Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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

     

    • UMTRI part of nationwide study on safety of older drivers

  10. 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.