Research
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March 5, 2021
Five U-M teams in biomedical STAT Madness Tournament
Throughout the month of March, 64 discoveries from schools and colleges across the country will compete in the annual STAT Madness tournament. This year, U-M is fielding five research teams.
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February 26, 2021
Project-based learning yields better student outcomes, studies show
Students in project-based learning classrooms across the United States significantly outperform those in typical classrooms, according to studies announced by Lucas Education Research, and five universities, including U-M.
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February 24, 2021
Sleep vital to associating emotion with memory, study shows
U-M researchers have been studying how memories associated with a specific sensory event are formed and stored in mice. They found that neurons activated by the visual stimulus keep more active during subsequent sleep.
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February 16, 2021
Ride-sharing services linked to increase in binge drinking
Ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft might help decrease drunk driving accidents and deaths, but they also are associated with an increase in binge drinking, according to a new study.
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February 16, 2021
Sloan fellowships awarded to four U-M researchers
Four U-M researchers — mathematician Alexander Perry, earth scientist Sierra Petersen, neuroscientist Swathi Yadlapalli and physicist Liuyan Zhao — have been named Sloan Research Fellows for 2021.
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February 15, 2021
U-M further expands research activity on all three campuses
Research and scholarship activity, which has been ramping up from previous COVID-19 restrictions, can safely expand further across U-M’s Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses.
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February 8, 2021
U-M sponsored research projects add $5.9B to economy since ’02
U-M’s research enterprise contributed $5.9 billion to the national economy over the past 18 years — $1.8 billion of which supported Michigan-based companies, according to the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science.
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February 2, 2021
County by county, study shows social inequality in COVID’s toll
COVID-19 has killed more than 400,000 Americans, and infected more than 24 million others. But a new study shows just how unevenly those deaths and cases have played out across the country.
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February 2, 2021
Study helps quantify CO2 emissions from virtual conferences
Virtual conferencing that has replaced large, in-person gatherings in the age of COVID-19 represents a drastic reduction in carbon emissions, but those online meetings still have environmental costs, U-M research shows.
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February 1, 2021
Holiday public health measures likely saved lives in state, researchers say
Increased social distance measures over Thanksgiving and Christmas might have prevented more than 100,000 coronavirus cases in Michigan, according to preliminary findings by the School of Public Health.
