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Four emerging leaders at Michigan Engineering recognized by White House
The honorees’ work advances materials for clean energy and load-bearing applications, graph theory, and healthier cultures in engineering education.
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Boosting AI model size and training speed with lightwave-connected chips
AI growth is capped by data transfer rates between computing chips, but transferring data with light could remove the ceiling.
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Ice Aces
By learning from Arctic frogs, fish and beetles, a DARPA-funded project aims to reimagine life in the cold.
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New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals
Cutting acid and base treatments from conventional desalination plants could save billions of dollars globally, making seawater a more affordable option for drinking water.
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‘Unprecedented’ level of control allows person without use of limbs to operate virtual quadcopter
Brain-computer interface can enable people with paralysis to socialize with others, participate in remote work and enjoy recreational activities.
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Culture of Accessibility Project Team Highlight
The Culture of Accessibility team is working to make the College a place everyone can thrive.
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$5M to improve testing, durability, and noise levels of wave energy devices and offshore wind
The research could make offshore renewable energy more reliable and a better neighbor to marine life, also enabling laboratory testing of larger prototypes.
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Light, flexible and radiation-resistant: organic solar cells for space
Some carbon-based solar cells already show no drop in performance after three years’ worth of radiation, and the cause of degradation in others could be preventable.
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Key highlights from the 2024 IE3 conference
Not one, but two transformative conferences in 2024
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Twisted Edison: bright, elliptically polarized incandescent light
Filaments curling at the micro- and nanoscale produce light waves that twirl as they travel.