Category: Campus & Community
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STEM education: A taste of research for K-12 teachers
The REACT workshop pairs U-M researchers with K-12 science educators to introduce primary school teachers to new laboratory science and classroom-friendly activities.
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Michigan Life Sciences Fellows program offers mentorship, resources
The Life Sciences Fellows program gives early-career researchers a chance to launch independent research utilizing University of Michigan expertise.
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A second place finish for U-M Solar Car Team
‘I look at my teammates now and they’re hungry and they‘re fired up and when the next race comes they’re going to be ready.’
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Choosing a hard question in soft matter
Mike Solomon is an AAAS fellow for his contributions in colloids and is the new dean of Rackham Graduate School.
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U-M’s top-ranked Solar Car Team readies for race on Oregon Trail
The 2018 American Solar Challenge will be a real test for a young team.
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Q&A with Mingyan Liu
The incoming electrical and computer engineering chair talks about her vision for the future.
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Todd Allen named next NERS department chair
Todd Allen has been named the new Glenn F. and Gladys H. Knoll Department Chair of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences (NERS) effective 1 January 2019.
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Bolder ideas are the heart of new high-impact research funding programs
The novel approach enables aggressive research exploration
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Reflections on Telle Whitney Dow Lecture
We want all people, everywhere, to be at the table creating the technologies that will change our lives.
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Volker Sick receives president’s international education award
EXPERT As a young researcher at the University of Heidelberg in his native Germany, Volker Sick worked with universities and schools in several different countries, which helped him understand the value of collaboration between people with different experiences and viewpoints. “When I came to Michigan 21 years ago, I had that experience with me and…
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Nuclear know-how
Alumna Hon. Kristine Svinicki serves as chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), where she helps to shape U.S. nuclear policy, ensuring that safety concerns are rationally addressed.
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Unicorn vs. cyber-pirates
Duo Security is the Ann Arbor-based information security and software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that alumni Dug Song and Jon Oberheide co-founded. It recently reached $1 billion in valuation—a unicorn, in tech parlance.