Research

  1. November 4, 2014

    Smartphone delivery

    While organizers of the Positive Tech conference focus their work on mobile delivery of well-being services, smartphones are proving to be valuable delivery tools and sources of data for researchers across campus in a number of other fields. Examples include: • U-M economists, working with colleagues at University of California, Berkeley and Arizona State University,…
  2. November 3, 2014

    Environmental influences on autism is focus of $1.6M federal grant

    University researchers will use a new $1.6 million federal grant to probe potential social and environmental links to autism, collecting location-specific information from tens of thousands of affected individuals and their families nationwide.

  3. November 3, 2014

    Don’t Miss: Advanced computing is the focus of research symposium

    The Fall 2014 Research Computing Symposium organized by the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering features leaders in scientific computing from U-M and around the country.

  4. October 31, 2014

    Auto companies continue to exceed fuel economy standards

    In the three years since a new standard for gas mileage has been in effect, automakers have surpassed it each year, improving new-vehicle fuel economy by about a mile per gallon annually.

  5. October 31, 2014

    Self-driving vehicles generate enthusiasm, concerns worldwide

    Despite safety concerns about equipment failure, a majority of drivers on three continents have high expectations for autonomous vehicles.

  6. October 30, 2014

    New U-M institute to measure impact of university research

    U-M has launched a new initiative that will coordinate nationwide efforts to measure the economic and scientific impact of the more than $65 billion spent on research each year at the nation’s universities.

  7. October 29, 2014

    Green tech saves energy and boosts factory profits, productivity

    Switching to LED lights in factories not only saves energy, it boosts productivity and increases profits, a new study shows.

  8. October 24, 2014

    Facetless crystals could advance 3D-printing pills

    In a design that mimics a hard-to-duplicate texture of starfish shells, University of Michigan engineers have made rounded crystals that have no facets.

  9. October 24, 2014

    Measures to avoid hospital readmission often don’t work

    Health care interventions designed to keep patients from having to be readmitted to the hospital are proving unsuccessful, a researcher from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a colleague have found.

  10. October 24, 2014

    Teens playing high-contact sports at risk for using drugs, alcohol

    Teens who play sports like football, wrestling, hockey or lacrosse are more likely to drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes or marijuana than student athletes who play noncontact sports, according to a new University of Michigan study.