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U-M Law Student Awarded Fellowship for New Americans
University of Michigan law student Rana Thabata has been awarded a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a program that provides financial support to immigrants and children of immigrants.
A…
University of Michigan: 12 Faculty Members Named as AAAS Fellows
Twelve University of Michigan faculty and staff members have been recognized as 2023 fellows for their extraordinary achievements by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific…
U-M Engineering Professor Honored with Ellis Island Medal of Honor
Radar technology trailblazer and University of Michigan engineering professor Kamal Sarabandi is among this year’s recipients of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
The prestigious award recognizes individuals for excellence and service to…
Study Shows Climate Change Will Boost Value of Residential Rooftop Solar Panels Across the US
Climate change will increase the future value of residential rooftop solar panels across the United States by up to 19% by the end of the century, according to a new University of Michigan-led study.
The study defines the value of solar,…
University of Michigan Celebrates Hopwood Award Winners
The University of Michigan’s Hopwood Program announced its 2024 graduate and undergraduate winners of the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing and other writing contests administered by the Hopwood Program.
More than 100…
University of Michigan: AV Challenge Offers Engineers Opportunity to Test Decision-Making Algorithms
The University of Michigan has issued a challenge to the developers of autonomous vehicle technologies: show us what you’ve got.
The Mcity AV Challenge will pit researchers in academia and industry against each other, measuring the…
New Chemical Tool Sheds Light on Pathways Utilized by Dopamine, Opioids, and Other Neuronal Signals
University of Michigan researchers have developed a new tool to better understand how chemicals like dopamine and epinephrine interact with neurons.
These chemicals are among a wide variety of signals that get processed in the brain…
Study Shows Squirrels Reap Benefits Later in Life from Food Abundance, Offset Early-Life Adversity
If a person has a high-quality, late-life environment, it can mitigate the negative impact caused by early-life stressors, a new study shows.
Researchers determined this human outcome after analyzing data from more than 1,000 wild red…
Global Science Team Unveils Vast DNA Tree of Life for Flowering Plants
The most up-to-date understanding of the flowering plant tree of life is presented in a new study published today in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists, including three University of Michigan biologists.
Using…
University of Leeds Unearths Unpublished CS Lewis Poem in Special Collections
A forgotten poem by Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis reveals details of friendships between fantasy writers and medievalists at the University of Leeds.
The 1935 poem, ‘Mód Þrýþe Ne Wæg’, was among a bundle of documents sold to the…