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Eyke holds the kirigami in hand

Kirigami sensor patch for shoulders could improve injury recovery, athletic training

Low-cost sensors could one day enable patients to log exercise and track progress in a smartphone app | Medium Read
Fibronectin network with cells.

Patient cancer cells reliably grow on new 3D scaffold, showing promise for precision medicine

While previous structures guessed at the environment that cells would want, the new design lets the cells build to their own specifications. | Medium Read
Two iterations of a metal lattice meet at a “grain boundary” defect, with atoms of an alloying element fitting into the defect. Illustration by Liang Qi, Computational Materials Science Group, University of Michigan

Hard as ceramic, tough as steel

Newly discovered connection could help with designing nextgen alloys. | Medium Read
Videos

Solving the Sun's burning mystery

Open-source bionic leg aims to rapidly advance prosthetics

Developing curriculum for decentralized water systems

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Research News
Surgeons operating

How opt-out organ donation could affect U.S. waiting lists

A lack of consent plays a role in preventing donation from up to 40% of otherwise eligible donors. | Medium Read

Using lasers to measure uranium enrichment | Medium Read
The “Magic Ratio” that could power tomorrow’s solar cells | Medium Read
Rewriting the rules for supercomputers | Medium Read
Campus & Community
Members of the solar car team make final touches to the vehicle
‘Electrum’ solar car from U-Michigan takes on global competition in Australia

Team bets on revamped electrical system in the outback. | Medium Read

Defining the past, propelling the future | Medium Read
University of Michigan launches Michigan Materials Research institute | Medium Read
Becoming the representation she wishes she’d seen | Medium Read
Faculty Perspectives
A crack in the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica, taken by helicopter. Ice shelves near both of the planet's poles are disintegrating at unexpectedly rapid rates. Photo by Jim Behrens. ​
Why sea level rise models have been wrong

A Q&A with Jeremy Bassis, an expert on ice dynamics and contributing author of the IPCC's latest report. | Short Read

What’s really behind baseball’s home run surge? | Short Read
Commercial supersonic aircraft could return to the skies | Short Read
Climate change is driving rapid shifts between high and low water levels on the Great Lakes | Short Read
A View Beyond

A personal tour through what Hubble has shown us.

Features
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.

Solve for life

Racing to unlock the equations that could save the Amazon – and us all.

Change or be changed

In its startup days, Duo Security brought a punk-rock ethos to tech security and stuck up for the little guy. Now that the company is worth billions, will it be even better – or will it change its tune?

Built By Humans. Ruled By Computers.

The great and terrible consequences of an algorithmic world.

In the News
Time September 19, 2019
Trump says cutting regulations is good for business. But his new battle on car emission standards could hurt the auto industry
CEE professor Peter Adriaens says the Trump administrations efforts to cut auto industry regulation could diverge the US and global market.
Forbes October 1, 2019
Pre-checked cookie consent invalid, EU court rules
A study detailing cookie practices co-authored by EECS-CSE professor Florian Schaub is cited in Forbes.
Michigan Daily September 30, 2019
University Professors talk using AI technology for bipolar disorder
Associate CSE Professor Emily Mower Provost is collaborating with other U-M researchers to develop computational methods for measuring mood symptom severity in bipolar disorder.
The New York Times September 26, 2019
‘A planet full of ifs’: young people express climate angst
CLaSP professor Richard Rood tells New York Times about the anxiety spurred by climate change lectures.
history

Five year plan: The North Campus story

Ed Lesher: Aircraft Hall of Famer

LASIK: The Bladeless Scalpel

Q&A with Samuel Ting

Photography
A head-on view of a small, Cessna plane in a hanger, as female undergraduate student propping her self above the windshield by standing on the left wing strut, performing a pre-flight inspection.
A computer science student preps a Cessna to fly over Ann Arbor as a member of the Michigan Flyers, a non-profit flying club with roots back to the 1920s. |more »