Category: Features
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We’re doing ethanol wrong
Is there a way to get biofuels right?
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A view beyond
The Hubble Space Telescope has been capturing breathtaking images of the cosmos since the early 1990s, and for most of that time, Thomas Griffin (BS AOSS ’78, MS AS ’80) has been working behind the scenes at NASA to help keep the observatory fully operational. Here he chooses his favorite Hubble images—from a detailed close-up…
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Aspiring selves
In the final year of her biomedical engineering PhD, Sumeyra Emre is a dedicated researcher, growing mother, wife and partner, proud Muslim woman, and aspiring role model.
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Change or be changed
Written by Colin Barras and Josh Walker In August 2018, technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. announced that it had agreed to pay $2.35 billion for the Ann Arbor-based startup Duo Security. The acquisition was reported to be the biggest of its kind in Michigan history. But even before the announcement, Duo had been breaking state records.…
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Built by humans. Ruled by computers.
In the world of humans, Brian Russell is a regular blue-collar guy. Stocky with a shaved head, black-rimmed glasses and a tightly trimmed Van Dyke, he pulls down steady hours at his job installing security systems. Every night, he drives his old green Jeep home to a freshly planted subdivision of modest ranch houses outside…
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Putting the AI in aviation
Persuading a field to face its future
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Ripple effect
What’s happening in Detroit, with the help of the Michigan Engineering Zone, may help solve Michigan’s economic manpower problem.
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The threat that never sleeps: Can science stop superbugs?
They never released the woman’s name. News articles and government reports that came out in early 2017, months after her death, referred to her as “a Northern Nevada woman,” “a female Washoe County resident,” or something similarly vague. Her killer, however, they didn’t miss that: Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Parse through those vowels and you’ll dig out the reason…
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Creating better engineers
Why do smart students fail and how do social systems influence their success? Understanding mentorship and community to create engineers.
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Q&A with Samuel Ting
Samuel C.C. Ting received the Nobel Prize in 1976, with Burton Richter, for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. He is the principal investigator for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment on the International Space Station, a $2 billion project installed in 2011. Here, Ting (BS ’59 Eng Phys, Eng Math, MS ’60 LSA, PhD ’62 LSA)…
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How to disrupt
A tech visionary who has reinvented industries tells us how it’s done