Research

  1. May 6, 2020

    Study considers ways to help international student teaching assistants

    International graduate teaching assistants need additional support to prepare them to evaluate the work of undergraduates in large introductory STEM courses, new U-M research shows.

  2. April 22, 2020

    Releasing older prisoners with violent records poses little crime risk

    A U-M study indicates that many prisoners with violent records are actually at little risk of committing further crime — especially the older prisoners most at risk from COVID-19.

  3. April 13, 2020

    MIDAS offers special round of funding for COVID-19 research

    The Michigan Institute for Data Science is offering a special round of mini-grant funding for COVID-19 research projects. Proposals are due April 28. Up to 10 projects will receive up to $30,000.

  4. April 9, 2020

    Virtual town hall to focus on research operations amid COVID-19

    Research leadership from across the university will host a virtual town hall April 14 to answer questions and provide guidance on research operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

  5. April 6, 2020

    Wide range of U-M research focuses on coronavirus pandemic

    Research projects and innovations related to COVID-19 have ramped up quickly across U-M, spurred by doctors, public health experts, scientists, economists and engineers, and encouraged by research leaders.

  6. April 6, 2020

    COVID-19 research at U-M

    Examples of some of the studies underway or planned at the University of Michigan related to the COVID-19 health crisis.

  7. April 5, 2020

    Common coronaviruses are highly seasonal, U-M study shows

    Four human coronaviruses that cause common respiratory infections are sharply seasonal and appear to transmit similarly to influenza, but researchers can’t say if the virus causing COVID-19 will behave similarly.

  8. April 5, 2020

    U-M teams work to disinfect masks for medical personnel

    Teams of U-M engineers are working to develop efficient, effective and scalable ways to disinfect N95 respirator masks for repeated use. The masks are needed to medical workers from COVID-19.

  9. March 30, 2020

    COVID-19 pandemic disrupts U-M research projects far and wide

    As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, a wide variety of U-M research projects are feeling the effects. Here are just a few of those individual researchers who have been affected.

  10. March 20, 2020

    Study: Containment appears to step down COVID-19 spread

    The actions many communities are taking to slow the spread of COVID-19 may be shrinking deaths in a pattern that brings together nature, art and math, according to a new study from U-M.