College of Engineering
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January 24, 2025
Virtual quadcopter allows ‘unprecedented’ level of control
U-M researchers are helping develop a brain-computer interface that when surgically placed in a research participant with tetraplegia can provide control over a virtual quadcopter.
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January 23, 2025
Two faculty members and advocacy group to be honored
Two U-M faculty members and an advocacy group will be honored next month with the Sarah Goddard Power Award and Carol Hollenshead Inspire Awards for their efforts to support women, diversity and equity.
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January 22, 2025
University receives $2M to improve growth of AI models
A project led by U-M and funded by a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation could help topple the “memory wall,” which currently limits computing speed and the growth of artificial intelligence models
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January 21, 2025
New technology helps turn seawater into drinking water
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.
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January 16, 2025
Eight researchers from U-M win PECASE awards
Eight U-M researchers have received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a high honor the U.S. government bestows on scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers.
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January 15, 2025
Six postdoctoral researchers chosen for commercialization fellowships
Innovation Partnerships has announced the funding of six new Postdoctoral Commercialization Fellowships, based on the strong commercialization potential of the recipients’ doctoral research.
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January 14, 2025
$5M to improve testing of wave energy, offshore wind
Devices that create electricity from wave motion and offshore winds could become sturdier, quieter and easier to test at near-ocean-ready sizes, with four new grants totaling $5 million to U-M.
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December 11, 2024
Robert Bartlett, Zhen Xu elected to National Academy of Inventors
The National Academy of Inventors has selected faculty members Robert Bartlett and Zhen Xu as fellows, the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.
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December 5, 2024
Regents Roundup — December 2024
Other action items approved by the Board of Regents at its Dec. 5 meeting.
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November 14, 2024
$3M gift establishes Samir and Puja Kaul directorship at MICDE
Business leaders and philanthropists Samir and Puja Kaul have donated $3 million to support the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering. The institute’s directorship will be named for them.