Office of the Vice President for Research

  1. February 17, 2026

    Bold Challenges awards researchers exploring manufacturing and AI, future of food

    Bold Challenges has awarded seed funding to 14 U-M faculty teams to support projects that pursue solutions to food challenges and explore the intersection of AI and manufacturing.

  2. February 2, 2026

    U-M faculty, partners awarded state water research grants

    Research Universities for Michigan has awarded more than $400,000 in its initial round of Livable Futures Initiative Water Collaboration Grants.

  3. January 26, 2026

    Accolades — January 2026

    Awards and honors for faculty and staff from around the University of Michigan.

  4. January 20, 2026

    U-M announces new research funding program for federally reviewed proposals

    U-M is launching a new research funding program designed to support faculty whose federal grant proposals received strong peer-review evaluations but were not funded.

  5. December 19, 2025

    U-M, ASICS to launch groundbreaking sport innovation initiative

    U-M and ASICS will establish the ASICS x Michigan Sport Innovation Center, a pioneering research effort aimed at advancing human performance and sport science, through a new mutli-year research collaboration.

  6. November 24, 2025

    U-M, Argonne National Laboratory sign five-year partnership

    U-M and Argonne National Laboratory signed a memorandum of understanding on Nov. 20 that formalizes decades of collaboration between the two institutions.

  7. November 11, 2025

    U-M expanded research collaboration, partnerships in FY ’25

    U-M launched several new initiatives in FY ’25 to spur interdisciplinary research intended to help researchers who want to have broad social and economic impact.

  8. November 4, 2025

    Seven projects selected for first round of Building Better Futures grants

    A new grants program administered by the Office of the Vice President for Research has awarded nearly $500,000 across seven U-M faculty-led projects that advance interdisciplinary research teams.

  9. November 3, 2025

    Research Universities for Michigan launches seed funding grants

    U-M is part of a new initiative with research institutions across the state intended to address Michigan’s pressing environmental issues and related economic challenges.

  10. October 23, 2025

    AIIM summit unites leadership to chart university’s AI future

    The AI Institutes at Michigan recently brought together academic leadership from across all three campuses for a summit designed to shape U-M’s direction in artificial intelligence research, collaboration and policy.