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‘unipolar’ laser pulses
Jun 27, 2022A laser pulse that sidesteps the inherent symmetry of light waves could manipulate quantum information, potentially bringing us closer to room temperature quantum computing.
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Soccer in Motown
Jun 20, 2022The Detroit City Football Club, founded by U-M alum Alex Wright and four partners in 2011, is bringing communities together with its professional team and youth leagues. At the games, fans also give back to the broader community by donating clothes, health supplies and other basic needs to be distributed to homeless and other at-risk populations.
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Mastodon tusk chemical analysis
Jun 13, 2022Around 13,200 years ago, a roving male mastodon died in what today is northeast Indiana, nearly 100 miles from his home territory. The study also shows that the Buesching bull may have spent time exploring central and southern Michigan, which seems fitting for a creature whose full-size fiberglass-cast skeleton is on display at the U-M Museum of Natural History in Ann Arbor.
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Graphene-hBN breakthrough
Jun 6, 2022In a discovery that could speed research into next-generation electronics and LED devices, a University of Michigan research team has developed the first reliable, scalable method for growing single layers of hexagonal boron nitride on graphene.
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Math games
May 30, 2022Working closely with teachers and schools in Taylor, MI, and New York City, NY, High 5s, a math enrichment program developed at the U-M Youth Policy Lab, is hoping to close the achievement gap between low-income children and their peers. The program is based on studies showing that students with strong early math skills do better in both math and reading in later elementary school.
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Ancient grains
May 23, 2022The Kelsey Museum at the University of Michigan contains ancient grains and other food material from Karanis, Egypt, originally excavated by U-M in the 1920s. Working with universities from Belgium, U-M will study the material and reassess the notion that the ancient diet was predominantly malnourished.
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Smarter 3D printing
May 16, 20223D printers may soon get better at producing intricate metal and plastic parts, thanks to new software developed at the University of Michigan that reduces harmful heat buildup in laser powder bed fusion printers.
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Urban agriculture
May 10, 2022Gardens on Detroit’s Lower Eastside, which has one of the city’s highest vacancy levels, play an important role in reducing neighborhood blight and have the potential to provide other significant benefits to residents in the future, according to the new study.
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Hail to the comeback graduates!
May 7, 2022Anthony Fauci encouraged U-M’s Comeback Commencement crowd to challenge untruths and push back on the “egregious distortion of reality” that permeates social media and “so-called news organizations.”
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Hail! Class of 2022
Apr 30, 2022Congratulations 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 30. Other graduation celebrations are being held across campus through May 1. #MGoGrad
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The Dignity of Man
Apr 25, 2022With three U-M degrees, Dr. Paul Cornely devoted his life to championing equal health care for all, leading to the desegregation of America’s hospitals.
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K-12 Sustainability Fellowship
Apr 18, 2022The Dow Innovation Teacher Fellowship is a program created for K-12 teachers of all disciplines interested in teaching sustainability issues. The fellowship is the first program of the Andrew N. Liveris Institute, a partnership between the University of Michigan School of Education’s Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research; the Dow Company Foundation; and Delta College.
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A professor’s war for peace
Apr 11, 2022Still just a boy in 1921, the renowned mathematical psychologist Anatol Rapoport fled war-torn Ukraine on a pair of ice skates. At U-M, he would become an expert in the science of human conflict, contributing the ‘Tit for Tat’ strategy to the field of game theory.
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Return to beauty
Apr 4, 2022The MorningSide neighborhood is a 1.5-square mile community located on the eastside of Detroit. A plan called “Stabilizing MorningSide” provides tools and resources to build upon the assets of the community to strengthen its housing market and make it a neighborhood of choice again.
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Avian secret
Mar 28, 2022While it had been assumed that unstable gliding was the key to agility in bird flight, a collaboration between aerospace engineers at the University of Michigan and biologists at the University of British Columbia revealed that stability plays a role. The discovery could lead to the design of more agile aircraft, specifically uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs).
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Fit as a family
Mar 21, 2022When childhood obesity began to rise during the pandemic, U-M researcher Rebecca Hasson and her team adapted their classroom activity program, InPACT, so students could do it at home. Videos are designed to acclimate kids and their families to at-home fitness and feature 20-minute cardio routines developed and recorded at home by Michigan physical education teachers.
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Winter Grab
Mar 14, 2022U-M biogeochemist Casey Godwin’s team snowmobiled 5 miles from the shore of Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay to collect ice and to sample the lake water beneath it. More than 30 types of laboratory analyses will be performed on the water and ice as part of a larger effort—dubbed the Winter Grab—to better understand winter on the Great Lakes.
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Exciton surfing
Mar 14, 2022A quasiparticle that forms in semiconductors can now be moved around at room temperature, a University of Michigan-led study has shown. The finding could cool down computers, enabling faster speeds and higher efficiencies, and potentially make LEDs and solar panels more efficient.
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What’s inside a black hole?
Mar 7, 2022Holographic duality is a mathematical conjecture that connects theories of particles and their interactions with the theory of gravity. Enrico Rinaldi, research scientist in the University of Michigan Department of Physics, is using two simulation methods to solve quantum matrix models which can describe what the gravity of a black hole looks like.
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Memory problems
Feb 28, 2022During the pandemic, we lived more of our lives online and left less of a trace in the physical world. How can we make sure we preserve our significant digital moments? Professor Megan Ankerson explores what it means to memorialize our digital lives.
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Ancestor garden
Feb 21, 2022When U-M alumnus Douglas Jones, a Detroit-based artist, activist and community organizer, and his co-collaborator and fellow artist Errin Whitaker asked community members to contribute to the planting of the “Ancestor Posterity Butterfly Garden,” in Detroit, they had no idea how much it would be needed. Now it is helping the community come together to heal.
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Gift of Chinese calligraphy
Feb 14, 2022The Lo Chia-Lun Calligraphy Collection, donated by his daughter Jiu-Fong Lo Chang and her husband Kuei-sheng Chang, will transform the University of Michigan Museum of Art’s Asian art collection, adding an impressive breadth of works to an already stellar collection of Chinese paintings and ceramics.
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Global forest biodiversity
Feb 7, 2022A new study involving more than 100 scientists from across the globe and the largest forest database yet assembled estimates that there are about 73,000 tree species on Earth, including about 9,200 species yet to be discovered. The global estimate is about 14% higher than the current number of known tree species.
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Sustainable food network
Jan 31, 2022Frank Turchan, the executive chef at U-M Dining has been visiting markets, farms and fisheries across the state of Michigan to provide fresh, local and sustainable foods within the dining halls at U-M. Michigan Dining serves about 20,000 meals across nine dining halls on a daily basis, and all students have access to local produce and whitefish.
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Seers and Purveyors of Luck
Jan 24, 2022Dr. Zev Harel is a survivor of Auschwitz. He is a 1967 MSW graduate of the U-M School of Social Work. He is an evangelist of luck.
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