Category: Campus & Community
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Making a Middle Class
Can engineering education lift Ethiopia?
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Jeremy Bassis
Jeremy Bassis, an assistant professor in Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, studies glaciers both past and present to better predict the future of the ice sheets over Greenland and Antarctica – and the implications for humans.
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Sara Pozzi
Sara Pozzi learned about the Manhattan Project in middle school and it sparked a lifelong fascination that has shaped her career.
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Joerg Lahann
University of Michigan Biointerfaces Institute director Joerg Lahann knew from a young age that he wanted to be a chemist.
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Christopher Ruf
Ruf directs the Remote Sensing group at Michigan, building instruments and developing algorithms that give us information about earth’s weather and climate collected from vantage points in space.
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High-tech robotics center coming to U-Michigan
The U-M Board of Regents approved the College of Engineering’s new robotics building project on April 16. The three-story, 100,000-square-foot facility is slated for Hayward Street just east of the Space Research Building on North Campus.
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Lecture offers a planetary scientist’s tour through the solar system
The son of Hungarian Holocaust survivors, Tamas Gombosi took an unlikely path to his post as an eminent space scientist at U-M.
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True Believers
By Randy Milgrom In the streets and at the Diag, flags and banners fly. In the dormitories, at fraternities and sororities, in random houses and apartments—and inside and outside the bars and restaurants—teeming crowds roam with charged expectation. All around town, and all across campus, students thump to a bass-heavy beat. “Game Day,” laughs Samantha…
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Life, Engineered
She’s been called the hidden hand in the movement that enabled smartphones, PCs and the very fabric of Silicon Valley.