Research
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October 26, 2016
Poor young women at greater risk of unintended pregnancies
Poor women have fewer but longer relationships, use contraceptives less frequently and use less effective methods than women from more advantaged backgrounds, a new U-M study shows.
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October 20, 2016
Annual research funding rises to record $1.39 billion
The university’s total volume of research reached a record $1.39 billion in the 2016 fiscal year that closed June 30, a 7.2 percent increase from the previous year.
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October 18, 2016
Team recovers ‘most complete Michigan mastodon skeleton’ in decades
The most complete ice age mastodon skeleton found in Michigan since the 1940s was recovered this month from the state’s Thumb region by a team led by U-M researchers.
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October 17, 2016
U-M helps find solar system’s second-most distant minor planet
Astronomers at U-M and their colleagues on the Dark Energy Survey have discovered a new dwarf planet that’s more than 90 times farther from the sun than Earth.
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October 10, 2016
U-M, MSU, Wayne State collaborate to examine Flint water filters
Researchers from U-M, and Wayne State and Michigan State universities are conducting studies to determine the best ways to manage the type of point-of-use water filters being used by Flint residents.
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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
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 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.
