Entrepreneurship & Innovation
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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.
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December 3, 2014
New U-M minor in entrepreneurship to start in January
An entrepreneurial education will be available to all U-M students beginning in January with a new 15-credit minor in entrepreneurship.
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December 2, 2014
1,000 Pitches winners part of national movement
The 1,000 Pitches contest, which began at U-M seven years ago, has grown to six campuses across the country, and this year it gathered more than 7,500 ideas.
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December 1, 2014
U-M engineering researchers develop heat-conducting plastic
A U-M research team has made a plastic blend that cast away heat 10 times better than its conventional counterparts.
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November 24, 2014
Tauber Institute workshops for factory floor managers draw praise
It’s not Hollywood. But the staged factory floor setting just 4 miles south of Central Campus and the workshops presented there are drawing great reviews. The Tauber Institute’s new Operations Leadership Factory workshops debuted in February.
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November 19, 2014
Secure, free encryption of all websites is goal of new project
In an effort to reinvent and dramatically improve Internet security, U-M researchers have joined an effort to soon offer free, automated and open website HTTPS encryption.
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November 7, 2014
U-M agrees to sell portion of Gaucher disease drug royalties
U-M has signed an agreement with PDL BioPharma Inc. to sell a portion of its royalty interest in Cerdelga capsules, a first-line oral treatment for adults with Gaucher disease type 1.
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November 4, 2014
Conference to focus on smartphones as aid to well-being
A spring conference will bring together scholars and tech experts to find ways to help build, market and deliver smartphone apps that provide “well-being” services.
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November 4, 2014
Smartphone delivery
While organizers of the Positive Tech conference focus their work on mobile delivery of well-being services, smartphones are proving to be valuable delivery tools and sources of data for researchers across campus in a number of other fields. Examples include: • U-M economists, working with colleagues at University of California, Berkeley and Arizona State University,…
