Research
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April 1, 2016
Diabetes treatment solutions needed for older Native Americans
Older American Indians face barriers accessing health care, but little was known about whether or not these barriers relate to management of type 2 diabetes — a major health concern in Native American communities.
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April 1, 2016
Eating red meat linked to earlier onset of girls’ menstrual cycles
Girls who eat red meat often start their periods on average five months earlier than those who don’t.
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March 31, 2016
Personality influences how one reacts to email errors
When reading emails, do you become the “grammar police”? This behavior is partly the result of personality traits, according to U-M linguistics experts.
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March 28, 2016
Buckling up helps save others, not just yourself, study shows
If you think that not wearing a seat belt affects only yourself, think again, say researchers at the U-M Transportation Research Institute.
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March 25, 2016
A better 3-D camera with clear, graphene light detectors
A camera that can record 3-D images and video is under development at the University of Michigan, with $1.2 million in funding from the W.M. Keck Foundation.
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March 24, 2016
Medical marijuana reduces use of opioid pain medications
Patients using medical marijuana to control chronic pain reported a 64 percent reduction in their use of more traditional prescription pain medications known as opioids, a U-M study finds.
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March 21, 2016
Brief summaries of each Flint research project
Empowering Flint Youth Through Digital Storytelling: A Case Study The project is a collaboration among teachers at UM-Flint, UM-Dearborn, the Ann Arbor campus and the Genesee Early College at the Genesee Intermediate School District. The project will focus on teaching journalism and digital storytelling techniques to Flint students as part of a summer class on… -
March 16, 2016
High-tech bird watching for shape-shifting airplane wings
A $6 million grant from the Air Force will an international team of researchers produce the most detailed analysis of bird flight ever made for an aerospace engineering project.
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March 14, 2016
Research shows lead exposure can increase chance for obesity
Exposure to lead during early development can alter the gut microbiota, increasing the chances for obesity in adulthood, researchers from the School of Public Health have found.
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March 14, 2016
Study indicates Lake Huron’s Chinook salmon fishery unlikely to recover
Lake Huron’s Chinook salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the lake can no longer support the predatory fish’s main food source, the herring-like alewife, U-M research shows.
