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Affordable lead sensor for home, city water lines

Citizens could become water quality watchdogs and monitor lead contamination at their own taps with new electronic sensors. | Medium Read

Stem cells mimic key parts of human embryonic development

The method advanced by U-M cell biologists and engineers could aid the understanding of infertility and more. | Short Read
Student tests assistive software

Designing for our own

CSE students designed technology for a fellow student who returned after a decade away because of a brain hemorrhage. | Medium Read
Videos

A Scaffold For Growing Lung Organoids | Michigan Engineering

Touring Mcity in a Driverless Car - 360 video

Michigan's Ladder Mill

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Research News

$7.75M for mapping circuits in the brain

A new NSF Tech Hub will put tools to rapidly advance our understanding of the brain into the hands of neuroscientists. | Medium Read

Heat-conducting plastic could lead to lighter electronics, cars | Medium Read
‘Missing lead’ in Flint water pipes confirms cause of crisis | Medium Read
Lab-grown lung tissue could lead to new cancer, asthma treatments | Medium Read
Campus & Community
Precision health pioneer named to MIT Technology Review innovator list

The national magazine recognized Jenna Wiens among its 2017 35 Innovators Under 35. | Short Read

New grad program: Engineering Education Research | Medium Read
Election security: We must start preparing now for 2018 | Short Read
How self-driving cars can be safer with connected technology | Medium 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

Innovation Is for Finishers

Many researchers are hoping startups will help get their ideas to the marketplace— and universities are trying to help.

In the News
NBC August 1, 2017
Ford Motor Co. says it’s first automaker to test autonomous vehicle
Ford releases video of autonomous vehicle testing at Mcity.
NBC August 7, 2017
Why this year’s ‘dead zone’ in Gulf of Mexico is bigger than ever
Don Scavia, Director of Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute, is quoted.
Wired August 7, 2017
Puny humans still see the world better than self-driving cars
Brandon Schoettle, Project Intermediate Manager at the U-M Transportation Research Institute, is the author of a new paper about the subject.
Scientific American August 1, 2017
Should the world tap undersea methane hydrates for energy?
Eric Kort, CLaSP assistant professor, led a 2012 Nature study that indicated methane fluxes there are similar to those on the Siberian shelf.
bicentennial web project

The Michigan-Coulter Partnership: Accelerating Translation

LASIK: The Bladeless Scalpel

Michigan Engineers: Elite Astronaut Corps

Wood Walks to Work: The One Who Stayed

Photography
A photograph of a researcher holding vials.
Researchers are now able to visualize tumors better by using photo-acoustic imaging. |more »