Research
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September 29, 2016
University launches exercise and sport science initiative
U-M has launched the Exercise & Sport Science Initiative to optimize physical performance and health for athletes and exercisers of all ages and abilities.
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September 28, 2016
NIH grant addresses environmental influences on child health
U-M is part of a new research initiative to investigate how exposure to a range of environmental factors in early development influences the health of children and adolescents.
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September 26, 2016
Thumb-area teachers to help U-M scientists dig mastodon bones
Ten Thumb-area teachers will help U-M paleontologists unearth the remains of an 11,000- to 13,000-year-old mastodon next month in Tuscola County, Michigan.
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September 23, 2016
Horsepower versus fuel efficiency examined in bacterial genomes
Microbes that can reproduce rapidly in times of plenty have an evolutionary stockpile of extra genes that allows them to quickly respond to changing conditions such as oil spills or outbreaks of intestinal diseases.
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September 23, 2016
Scientists triple known types of viruses in world’s oceans
The world’s oceans teem with scientific mystery, unknowns that could prove to be tools that will one day protect the planet from global warming.
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September 23, 2016
Tech startup bets on slow water to power future
In a milestone that took more than a decade to reach, a U-M team is testing the first commercial-scale prototype of a device designed to generate electricity from slow-moving river and ocean currents. Called VIVACE, the device harnesses a phenomenon called flow-induced motion. It weighs 12 tons and it’s submerged in 26 feet of water.
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September 23, 2016
Mercury contamination prevalent in western North America
Mercury contamination is widespread across western North America in the air, soil, lake sediments, plants, fish and wildlife, according to an international research team that included a University of Michigan biologist.
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September 22, 2016
Ford School research shows a quiet crisis over K-12 class size
New research from the Education Policy Initiative at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy found many Michigan K-12 students experience very large core classes, but some are at greater risk.
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September 22, 2016
Kelsey Museum exhibit highlights beauty, importance of failure
“Less Than Perfect,” a new exhibit at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, explores how failures of past civilizations provide insight on production processes, ancient technologies and traditions.
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September 8, 2016
U-M, Yottabyte partner to accelerate data-intensive research
U-M and software company Yottabyte are partnering to provide a flexible computing cloud for complex computational analyses of sensitive and restricted data.
