Tag: Global Impact
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Co-design with the community? Study provides insights on building trust
How and when community stakeholders are engaged shapes participants’ perceived value, learning and progress according to an assessment of a co-design workshop series.
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Did You Feel It? Expanding use of an earthquake crowdsourcing tool
The platform that rapidly maps earthquake damage can collect more global shaking intensity observations by supporting more languages and increasing social media traffic.
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‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies
Censored Planet is releasing technical details for other researchers and for activists.
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How Russia’s online censorship could jeopardize internet freedom worldwide
The nation is using inexpensive commodity equipment to block 170K domains on more than 1K privately-owned ISPs.
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Nuclear nonproliferation: $25 million for new tech and developing the security workforce
Many nuclear engineers who work in national security are headed for retirement. This initiative helps make sure we don’t drop the baton.
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‘Carbon negative, dollar positive’
A new initiative aspires to turn a greenhouse gas into profitable products.
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International Antarctic glacier study focuses on sea level changes
Bi-national study involving UM researcher will aid predictive models.
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Building a Stronger Haiti with Chocolate
Meet the Michigan Engineer who walked away from a six-figure career to help farmers and create jobs, building Haiti’s first bean-to-bar chocolate operation in her hometown.
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Destination Cuba
Over spring break, 2017, 22 Michigan Engineering students participated in one of the first technical interactions between a U.S. university and Cuba since the thawing of relations.
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New restrooms help demonstrate urine fertilizer concept
The nation’s first end-to-end urine diversion demonstration system opened, a step toward more sustainable and cost-effective fertilizer and wastewater treatment.
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Hurricane tracking satellites successfully launched
NASA has successfully launched a constellation of eight hurricane-tracking microsatellites in a $151 million mission that’s led by the University of Michigan.