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$1.3M to improve urea fertilizer production and reduce CO2 emissions
Rather than contributing to emissions, the production of an essential fertilizer could consume carbon dioxide, and a U-M team will explore such a method.
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$18M to advance materials research for quantum computing, sustainable plastics and more
New center builds a campus-wide ecosystem for designing and manufacturing materials of the future at U-M while training a more representative workforce.
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Amit Misra to lead Michigan Materials Research Institute
A leader in materials science and engineering, Misra looks to build on the Institute’s early impact.
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$27 million for laboratory astrophysics and nuclear fusion, led by U-M
Two centers, supported by the National Nuclear Security Administration, will explore physics relevant to modeling the performance of the aging nuclear weapons stockpile.
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Mingyan Liu named associate dean for academic affairs
Liu hopes to foster collaborative and innovative problem-solving among faculty from different disciplines.
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U-M’s space design and manufacturing draws second round of support from DARPA
Without the constraints of building on Earth, engineers look to expand the capabilities of what space structures can do.
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Nanobiotics: AI for discovering where and how nanoparticles bind with proteins
A new tool in the fight against superbugs goes beyond protein folding simulations like AlphaFold, potentially revealing antibiotic candidates.
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New apps for visually impaired users provide virtual labels for controls and a way to explore images
With VizLens, users can touch buttons while their phones read out the labels, and Image Explorer provides a workaround for bad or missing alt text.
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Driving solutions for all
Karl Iagnemma and wife Ann-Kristin Lund continue to support equity-centered engineering initiatives.
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$7.5M to harness atomic-scale defects for next-generation information processing
Disruptions in a material’s atomic structure could act as “nano-pipelines” for efficient transport of charge and spin.