Entrepreneurship & Innovation
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February 17, 2015
Graduate students to pitch Detroit industrial redevelopment ideas
The 2015 U-M Social Impact Challenge Finals on Wednesday will evaluate graduate student proposals for creative redevelopment of an abandoned Detroit industrial site.
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February 12, 2015
U-M funds another round of engaged-learning projects
The university has awarded funding for another 18 projects under the Transforming Learning for a Third Century portion of the Third Century Initiative.
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February 12, 2015
Health care project gets $1.4M Third Century Initiative grant
U-M researchers have received a $1.4 million, three-year Phase II grant from the Third Century Initiative to develop, test and deploy health care technologies.
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February 11, 2015
U-M startup acquired by electrical services company
Electric Field Solutions, a U-M startup that uses technology developed to measure electric fields on Mars, has been acquired a gas and electrical industries service company.
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February 9, 2015
New campaign showcases student innovation across campus
A new university campaign to celebrate student innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship kicks off across campus Thursday with the ICE Winter Blast.
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January 26, 2015
Program helping young children learn to be makers
The School of Information’s Michigan Makers course gives U-M students practice with mentorship and helps elementary school students share the joy of making things by hand.
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January 21, 2015
MHacks shapes the hackathon culture it helped create
Since starting in 2013, MHacks has grown from a just-for-fun challenge to a sophisticated operation that is advancing the hackathon culture it helped to establish.
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January 20, 2015
Nominations for Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prizes due Feb. 2
The deadline is Feb. 2 for those who wish to nominate examples of outstanding teaching for the 2015 Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize.
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January 13, 2015
University’s M City will test driverless vehicles on North Campus
A 32-acre “mini-city,” designed expressly for testing connected and automated vehicle systems and other emerging 21st-century smart-city technologies, is taking shape on North Campus.
• U-M student develops lower-cost self-driving car navigation system
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December 16, 2014
U-M professors elected to National Academy of Inventors
Three U-M researchers — Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan, Stephen Forrest and Shaomeng Wang — have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.