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Into the Storm
Revealing a Hurricane's Secrets
The most turbulent region of a hurricane holds secrets about its potential for destruction. Michigan Engineering’s newly launched satellite system can reveal how these storms intensify in a warming world.
Are We Fighting Cancer Wrong?
It’s Not Usually the Initial Tumor That Kills
Chemotherapy. Radiation. Surgery. Doctors go after the tumors that they can see. |Long Read
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Courage to Resist
The High-Stakes Adventures of J. Alex Halderman
In the escalating struggle between the individual and the state, technology favors the powerful. That's why this Michigan computer scientist and his team of researchers revel in righting the balance. |Long Read
Innovation is for Finishers
Getting Research to the Marketplace
Entrepreneurs are helping universities deliver on the promise that taxpayer-funded research will drive economic growth, and lately, universities are doing much more to help them succeed. |Long Read
Unstoppable
One graduate student’s journey to becoming a published researcher.
While faculty steer the ship, graduate students are the engines that drive university research. |Long Read
From the Edge of the Arctic
The Arctic is frozen but melting, vulnerable but hardy.
At the top of the world, the climate is changing fast. A Michigan Engineer tracks the planet’s vital signs. |Long Read
Hacking Health Care
How big data is driving big changes in medicine
Jenna Wiens, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at U-M, might add extra years to your life, thanks to one of her algorithms. |Long Read
Exam Week
The Lights Never Turn Off
The air wafts through the stacks of books, thick with the smell of greasy and stale food, clothes that have been slept and worn through for days on end, and the bodies that begrudgingly live through this existence. |Long Read
Skunk Works
Kelly Johnson to the Rescue
Though the urgency for the Shooting Star might have been exaggerated, the Nazi threat, coupled with Johnson’s peculiar characteristics, was perhaps the only way such a unique operation might ever have been formed in the first place. |Long Read
The Wrestler
Balancing Olympic Training and Astronaut Ambitions
In between problem sets, design projects and exams this academic year, the rising star trained for Olympic tryouts. |Long Read
Lights Out
A Dramatization of Disaster and the Science Behind It
Eighteen hours before the power went out, scientists reported an enormous solar flare. |Long Read
An Unlikely Partnership
It seemed like a simple project to help a village get clean water. Things aren’t always as simple as they seem.
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. |Long Read
