Research
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January 15, 2014
Grant to help Community College Summer Program double enrollment
For more than 25 years, the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program in LSA has offered students a chance to participate in high-level research early in their academic careers. Since 1988 more than 10,000 first and second-year students have worked on research projects with faculty and research scientists across campus. In 2007, the UROP Community College Summer… -
January 15, 2014
Gift to help Community College Summer Program double enrollment
A $450,000 gift will enable the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program’s Community College Summer Fellowship Program to double in size for the next three years.
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January 14, 2014
University researchers estimate best time to launch a cyber attack
U-M researchers have developed new ways to analyze Internet security risks by creating a mathematical model that can predict when a cyber attack may be launched.
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January 13, 2014
Most students are targets of food and beverage marketing at school
Most public elementary, middle and high school students are exposed to some kind of commercial marketing efforts at their schools, a new study shows.
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January 9, 2014
Planes, trains and automobiles: Traveling by car uses most energy
Fuel economy must improve 57 percent in order for light-duty vehicles to match the current energy efficiency of commercial airline flights, a U-M researcher says.
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January 8, 2014
Millions of lives saved since surgeon general’s 1964 tobacco warning
An estimated 8 million lives have been saved in the United States as a result of smoking measures that began 50 years ago this month, according to a Yale-led study co-authored by three U-M School of Public Health researchers.
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January 7, 2014
U-M reaches milestone in transferring Native American remains
U-M has completed the transfer of nearly half of its collections of Native American human remains and cultural objects from burial sites in Michigan to tribes that lived in the areas where they were found.
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December 18, 2013
Study indicates teens more cautious about using synthetic drugs
The use of synthetic marijuana by the nation’s teens dropped substantially this year, and a sharply increasing proportion of them see great risk in using so-called “bath salts,” according to the annual Monitoring the Future study.
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December 18, 2013
Teen smoking continues to decline in 2013, annual survey shows
Smoking among teens in grades eight, 10 and 12 continued to decline in 2013, the annual Monitoring the Future survey shows.
• 44 percent of adults worry e-cigarettes will encourage kids to start smoking tobacco, a new UMHS poll shows.
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December 13, 2013
Many older Americans rely on people, devices, other strategies to get by
Only about a third of Americans ages 65 and older are fully able to take care of themselves and go about their daily lives completely independently, according to a new study published online in the American Journal of Public Health.
