U-M's Center for Entrepreneurship and Mobility Transformation Center have launched TechLab, an incubator and interactive learning project where students work with startups on driverless car technology development.

Levi Thompson, CHE and ME professor, discusses the uses of energy storage technologies like flow batteries and nanomaterials in the Great Lake Echo.

Stephen Cain, Assistant Research Investigator, Mechanical Engineering, and his colleagues have been studying what separates novice bike riders -- those folks you see wobbling uncomfortably down the street on a CitiBike -- from the more skilled riders who go whizzing past them.

Max Shtein, MSE associate professor, discusses how he and his colleagues are focusing on photovoltaic cells and developing better ways to have them track the Sun in American Scientist.

Max Shtein, MSE professor, discusses how solar panels inspired by Japanese paper cutting could make energy generation 35% more efficient than traditional stationary panels.

U-M’s Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory (PEPL) has partnered with Phase Four to help provide detailed characterization of the fully-integrated flight unit of the CubeSat Ambipolar Thruster (“CAT”). Story from Parabolic Art.

Gillian Henker and Carolyn Yarina, engineering alums, helped in the creation of the Hemafuse, an electricity-free autotransfusion device that lets doctors reuse a patient’s own blood, in a sterile way, when they’re hemorrhaging.

Peter Sweatman, director of U-M's Mobility Transformation Center, discusses the $2.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy and how they will partner with two laboratories to study whether driverless vehicles could help people drive more efficiently.

HV Jagadish, EECS professor, discusses the potential consequences of using big data to predict crimes.

James Holloway, UM vice provost for global and engaged learning, says "“UM is transforming its educational environment so that every student can have a high-impact engaged learning experience. The growth in education abroad provides us with another means to achieve this goal."

UM researchers, along with Google and University of Illinois researchers, published a recent research paper that analyzes the security of email delivery.

Stephen Bougher, CLaSP professor, and his team released findings showing that Mars's atmosphere is more complex and dynamic than scientists had thought.