Research
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October 27, 2021
Study opens door to diverse participants in health studies
Wearable technology such as the Apple Watch is allowing researchers to recruit a more diverse group of participants to health and wellness studies, helping them better understand underlying health conditions.
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October 25, 2021
Study shows men, women share similar emotional highs and lows
U-M researchers found little to no differences in fluctuations in emotions between men and women, suggesting that men’s emotions fluctuate to the same extent as women’s, although likely for different reasons.
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October 20, 2021
Research initiative to spur collaboration on societal challenges
A new research initiative from the Office of the Vice President for Research will integrate social and technical sciences from across U-M to address societal challenges that intersect equity, health, infrastructure and sustainability.
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October 19, 2021
Fewer COVID-19 deaths in counties with intervention measures, more hospitals
Counties that banned in-person religious gatherings and those with a greater number of hospitals per capita were associated with a decreased case-fatality rate of COVID-19 during the pandemic’s first wave.
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October 19, 2021
New $13.8M center will study infectious diseases, pandemics
The U-M Biosciences Initiative is awarding $13.8 million over five years to the new Michigan Center for Infectious Disease Threats, to allow researchers to work across disciplines on infectious disease preparedness and response.
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October 13, 2021
Wayne County recovery expected to be strong but uneven
Wayne County has recovered most of its employment losses from the start of the pandemic, although the comeback varies among the kinds of jobs and between some of its affluent suburbs and the city of Detroit, according to a U-M study.
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October 6, 2021
U-M gets $1.9M to help better detect nuclear material
The Department of Homeland Security is giving researchers at U-M $1.9 million to find out what to look for when neutrons slip through the shielding around nuclear contraband.
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September 22, 2021
Study looks at grad students’ mental health stress
Graduate students suffer high rates of depression, anxiety and mental stress, studies show, but as labs reopen from COVID-19 shutdowns, changes can be implemented to address the problem, U-M researchers say.
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September 7, 2021
‘Robot assistants’ may help reinvent construction industry
With the aim of enabling robots to learn from human partners on construction sites, the National Science Foundation is providing $2 million to a university-led research team.
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September 1, 2021
Farm field find rewrites archaeological history in Michigan
An independent researcher along with U-M researchers have identified a 13,000-year-old Clovis camp site, now thought to be the earliest archaeological site in Michigan.
