Department of Energy

  1. 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.

  2. January 10, 2025

    Monica Dus to direct new Office of National Laboratories

    U-M has created a new office to support its partnerships with U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, with Monica Dus, associate professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, to be the office’s director.

  3. May 15, 2024

    $15M to fund U-M, Los Alamos National Laboratory collaboration

    A five-year, $15 million award will fund a partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory and U-M to address critical challenges.

  4. September 25, 2023

    University part of federal DOE grant to diversify physics

    U-M is among three universities that have received a $1.125 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to recruit students of diverse backgrounds into the field of physics.

  5. April 25, 2023

    U-M’s renewable energy zoning initiative expands to six states

    An expanded renewable energy zoning database from U-M helps simplify matchmaking between renewable energy developers and communities in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.

  6. July 18, 2022

    College of Engineering awarded $5.1M to advance nuclear energy

    The College of Engineering’s Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences has received $5.1 million for three projects to advance nuclear technology.

  7. December 1, 2021

    $3.4M to turn up the heat at solar-thermal plants

    The U.S. Department of Energy is providing $3.4 million to a pair of U-M projects that are working to improve heat-trapping materials for solar thermal energy.

  8. November 15, 2018

    $1.6M funds solar cell windows, high-temperature solar power

    Electricity-generating windows and high-temperature solar power are the aims of two new U-M projects, funded with $1.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy.

  9. October 3, 2018

    U-M project gets $2M to help perfect algae as diesel fuel

    With $2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, U-M researchers aim to make the long-touted promise of algae as a biofuel source for diesel engines into a reality.