Research
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
