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Help eradicate the virus of racism

As scientists and engineers, we have an obligation to focus on solving this big societal problem. | Medium Read

Shilva Shrestha, Environmental Engineering PhD Student, has her temperature checked by Bryan Daniels, DPSS Quartermaster, at the entrance the G.G. Brown Building on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on May 26, 2020.

Lights in the labs – and eyes – of researchers coming back to work

'Noncritical' in-person research begins ramping up, with public-health protocols. | Medium Read

The public-facing dashboard uses a color-coded map of the state with breakdowns by region and county.

Web app, dashboard from U-M to inform Michiganders’ return to work

The web tools will help state officials identify potential hotspots as they reopen Michigan to business. | Medium Read

Platform to help transition K-12 curricula online

Autonomous delivery robots helping local restaurants through pandemic

Defending his PhD remotely in a global pandemic

These diagrams of cell counts show how immune cell profiles differ between young mice and old mice. In particular, older mice have more cells that are implicated in runaway immune responses (neutrophils, orange), fewer “helper” and “killer” T-cells that can be trained to go after new threats (CD4 naive, purple; CD8 naive, pink), and fewer cells that clear away both viruses and inflammation (Alveolar macrophages (Mϕ) green). These trends carry over to humans, beginning to explain why older patients with respiratory viral infections such as influenza and COVID-19 are more likely to experience excessive and harmful inflammation. Credit: Wen group, University of Michigan.

Engineering immunity: Profiling COVID-19 immune responses and developing a vaccine

As COVID-19 looks more like a disease of the immune system, a Michigan engineer is working with doctors to look at how immune responses differ between mild and severe cases. | Medium Read

First measurement of electron energy distributions | Medium Read

$5.2M for digital twins of nuclear reactors could bring down nuclear energy costs | Medium Read

Two new devices protect health care workers, help patients during COVID-19 | Medium Read

Campus & Community

The summer sun rises on North Campus of the University of Michigan

Perspective: It is past time

'We cannot remain silent: Black Lives Matter!' | Medium Read

Advancing creativity and mentorship in engineering education | Medium Read

What COVID-19 shows about race and health | Medium Read

Engineering faculty among Provost’s Teaching Innovative Prizes | Short Read

Faculty Perspectives

Portrait of Alec Gallimore

Perspective: We’ll get through this together

In a letter to the College of Engineering, Dean Gallimore champions the community's leadership and compassion as students, faculty and staff take on COVID-19. | Short Read

How much coronavirus testing is enough? States could learn from retailers as they ramp up | Short Read

Medical supply chains are fragile in the best of times and COVID-19 will test their strength | Short Read

Autonomous vehicles can be fooled to ‘see’ nonexistent obstacles | Short Read

We’re doing ethanol wrong

Give Earth [another] chance

50 years after the first Earth Day, the next generation is rewriting the rules.

Submerged

When a Soviet nuclear submarine went missing during the Cold War, the United States launched a secret CIA operation to recover it. As alumni on the mission explain, the engineering challenges almost seemed impossible.

A View Beyond

A personal tour through what Hubble has shown us.

Aspiring Selves

Sumeyra Emre has many roles, with each competing for her time. But she refuses to give up any of the identities that make up her whole self.

Business Insider May 20, 2020

You probably won’t catch the coronavirus from swimming. It’s the crowds on the beach that matter.

CEE Associate Professor Krista Wigginton explains that risk factors for outdoor activities are mostly dependent on crowd size and density.

MLive.com May 29, 2020

Michigan launches web portal allowing employees, employers to track coronavirus symptoms

MI Symptoms web app built by University of Michigan is detailed in MLive.

The Hill May 28, 2020

An affordable zero-emissions grid needs new nuclear

In an op-ed, Todd Allen, the Glenn F and Gladys H Knoll Department Chair of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, explains nuclear energy's role in the 21st century.

In the News May 8, 2020

Engineering talent shortage a ‘critical bottleneck’ for eVTOL industry, says VFS

Carlos Cesnik, the Clarence L (Kelly) Johnson Collegiate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, is quoted in eVTOL.com.

history

Five year plan: The North Campus story

Ed Lesher: Aircraft Hall of Famer

LASIK: The Bladeless Scalpel

Q&A with Samuel Ting

A photograph of the Lurie Bell Tower.

A row of caution tape surrounds the recreation area on North Campus on May 29, 2020. The caution tape separates students, staff, and faculty from using the volleyball courts and swings in light of social distancing recommendations and regulations across the state of Michigan. |more »