Research

  1. November 10, 2025

    Grant to improve interactive VR and AR for therapeutic games

    Rather than let lag stand in the way of potentially therapeutic virtual and augmented reality games, a U-M team is leading an effort to minimize it.

  2. November 10, 2025

    Golden opportunity: How nutrients help plants defend themselves

    The Howard lab is better understanding how soil nutrient levels in a system can influence the evolution of plant defense strategies.

  3. November 6, 2025

    Fishes, young and old, are shrinking in Michigan’s inland lakes

    A new study led by U-M shows that changes in climate are also changing the size of fishes in Michigan’s inland lakes.

  4. November 4, 2025

    Seven projects selected for first round of Building Better Futures grants

    A new grants program administered by the Office of the Vice President for Research has awarded nearly $500,000 across seven U-M faculty-led projects that advance interdisciplinary research teams.

  5. November 3, 2025

    Research Universities for Michigan launches seed funding grants

    U-M is part of a new initiative with research institutions across the state intended to address Michigan’s pressing environmental issues and related economic challenges.

  6. November 3, 2025

    U-M survey: Optimistic Detroiters more likely to vote

    Detroiters who view the city as headed in the right direction are more likely to vote in the Nov. 4 election than those who think the city is on the wrong track.

  7. November 3, 2025

    It Happened at U-M: Researchers helped create the first flu vaccine

    In the early 1940s, the Ann Arbor campus became a leading research site for a vaccine to prevent influenza. The disease had killed an estimated 50 million people during a worldwide pandemic 20 years earlier.

  8. October 29, 2025

    $2.5M aluminum research partnership aims to expand use

    Advances in aluminum recycling that can help secure U.S. supply chains are the focus of a new five-year, $2.5 million research partnership between U-M and Norway-based company Hydro.

  9. October 28, 2025

    U-M research shows ‘carbon hoofprint’ of meat consumption

    Depending on where you live in the United States, the meat you eat each year could be responsible for a level of greenhouse gas emissions that’s similar to what’s emitted to power your house.

  10. October 23, 2025

    Study examines common hospice drugs, dementia death risk

    A U-M study finds that medications commonly prescribed to ease symptoms such as agitation, anxiety, and delirium may carry major unintended risks for people with dementia receiving hospice care.