-secondary options.
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New drug delivery
Aug 1, 2022A new study from U-M describes one of the first entirely new drug delivery microencapsulation approaches in decades. Microencapsulation in biodegradable polymers allows drugs such as peptide therapeutics to be released over time in the body.
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Detroit’s Riverwalk
Jul 25, 2022The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy was created in 2003 with the mission of developing access on the Detroit River. The entire vision is 5.5 miles of riverfront from the Ambassador Bridge to Gabriel Richard Park just east of the Belle Isle Bridge, and includes the construction of a continuous RiverWalk along with plazas, pavilions and green spaces.
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Northern Michigan
Jul 18, 2022From the Big House to the Mackinac Bridge, the impact of University of Michigan research, faculty, staff, alumni, and students spans far beyond the borders of our three campuses. Learn more about U-M’s Up North Impact and the Board of Regents July 21 meeting in St. Ignace.
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Santa J. Ono named 15th president
Jul 13, 2022With a unanimous vote of the Board of Regents, Santa J. Ono was appointed the 15th president of the University of Michigan. The vote took place during a special meeting of the board in University Hall.
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A bold experiment
Jul 11, 2022When UM-Dearborn alum Heyam Alcodray took over as Fordson High School’s principal, she came in with a vision that dared to ask the very basic, but also very bold question, “What's the point of a high school education anyway?”
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Crowdsourcing a time machine
Jul 4, 2022Housed at the University of Michigan William L. Clements Library, the David V. Tinder real-photo postcard collection offers a vivid look back into the everyday experience of 19th- and 20th-century Michiganders. More than 60,000 photos strong, the collection captures nearly every aspect of life in every county in the state, from mining and agriculture to domestic life, leisure, and portraiture.
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