Entrepreneurship & Innovation
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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,… -
October 20, 2014
Passive greenhouse project brings hope to Detroit neighborhood
In a Detroit neighborhood shared by Bangladeshi, Polish immigrants, longtime African-American residents and young artists, a burned-out house is being repurposed as a semi-subterranean, passive geothermal greenhouse that will serve the neighborhood.
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October 9, 2014
MCubed research-funding experiment renewed for two years
MCubed, the university’s one-of-a-kind funding program designed to spark innovative, cross-boundary research, will be renewed for two more years.
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October 6, 2014
2014 a record-breaking year for U-M Tech Transfer
Fiscal year 2014 was a record-breaking year for U-M tech transfer performance as reflected in the number of new inventions, agreements and startups.
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September 23, 2014
Campuswide call issued to develop massive open online courses
Leaders from the new Office of Digital Education and Innovation are calling on faculty to submit proposals to develop massive open online courses, or MOOCs.
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September 17, 2014
Popular Science puts U-M engineer on its Brilliant Ten list
Prabal Dutta, a U-M engineering professor whose work on energy-scavenging sensors could help herald the Internet of Things, is one of Popular Science magazine’s Brilliant Ten.
• Julia Adler-Milstein among 10 Influential Women in Health IT
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September 5, 2014
Connected and automated vehicle project names founding partners
A diverse group of companies will be the founding partners in U-M’s Mobility Transformation Center, which aims to revolutionize the movement of people and goods.
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September 4, 2014
MHacks sparks national college hackathon movement
An expected 1,000 student hackers from across the country will be on North Campus on Friday for MHacks IV, a leading student-run hackathon.
