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February 10, 2025

First taste of lawyering

As first-year law students navigate their first semester in classes, they know experiential offerings, from externships to pro bono service, await them in their 2L and 3L years. But the opportunity to put their learning into practice comes sooner for a select group of students working in the 1L Advocacy Clinic. In this photo, Julianna Lee (right), clinical assistant professor of law, helps students Grace Martin (left) and Rana Thabata learn to apply the law as they worked on an immigration case. (Photo by Dustin Johnston, Law School)

AI and health care

Given its capacity to quickly analyze vast amounts of data, artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize health care delivery. With this comes a need for more interdisciplinary research and collaboration to inform policy and practice that will ensure safe and ethical use of AI tools. This video highlights how researchers at U-M’s Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation are exploring and shaping the many facets of AI application in health and health care.

Learn more about AI-related research IHPI experts are conducting

February 4, 2025

Braiding heritage and education

The Indigenous Education Youth Collective program, a research-practice partnership among U‑M, Anishinaabe youth and families, and Lake Superior State University, supports Native American preteens, teens and their families in the Upper Peninsula by blending cultural heritage with academic opportunities. In this video, students and leaders talk about the collective, its goals and programs.

February 3, 2025

Stress as a lifesaver

Faced with relentless drought, capuchin monkeys showcased their resilience and provided the first data from wild primates to suggest that a stronger stress response promotes survival. U-M researchers measured hormone levels in capuchins to decode how the stress response helps them weather environmental challenges. This video highlights the research.

Read more about stress response in capuchin monkeys

January 30, 2025

‘Cracks in the pavement’

A $495,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to UM-Flint will allow the exploration and cataloging of Flint’s democratic practices through an interdisciplinary lens. During the winter and fall 2026 semesters, selected faculty members will participate in workshops to develop new curricula and course-related learning modules focused on rethinking the public sphere and democratic engagement. This video shares highlights from the inaugural Dancing in the Streets festival in 2023. The festival will return in 2026 and 2027 as part of the grant activities.

Read more about the Mellon Foundation grant and its impact

January 28, 2025

Transportation insecurity

This photo of a busy I-96 freeway in suburban Detroit illustrates findings from a new study that shows more than a third of Detroit residents can’t get from place to place in a safe or timely manner. The study was led by Alexandra Murphy, associate director of social science research at Mcity and assistant research scientist at U-M’s Poverty Solutions, and Lydia Wileden, a U-M alumna and assistant research professor at the University of Connecticut. (Photo by Marcin Szczepanski, College of Engineering)

Read a Q&A about this study

January 23, 2025

Younger drivers, fatigue and AVs

Bochen Jia, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at UM-Dearborn (right), and graduate student Darlington Egeonu check out the driving simulator Jia used for his most recent project. Jia’s latest research is revealing some surprising things about how fatigue can impact younger, inexperienced drivers when they’re operating semi-autonomous vehicles. (Photo by Annie Barker, UM-Dearborn)

Turning seawater into drinking water

Jovan Kamcev, assistant professor of chemical engineering and of macromolecular science and engineering in the College of Engineering, inserts a carbon cloth electrode into a flow cell for water desalination. Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water, according to a new study by U-M and Rice University researchers. The work could save desalination plants billions of dollars annually. (Photo by Marcin Szczepanski, College of Engineering)

Read more about the desalination research

January 21, 2025

Circle of Unity

Attendees hold hands and sing along to “We Shall Overcome” to close out the annual MLK SYmposium’s Circle of Unity event. The Jan. 20 event moved from the Diag to the LSA Building Atrium due to cold weather. (Photo by Christina Merrill, Michigan Photography)

View a gallery of images from the event

January 20, 2025

“An example worthy of imitation”

In the fall of 1850, the first students entered the Medical School’s brand-new building on the Diag and began their studies under its first faculty of six. The school, and all of Michigan Medicine, will celebrate its 175th anniversary throughout 2025. This video highlights some of its early “firsts.”

Read more about the Medical School’s anniversary