Featured Stories
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Safe, Prepared and Ready to Go Blue!
Aug 10, 2020All U-M students who are returning to campus this fall are following a series of new protocols and making a commitment to care for themselves while respecting the health of others. Important safety measures include enhanced social distancing, pre-arrival testing, and test, isolation and quarantine plans.
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A new robotic prosthetic leg
Aug 3, 2020A new robotic prosthetic leg prototype offers a more natural gait while also being quieter and more energy efficient than other designs. The key is the use of new small and powerful motors, originally designed for a robotic arm on the International Space Station.
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Michigan coyotes
Jul 27, 2020For Michigan coyotes, “What’s for dinner” depends on what the neighbors are having. Coyotes in most of the Lower Peninsula are the “top dogs” in the local food chain, but in the Upper Peninsula, coyotes coexist with gray wolves and play a subordinate role in the food web.
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Mail Art
Jul 20, 2020At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent canceled in-person classes, arts faculty at U-M were forced to rethink their curriculum beyond the studio. While most classes relied on new technologies for course adjustments, Toby Millman turned to a more tried and true resource: the United States Postal Service.
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MAGNIFYING THE MICROAMAZON
Jul 13, 2020Deep in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, microorganisms are thriving within a river so hot, it boils. U-M graduate student Rosa Vásquez is exploring the Boiling River’s ecosystem, searching for genetic clues that explain how these organisms have evolved to survive in their scalding surroundings.
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Tiny brains, big surprise
Jul 6, 2020Paper wasps eavesdrop on fighting rivals to rapidly assess potential opponents without personal risk. This new finding adds to mounting evidence that even mini-brained insects have an impressive capacity to learn, remember and make social deductions about others.
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A virtual visit to the museum
Jun 29, 2020With doors still closed, University of Michigan’s three major museums both prepare for the future and continue to engage visitors “at home.”
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Our plans for Fall
Jun 22, 2020U-M will offer a mixture of in-person and remote classes structured to reflect our commitment to promoting public health while fulfilling our fundamental mission of transformative education.
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Gyroscope for navigating without GPS
Jun 15, 2020A small, inexpensive and highly accurate gyroscope, developed at the University of Michigan, could help drones and autonomous cars stay on track without a GPS signal.
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Seven Last Words of the Unarmed
Jun 5, 2020Though the song and accompanying documentary premiered nearly five years ago, the recent deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor have led many to revisit or discover the work for the first time. “It is unreal to me that we worked on this project so long ago, yet somehow resonates even more now than it did then…” said Eugene Rogers.
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Giving respectful help to reach goals
Jun 1, 2020For more than 30 years, U-M alumna Amy Good, CEO of Alternatives For Girls, has dedicated herself to helping girls and young women in crisis or at-risk for abuse, homelessness or human trafficking. Makiya, an AFG participant, found a job through the program and is staying in the shelter space.
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Local farms, stores fill gap for groceries
May 25, 2020Reports of wasted milk and rotting onions no longer needed by restaurants showed the limitations of the food industry to quickly pivot during times of great stress, but local farms and stores have stepped in to fill consumers needs.
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U-M photography students document their lives in quarantine
May 18, 2020“Earn the trust of a stranger, and work with them to document the essence of a day in their life over the course of five weeks.” The parameters of the project quickly changed in March when U-M announced plans to move classes online and encouraged students to return home in order to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Helping, learning in Kenya
May 11, 2020Before the global pandemic reached Kenya, 30 University of Michigan students immersed themselves in the east African country in a learning and service journey. This team of U-M faculty and students in dentistry, medicine, pharmacy and engineering work together on programs to improve health care and overall community health around Meru, in central Kenya.
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Hail! Class of 2020
May 1, 2020Congratulations to all of the U-M students who earned their degrees this spring. We appreciate the work you have done to earn a University of Michigan degree, and the sacrifices made by you and your families. #MGoGrad
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Rewriting the Monarch Story
Apr 27, 2020Every winter millions of monarchs migrate to the same places in Mexico. But do we actually know just how they do it? LSA Professor D. André Green wants to find out.
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seismometer captures eerie quiet during pandemic
Apr 20, 2020A vibration-sensing seismometer originally installed in Michigan Stadium to measure ground shaking from fans during home football games has been repurposed to capture the quiet on campus and on surrounding city streets during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Engineers work to disinfect N95 masks
Apr 13, 2020U-M engineers are working quickly to develop efficient, effective and scalable ways to disinfect masks, which are typically discarded after one use. As part of the effort, they’re testing whether the masks still work—and fit well—after repeated rounds of treatment. A viable means of getting multiple uses from masks would help protect doctors and nurses until more masks can be produced.
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Energy independence in Puerto Rico
Apr 6, 2020The stakes are high for this U-M team that traveled 2,000 miles from Ann Arbor to Adjuntas. In collaboration with the local nonprofit Casa Pueblo, they hope to bring energy independence to “The City of the Sleeping Giant.” Retrofitting the generator and setting up the gasifier is one of the key components in this project.
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Stone-age ‘likes’
Mar 30, 2020In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, U-M paleolithic archeologist Brian Stewart and colleagues establish that the practice of exchanging eggshell beads over long distances spans a much longer period of time than previously thought.
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Faster screening to hit “undruggable” targets
Mar 23, 2020Medicines made from coiled protein fragments could provide a new handle on hard-to-treat diseases like cancer, but they are difficult to design. A new technique, developed at the University of Michigan, could change that. It can harness bacteria to produce billions of different drug candidates that won’t fall apart quickly inside the body.
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Launching Solar Orbiter
Mar 16, 2020For more than a decade, a U-M team helped develop the scientific payload aboard Solar Orbiter. For colleagues Sue Lepri and Jim Raines, this moment has been 13 years in the making.
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An ultra-precise mind-controlled prosthetic
Mar 10, 2020In a major advance in mind-controlled prosthetics for amputees, U-M researchers have tapped faint, latent signals from arm nerves and amplified them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.
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Ultimate Time Keeper
Mar 7, 2020Feeling the effects of springing forward? U-M researcher Sara Aton gives tips about how to train your body clock for the time change. Good news: It involves snacks.
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Women Who Weld
Mar 2, 2020Samantha Farrugia was studying for her master’s degree in urban planning at U-M in 2014 when she walked past the Digital Fabrication Lab on her way to class one day and saw welding going on. Within weeks, Farrugia was learning to weld in her spare time. She moved on to learning how to train other people to weld through an unusual independent study supported by a U-M professor in the lab.
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