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What the first fatal collision between an autonomous car and a pedestrian reveals about how software reads the road

April 3, 2018
The tragedy of the first person killed by an autonomous vehicle points to a potential vulnerability with the nascent technology now being tested on the open roads: While robo-cars, powered by sophisticated sensors and cameras, can reliably see their surroundings, the software doesn't always understand what it detects.
A simulation of the landing .

Sticking the landing on Mars: High-powered computing aims to reduce guesswork

As the Mars 2020 launch approaches, a separate effort is using simulations to understand landing dynamics for tomorrow's missions. | Medium Read
MORPHEUS blocks potential attacks by encrypting and randomly reshuffling key bits of its own code and data twenty times per second. Getty Images.

MORPHEUS vs. Everybody

DARPA pitted 500+ hackers against this computer chip. The chip won. | Medium Read
A student holding a MiTEE cubeset

Pioneering a way to keep very small satellites in orbit

More than 250 students had a hand in a satellite scheduled to launch on January 17th, the first in space for a project to keep nanosats in orbit by harnessing Earth’s magnetic field. | Medium Read

Learning to build accessible software systems remotely via Zoom

Measuring how dental procedures aerosolize particles to limit the spread of COVID-19

Hurricane forecasting satellite CYGNSS also monitors water over land.

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Research News
The view through the polarizer shows where light-twisting structures have formed in a soup of cells and biological materials

Light-twisting ‘chiral’ nanotechnology could accelerate drug screening

A new approach makes liquid-crystal-like beacons out of harmful amyloid proteins present in diseases such as Type II diabetes. | Medium Read

Wastewater treatment at one-third the size and cost | Medium Read

Video conference CO2 emissions quantified in new study | Medium Read

Touchless respiratory and heart rate measurement for COVID-19 health screening | Medium Read
Campus & Community
Students meeting virtually for class

‘Solving for equity’: A Michigan Robotics course flips the script on engineering ed

ASEE Prism magazine explores how linear algebra could level the playing field. | Medium Read

U-Michigan professor appointed to FDA medical device security post | Medium Read

Engineering seeks to educate on societal racism, bias through new proposals | Medium Read

A DEI culture shift | Medium Read
Faculty Perspectives
Mario Gutierrez consults Prof. Lola Eniola in a lab

Black biomedical scientists still lag in research funding – here’s why that matters to all Americans

In The Conversation, Omolola Eniola-Adefeso says "If science is to benefit all Americans, science first must be done by all Americans." | Short Read

Bendable concrete and other CO2-infused cement mixes could dramatically cut global emissions | Short Read

Investments in nuclear energy could help solve the economic and climate crises | Short Read

Strategies to help support students during a pandemic | Medium Read
In the News
Wired February 24, 2021
How planes keep flying after an engine catches fire
Aerospace professor Ella Atkins explains why planes can remain in the air after one of their engines fails.
Crain's Detroit Business February 24, 2021
Ann Arbor drug company Asalyxa hauls in $2 million seed funding round
Chemical engineering professor Lola Eniola-Adefeso's University of Michigan spinout company is featured in Crain's Detroit Business.
ASEE Prism February 3, 2021
Solving for equity
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins and Jesse Grizzle are featured in ASEE Prism.
EdScoop February 3, 2021
‘Mynerva’ teaching platform lets professors design the perfect lesson
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Raj Nadakuditi's new teaching platform is featured in EdScoop.
history

Five year plan: The North Campus story

Ed Lesher: Aircraft Hall of Famer

LASIK: The Bladeless Scalpel

Q&A with Samuel Ting