Category: Campus & Community
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Joyce Penner
Penner develops mathematical and computer models to help us better understand what how aerosols and clouds interact and how that affects the climate.
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Michigan in Monterrey
University of Michigan alumni and representatives networked with colleagues from University of Monterrey (UDEM), one of the best schools in Mexico.
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From the Edge of the Arctic
At the top of the world, the climate is changing fast. A Michigan Engineer tracks the planet’s vital signs.
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The Michigan Probe: Changing the Course of Brain Research
Some believed early Michigan brain researchers were engaging in “science fiction” – until development of an advanced tool for forging breakthroughs proved them wrong.
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‘The most interesting tech IPO of the year’ was founded by alums
A Q&A; with the Michigan Engineering alumni who founded Twilio, a “unicorn” in the tech industry.
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A giving family
Carlos Quintanilla and his family empower students to give back to their communities.
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An Unlikely Partnership
Three University of Michigan students, members of an engineering student team called BLUElab, have come to Chaguitón to learn more about the village’s reported water problems and perhaps design a solution.
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Out of the #Flood
In the face of disaster, a city’s social media is saving lives and infrastructure. Is this just the beginning for crowd-sourced salvation?
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$3M upgrade complete at leading lab for emulating radiation damage
With new equipment that makes it the best in the world for quickly recreating the radiation damage sustained by materials inside nuclear reactors, the Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory (MIBL) marked its grand re-opening yesterday.
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HOW THE NET WAS WON
The ARPANET came before it. And the World Wide Web and browser technology would later make it accessible for the masses. But in between, a small Ann Arbor-based group labored on the NSFNET in relative obscurity to build—and ultimately to save—the Internet.
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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.