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Jessica PetrasOctober 25, 2022

Senior hires stand out in an impressive year for faculty hiring

The cohort of 36 new tenured and tenure-track faculty includes 11 faculty hired at the rank of professor or associate professor.

Dan NewmanOctober 17, 2022

How evolution overshot the optimum bone structure in hopping rodents

Bones that are separate in small jerboas are fully fused in large ones, but the bone structures that are best at dissipating the stresses of jumping are only partially fused.

Kate McAlpineSeptember 6, 2022

Walking and slithering aren’t as different as you think

New mathematical model links up slithering with some kinds of swimming and walking, and it could make programming many-legged robots easier.

Zach RobertsonJuly 29, 2022

In the news: Michigan Engineering experts July 25-29

Highlights include CNN and Popular Science.

Zach RobertsonJuly 22, 2022

In the news: Michigan Engineering experts July 18-22

Highlights include The New York Times and National Geographic.

Kate McAlpineJuly 1, 2022

‘Fake’ data helps robots learn the ropes faster

A way to expand training data sets for manipulation tasks improves the performance of robots by 40% or more

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