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Nanoparticles could spur better LEDs, invisibility cloaks

More efficient household LEDs and invisibility cloaking are two possible applications for a new process that adds metallic nanoparticles to semiconductors. | Medium Read

Harnessing light to drive chemical reactions

The mechanism transferring light energy from capturer to catalyst is explained, paving the way to design better reactions that use less energy and produce less waste. | Medium Read
Novum solar car

Solar Car Team goes small to win big at World Solar Challenge

Meet Novum: a long, skinny, single-fairing solar car | Medium Read
Videos

Connected, Autonomous Cars | A Driverless Future

Michigan's Ladder Mill

Space Weather Modeling Framework

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Research News

How self-driving cars can be safer with connected technology

Mcity demonstrates the powerful pairing of connectivity and automation. | Medium Read

How self-driving cars can be safer with connected technology | Medium Read
‘Magic’ alloy could spur the next generation of solar cells | Medium Read
Airborne nuclear tests can mimic solar storms | Short Read
Campus & Community
New grad program: Engineering Education Research

New program turns a researcher’s eye on engineering education in the service of better teaching, learning and diversity at U-M and beyond. | Medium Read

Election security: We must start preparing now for 2018 | Short Read
Jerome Lynch named chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Short Read
Joanna Millunchick named associate dean for undergrad education | Short Read
Faculty Perspectives
If we stopped emitting greenhouse gases right now, would we stop climate change?

Richard B. Rood, CLaSP professor, discusses the current state of climate change. | Medium Read

Antarctic iceberg: Researchers explain what might happen next | Medium Read
Why emojis might be your next password | Medium Read
Will President Obama’s clean energy legacy endure? | Long Read
ORACLE TEAM USA's AC45 catamaran uses hydrofoils to "fly" above the water.
Racing for Control

With glory – and danger – on the line, precision engineering rules the day.

Features
Into the Storm

Revealing a Hurricane's Secrets

Courage to Resist

High-Stakes Adventures of J. Alex Halderman

Fighting Cancer Wrong?

It’s Not Usually the Initial Tumor That Kills

Unstoppable

Grad Student Becomes a Published Researcher

In the News
The New York Times July 10, 2017
Michigan’s new Motor City: Ann Arbor as a driverless-car hub
Mcity has emerged as a one-of-a-kind, living laboratory for the driverless technologies that will pave the way.
In the News July 10, 2017
Here’s exactly how Russia can hack the 2018 elections
J. Alex Halderman, EECS professor, testified in June before the Senate Intelligence Committee about voting machine security. VICE news reports.
MLive.com July 10, 2017
U-M Solar Car Team unveils latest design for world competition
The University of Michigan Solar Car Team unveiled its latest vehicle at the Michigan Theater on Friday, July 7.
Forbes June 21, 2017
University of Michigan will get first autonomous shuttles in fall 2017
Beginning in fall 2017, students and staff at the University of Michigan will have a new way of getting around at least part of the sprawling campus, a pair of driverless shuttle vans.
bicentennial web project

Wood Walks to Work: The One Who Stayed

Propulsion Compulsion: From Apollo to PEPL to Mars

Solar Energy Lab: Ahead of Its Time

Micro Lifesaver: Lab-On-A-Chip

Photography
A photograph of a student using a virtual reality engine.
You can now augment the reality you live in with a state of the art augmented reality engine that’s available for students and faculty to understand principles and concepts on deeper levels. |more »